Failing timers

[csutak40]

I have a feeling this has happened once before, but searching hasn't found anything. I apologise if I have asked this before.

This is more a please explain, than anything, as I seem to have "fixed" it.

I haven't been watching T2 all week, and just discovered that all the timers since last Sunday have failed. So, I tried an instant recording, and that worked. I then discovered that the recording scheduled for this morning didn't fail (although it seems to be listed twice, FWIW but only recorded once)

So, apparently doing the instant recording fixed what ever was ailing it, but would still love to know what it was

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Hmm. Viewing the "preview" it seems to show one of my attachments twice, but don't know how to fix it as it is only listed once. Also, this note is showing in between the two attachments instead of at the bottom, where I am writing it

[Grumpy_Geoff]

In the timer list, select one of the failed timers and press INFO to view the timer's log entries. What does it list?
I'm guessing it'll say not enough disk space.

I'm further guessing you left the T2 showing live TV so timeshifting used up all of the available space.

I seem to recall you've been here before.

[csutak40]

You are right, of course.
Also right that I vaguely now remember (the memory ain't the best)
So, I went to disable time shift, as it is not needed ever on the T2, but it looks to me that it is already disabled.
The way I use the T2 is as a sleeping pill. I have a timer on it that turns it off, unless I touch the remote within an hour. So, live TV is probably going.
Is there any setting there I should change?

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Same problem with the attachments. Wonder what I'm doing wrong?

[Grumpy_Geoff]

So, I went to disable time shift, as it is not needed ever on the T2, but it looks to me that it is already disabled.
The way I use the T2 is as a sleeping pill. I have a timer on it that turns it off, unless I touch the remote within an hour. So, live TV is probably going.
Is there any setting there I should change?

That looks okay to me. If you still have the Power Timers to auto-standby/auto-deep-standby then they're all you need.

I think you've just run out of space on that disk.
You've got 49 recordings. Is it still the 120GB SSD you had previously? (edit: of course you do, it says so in the media listing )

Also check the Trash directory one level higher in the recording structure (so /media/hdd/.Trash).

[prl]

There's only one error that will set a timer to failed state: if the drive the timer wants to record to has less than 1024MB available when the recording is about to start.

The media selection screen shows 9682MB available, but some recordings had been made since the last failed recording, so presumably some cleaning-up had been done in the meantime.

Running with less than 10% free space on a relatively small disk is really asking for problems like this. 10GB is only about 5 hours or so of recording time.

Time for some drive spring cleaning, perhaps