Strange Recording quirk

[steelerzz]

I seem to be have a real hard time with the PVR recording feature on the Buzz5 beta version.
I am now able to record a tv program,  but for some reason, any and all of any program I record, no matter the duration of it, be it a half hour, 1 hour or more,
the recordings all complete and stop recording at the 00:30:05 min mark, so ony half an hour gets recorded.
I have two different service providers, and have tried recording on both, and the same results happen for both.
Any ideas.

[nbs.]

Are you recording from epg? One button or scheduling an hour

[steelerzz]

from epg,

one button, not scheduiling

[nbs.]

sounds like you may need to schedule it The guide might be breaking it up

ill do some testing too later

[steelerzz]

have you tried the recording testing yourself yet?

[nbs.]

I've had no issues in the past but I will try epg recording tonight I've set one now for 9-10pm

[dishuser]

I set a recording from 8 until 9 plus extra 5 minutes

only got 36 minutes

I even checked channel at 55 minutes and rec was on

[dishuser]

I just scheduled back to back 30 minute episodes

see what happens with that

 

[steelerzz]

A friend of mine has had same issues as all of us when recording from the EPG, and he has a therory that perhaps may help solving this issue.

What she has noticed is that the EPG is broken up in time blocks of half hour segments, and for that reason, when using the “one button set” record method, the “buzztv5 beta” code won’t or can’t  instruct the PVR to record a whole program but only that block of 30min visible on the EPG!
 

The recording function works fine when manually scheduling a time duration separating, so it seems to be an EPG & coding instruction issues.

any thoughts, any possibility?

[dishuser]

I have one button record off

also set extra recording off

Edited February 24, 2022 by dishuser

[dishuser]

also when recording starts it's like I long pressed power button even though remote isn't near me

[nbs.]

the box appears for me when the recording is about to start

I reported it

18 minutes ago, steelerzz said:

A friend of mine has had same issues as all of us when recording from the EPG, and he has a therory that perhaps may help solving this issue.

What she has noticed is that the EPG is broken up in time blocks of half hour segments, and for that reason, when using the “one button set” record method, the “buzztv5 beta” code won’t or can’t  instruct the PVR to record a whole program but only that block of 30min visible on the EPG!
 

The recording function works fine when manually scheduling a time duration separating, so it seems to be an EPG & coding instruction issues.

any thoughts, any possibility?

if the epg is broken down into two half hour episodes you have to do two recordings

thats how it should be if recording from epg

Edited February 24, 2022 by nbs.

[dishuser]

11 minutes ago, nbs. said:

the box appears for me when the recording is about to start

I reported it

if the epg is broken down into two half hour episodes you have to do two recordings

thats how it should be if recording from epg

that's how I did it the first time but only got 30 seconds of second episode

trying again and made sure extra time was set to off

[dishuser]

so second episode just started and got the box again plus it changed to the channel I'm recording

[dishuser]

as soon as I changed channel recording stopped

[allaboutbuzz]

On 2/22/2022 at 6:39 PM, steelerzz said:

I seem to be have a real hard time with the PVR recording feature on the Buzz5 beta version.
I am now able to record a tv program,  but for some reason, any and all of any program I record, no matter the duration of it, be it a half hour, 1 hour or more,
the recordings all complete and stop recording at the 00:30:05 min mark, so ony half an hour gets recorded.
I have two different service providers, and have tried recording on both, and the same results happen for both.
Any ideas.

Were now aware of this issue

It seems to only happen when scheduling recordings through the EPG

If you schedule them manually this doesn't happen

 

We will fix it.

[Dave J]

I realize this is an old thread but I am having the same issue (running on ver .706). I can't seem to get any recordings longer than 30 minutes. Have tried both secondary and default players, power options live TV and default, box standby or on, on selected channel, EPG and manual recording. With manual I tried both 45 and 1:15 minute settings but no luck.  One button record is always set to off. I hadn't been able to really test this until the power option was fixed, but I know I've recorded in the past and it did work. Just not sure if that was before the beta. 

[Dave J]

Did a hard reset this morning and re-did my PVR tests again. Regardless of the settings, I can't record anything longer than 30 minutes. Can someone offer any suggestions?

[bgrigori]

On 3/2/2022 at 1:53 PM, allaboutbuzz said:

Were now aware of this issue

It seems to only happen when scheduling recordings through the EPG

If you schedule them manually this doesn't happen

 

We will fix it.

Did a hard reset of my XRS4500 (running BuzzTV 4) yesterday, the update installed BuzzTV 5, now not able to record more than 30 mins anymore, as described by others in this thread. Tried first through EPG, then read allaboutbuzz post from Mar 2 and tried manual recording. The recording stops at 30 mins every time. The box is on, Live TV is on the channel I want to record. Any word on that fix?

[allaboutbuzz]

On 5/6/2022 at 6:42 PM, bgrigori said:

Did a hard reset of my XRS4500 (running BuzzTV 4) yesterday, the update installed BuzzTV 5, now not able to record more than 30 mins anymore, as described by others in this thread. Tried first through EPG, then read allaboutbuzz post from Mar 2 and tried manual recording. The recording stops at 30 mins every time. The box is on, Live TV is on the channel I want to record. Any word on that fix?

Were testing Firmwares this week for 4500s and 4900s with this fixed.

[Dave J]

After running a few tests the recording issues I had with the PVR are resolved,  however when scheduling a delayed recording the box no longer comes out of standby to record the program. This was working previously.  

[nbs.]

What buzz version?

[Dave J]

5.0.714

[trupillo]

Before the latest update my scheduled recordings worked for 2 hours I had scheduled 

It now it stops after 30 minutes !

[dishuser]

I just finished a recording that was 2 hours and 9 minutes long

it recorded the whole program