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gtwundke

To me this suggests there wasn't an EPG entry for "Alone" for the evening of the 21st, because that timeslot was occupied by an X-Files episode, which had a generated timer (at the time) - {873}< 30.440> [RecordTimer] Record RecordTimerEntry(name=The X-Files, begin=Tue Sep 21 20:20:00 202...

gtwundke

There are 3 x X-Files now on 21/9 afternoon; but only 2 in your timers listing plus the 1 in the evening. That evening event has now has been replaced with "Alone" it would appear. Ahh, you may have inadvertently hit upon where that timer was created! There are actually 3 X-Files events o...

gtwundke

Timers set for - 1013 - SEVEN 19:20 - 20:51 3202 - SBS 20:20 - 21:45 1010 - ABC 20:22 - 21:55 1014 - TEN 20:30 - 22:00 4 tuners required for time period 20:30-20:51. You only have 3 tuners available. Thus *any* timer addition/modification would've thrown up the timer conflict screen; even if perfor...

gtwundke

I never use OpenWebif (I only used it above to do the AuoTimer preview, as I don't think there's any way to do that on the box itself). There is. It's even called "Preview". You'll find it descrbed in the FAQ - "A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers" . Yep, you're right....

gtwundke

Are you creating all these problems using OpenWebif? My guess would be that the normal PVR user interface only ever calls the underlying API with a fairly sane set of arguments that won't cause issues. On the other hand, it looks like OpenWebif does some unexpected stuff and may be using the same u...

gtwundke

So, I haven't had the same issue occur again: I'm still only getting 1 conflict for the Monday, and new timers are now being added as expected. So, I don't know what caused the error in the first place. There was another bit of strangeness when I re-added the 'Alone' AutoTimer -- the timer showed up...

gtwundke

So, based on the debug log, I removed the conflict that seemed to be causing all of the issues by deleting the "American Dad" AutoTimer and all related timers. That seemed to do the trick, and everything is working again. Well, the Wiz can't tune to 4 broadcast networks concurrently if yo...

gtwundke

prl wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 16, 2021 15:54
An unusual proposal in the circumstances

I have certain ... ahem ... expectations when it comes to reading my posts!

gtwundke

So, based on the debug log, I removed the conflict that seemed to be causing all of the issues by deleting the "American Dad" AutoTimer and all related timers. That seemed to do the trick, and everything is working again. I've added a new AutoTimer, and it now shows that there's 1 conflict...

gtwundke

A day or so ago I tried to add a new AutoTimer, but the results screen showed that there were 2 conflicts (for the 2 timers that should have been added). There were definitely no actual conflicts, so I played around with the AutoTimer settings a bit (exact match, specific bouquets/services etc), but...

gtwundke

I was just mulling over this release a while ago, and there really aren't that many significant user-facing changes in this beta vs the last official. I know lots of effort has gone into improving the overall experience, but a lot of that can be summarised by an entry like "Improved reliabilit...

gtwundke

I'm not opposed to your idea. I think it makes a lot of sense. However, I am sceptical about it actually working in practice. I certainly don't want to make it a policy and spend my time enforcing it. I understand, although from my experience it just becomes ingrained after a while (although I stil...

gtwundke

I think your suggestion was understood, but it is not feasible given the development model in use. I actually think that it's far easier for you guys than most open source repositories. You have limited users making changes, and in general there isn't much time pressure in terms of merging changes....

gtwundke

It's already there. Use File Commander to view /etc/e2-git.log to see changes to enigma2 and /etc/oe-git.log to see changes to the underlying operating system. A few users tried to roll together user friendly changelogs in the past, but it's in the too hard basket. At the end of the day, PVR users ...

gtwundke

I've attempted to do that in the past in the form of forum posts, but it's quite hard. You're welcome to try. Yeah, but that's exactly the problem, it was being done at the point of release, rather than as a part of the development process itself. Anyone who commits code to the repository should be...

gtwundke

It would be super helpful to add some type of changelog that is made available to users (i.e. within the GUI) when an update occurs. I don't think it needs to be actively shown to users when an update occurs, but rather can just be accessed from the menu. Or perhaps a 10-second dialog is shown after...

gtwundke

To be perfectly honest, I'd be entirely happy if there was an option to turn off all of that information from the front panel display. I've never once looked at it for information, as it's just too small and too far away. Maybe there's scope for multiple more nuanced options, in terms of what gets ...

gtwundke

Definitely front panel related deadlock issue. Piecing some of the clues together, it looks like there are three players involved. The recording indicator, the scrolling of a front panel message (one that is too long for the display) and an update of the front panel icons as a demux is being freed....

gtwundke

Hmm, maybe something has changed that is making this more frequent, as it has happened again just now. I'm on the latest beta firmware (updated this morning).

