What am I doing wrong here? I get "Waiting for EPG running flag" and it's "recording" but not really

Wim K

Hi,

I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what.

When I set pre- and postpadding and program a show and the time is past the start of the prepadding time but it's not past the EPG-starttime of the program, tvheadend as well as Kodi say it's being recorded, but it's really not. I get "Waiting for EPG running flag", what does this mean? Which setting do I have to change?

I have Tvheadend 4.1-1933~g7f24603 on a Pi2.

Thanks in advance for the help,

Wim

mpmc

"Waiting for EPG running flag" is For eitp/f ("Use EPG running state" in the DVR Profiles), if you don't use it/have it, disable the option.

Wim K

Hi Mark, thanks for the response. But it's already diasbled.
What I think is strange, is that it says "being recorded" whilst it isn't actually.

mpmc

Have you tried setting debug to +all (for both trace, and subsystems)?

Wim K

Ah, yes, forgot about that.

There seems to be a problem, but I don't know what this means:

2016-06-11 13:14:34.685 mpegts: HDHomeRun DVB-C Tuner #0 (192.168.2.13) - HDHomeRun DVB-C Tuner #1 (192.168.2.13) - linked input cannot be started (active1: 210)
2016-06-11 13:14:34.685 subscription: 5516: "DVR: LifestyleXperience" subscribing on channel "RTL 4", weight: 300, adapter: "HDHomeRun DVB-C Tuner #0 (192.168.2.13)", network: "Ziggo", mux: "356MHz", provider: "Ziggo", service: "RTL 4", profile="pass"

Wim K

I've got it. I think.

The EIT time offset of the network (Ziggo) was still set on UTC. I now put it on local (server) time and now it does start before the beginning of the show and after the prepadding starttime. I think the recording started when the EPG-starttime was reached.

But I think this is not logical that pre- and postpaddingtimes have to be in the correct timezone while epg-data doesn't.

(I did notice another problem, but will post about that in another thread if I can't figure it out myself).

Thanks for the help.

Wim

Wim K

Well, while the above solved the problem starting at the right time but the recording stopped at the epg end-time, not after the post-padding.

"Use EPG running state" was not set in the DVR Profiles, but in the advanced settings of all of the channels. After disabling these, it works ok now.

Wim

Wim K

Wim K wrote:

> The EIT time offset of the network (Ziggo) was still set on UTC. I now put it on local (server) time and now it does start before the beginning of the show and after the prepadding starttime. I think the recording started when the EPG-starttime was reached.

Yesterday I completely reinstalled tvheadend because I ran into problems I couldn't solve otherwise.

I now have Tvheadend 4.1-2298~ga54db94.

Before, I had to set network time to local (server) time to have the correct EPG-time.

But now, when I set the network time on local (server) time, EPG is wrong and when I set network time on UTC it's correct. I guess something has changed in the code, but imho local (server) time should give the same EPG data as UTC. Am I wrong?

Wim