Here's the debug log and /var/log/messages.

gtwundke

Looks like 19.3-20210826.0 beta that has not been update to the latest version. I also notice that you are using OverlayHD. Please test for the issue after a USB reflash and without installing any additional plugins that are not already in the USB image. Yeah, I haven't yet installed today's beta u...

gtwundke

I've just had my U4 freeze (spinning wheel of doom on screen) two times in fairly quick succession, requiring a reboot via ssh each time. This happens probably a couple of times a month for me, but today is the first time that it has happened twice in a day. It always happens when I'm just changing ...

gtwundke

If you configure EPGRefresh to clear the EPG prior to the refresh, for a lot of services it only seems to fill in the EPG for the channel that it scans, rather than the entire set of channels on that service ( service may not be the correct terminology, but hopefully you know what I mean). I was pl...

gtwundke

As far as O() speed numbers go, flushing the cache then filling it isn't any faster than just re-filling the cache, though it may be a little faster, because the fill from empty should never have to delete any entries, and deleting all the entries in bulk may be faster than deleting them one at a t...

gtwundke

Well actually, openshop was devoid of guide data. Rivers of tears - "cleanup crew, bucket and mop to aisle 9 please" . I'm sorry for your loss...! I'm wondering if your experience was because you were tuned to a particular provider at the time EPGRefresh was to visit it and therefore no r...

gtwundke

I gave you a test scenario. Yeah, it's a good call. I really should have raised the problem here at the time, as now I have no idea whether it's still a problem or not. But sometimes there's only so much effort that I'm willing/able to put into my PVR :) The opposite, don't enable it. Umm, done :D ...

gtwundke

There isn't a point for its use on Beyonwizes and for Australian conditions (either with the broadcast EPG or with IceTV). Its intended use is for people that use some other network EPG on the device and convert it into the format of the epg.dat file. That will then allow the PVR to pick up newly l...

gtwundke

The EPG cache code is big and complicated, but it seems to me to be pretty robust (and I've worked on it, including on making a "complete fill" of the EPG run on O(N log N) time rather than O(N^2) time. Its main problem is that it can't represent cases where the time span of two programs ...

gtwundke

It shouldn't be any different. Here's a test - Open the IceTV plugin and enable IceTV. Then disable it. Your EPG will now be devoid of data. Don't zap live TV. Open the EPGRefresh plugin and tell it to "refresh now" (I think it's on the YELLOW tab). Let it run (hopefully you've got it set...

gtwundke

That was never my experience. For the "fake recording" option, EPGRefesh just uses streaming of the service to enable the guide data gathering. Well, my point is that if you've never turned on the "Clear EPG before running" option, then you'll likely never know whether it's work...

gtwundke

I haven't used EPGRefresh for a long time. When I did use it, I never used the "clear EPG" option so I'm not familiar with it. I was really just wondering whether it might be a good option to clear out any potential cruft in the EPG before refreshing (e.g. "have you tried turning it ...

gtwundke

Service refers to what is shown on a specific row on the EPG (ie. ABC News is a service, ABC HD is a different service). A Channel, or broadcaster is that whole MUX (multiplex) of services (ie. ABC is a channel, Seven is a channel, etc) You need to be tuned to a service for around 30-60 seconds, af...

gtwundke

The code looks like the "Online update available" message box is a SuspendableMessageBox (define in Components/OnlineUpdateCheck.py), and it should not prevent shutdown. I mean, I can't say for sure that the dialog is the issue, but it has been a consistent factor. Not sure if there's any...

gtwundke

Disable online update check under: ‘Menu > Settings > Software manager > Configure update check > Background check > disable’. (can be disabled in OWIF under: ‘Settings > Online update check settings > Background check > untick Background check’). This will stop the available f/w popup from coming ...

gtwundke

peteru has previously posted he's not keen to have a time out on that "Online update available" prompt. I'd guessed that there must be a reason for it, given that it's one of the only dialogs without a timeout, but I'm still not a fan :) The "wakeup to standby" Power Timer will ...

gtwundke

What's the chance of getting a timeout on the "An update is available" dialog for the next release, because I think it's causing my beyonwiz to not shut down after waking to run EPG Refresh? I'm not entirely sure if that dialog is the cause, but a couple of times I've been away for a week ...

gtwundke

You got unlucky and triggered an obscure bug in the way the front panel display icons are updated. Unfortunately the U4 driver tries to be clever and updates the icons based on various heuristics, which at times can lead to a deadlock. It's a U4 only bug and very hard to reproduce. It was probably ...

gtwundke

I thought the "functioning" log manager was fixed/introduced in the 19.3 series firmware. Are you sure the logs were wiped? The code was all there, just not being called, so I added the calls myself locally. I assume that's all the fix in 19.3 did as well. So yeah, the logs are indeed gon...

gtwundke

You'd have seen it from me though :) I've had it on our T2 and U4. I believe it's a wonky (USB) driver sucking up the memory. I defend against it now in my enigma2 pre-start script - https://www.beyonwiz.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=13169#p178593 Ahh, awesome Geoff (and adoxa)! I'll give t...

gtwundke

I can't find any other posts from you about this. Nope, I've never bothered as it has happened pretty infrequently and never been a major issue as I've always been around to fix it at the time (and to be honest, sometimes the thought of having to write a post on here is just too much trouble). The ...

gtwundke

Hi all, Three weeks ago I was interstate for a week, and came back to find my U4 running but non-responsive. Looking at the recordings, this seems to have happened on (I think) the Wednesday evening. Unfortunately I didn't think to look at the logs to see what had happened (it was a long week). I ha...

gtwundke

Then you browse to the twundke/easy-ui-4 repo on Bitbucket and issue a pull request against beyonwiz/easy-ui-4 - there should be no need for any special permissions. Ahh, having very rarely had to use pull requests, it would seem that I was trying to start the pull request from the beyonwiz-owned r...

gtwundke

I've made a couple of changes to the code in Bitbucket (and also raised a couple of related Issues), but don't have the required permissions to create Pull Requests on the easy-ui-4 repository. What's the process for getting those permissions?

Tim.

gtwundke

I know it's been quite a while since I posted this, but I just wanted to confirm that this issue has been fixed with the latest update that came through the beta feed (probably a month or so ago now... I've only just got around to testing it).

gtwundke

Well, after much (much!) faffing around, I've finally managed to get enigma2 to dump a core file (although having just now worked out to do remote debugging, kinda wish I'd discovered that first!). Obviously, without debug symbols, the backtrace is not as useful as it might otherwise be. Still, here...

gtwundke

After reading this topic I was concerned that the current version of VidCoder 3.16 (64 bit) I have, which is based on HandBrake, could also cause a crash. So using the H.265 MKV 720p30 preset in the up to date version of VidCoder 3.16 (64 bit) which is based on HandBrake 1.1.2, I encoded gtwundke’s...

gtwundke

Hi Glen, Beyonwiz is using Gstreamer 1.15.0. The latest build is 1.14.4. (The 1.15.x series is a development branch while the 1.14.x series is the maintained / updated production code.) I tried to find what the latest 1.15.x series build was but didn't find it in the time I had available. It appear...

gtwundke

Glad I saw this. Just checked the stuff I had been reencoding over the holidays (the free up space on my NAS). No of it works. All okay on my PC though. Sorry to hear that Glen! I'm glad that I just happened to want to watch the first thing that I encoded with the new version, and so saw the issue ...

gtwundke

I can confirm that ScrubsTest-1.2.0.mkv crashes my test U4. Thanks for the confirmation Peter. The information in the crash log is meagre, but the final line says that the cause of the crash is a SIGSEGV (signal 11), which means that the program accessed a location that's outside of the program's v...

gtwundke

I've successfully used Handbrake v1.1.x to create MKVs with HEVC-encoded video for quite a while now. All of these files have played fine on my U4 (running the latest Beta firmware). However, a week or two ago I noticed Handbrake v1.2.0 was out and updated it. Now, whenever I play a HEVC-encoded vid...

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