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.... when the computer running the server goes to sleep. Is this normal behavior? What happened was I was not watching TV on the client, watching a movie instead from a different server. The computer with serverWMC went to sleep and shortly after a notification popped up on my client saying a bunch of shows were deleted. Kind of freaked out. After I calmed down I looked on that hypc and seen all the shows were still there.
Is this just normal behavior when xbmc PVR manager looses a connection to the recorded TV database? It doesn't find them so it assumes they are all deleted. So will it be doing a complete import every time I startup my client? Not that big of an issue just a little distracting if I have to see that every time I watch a movie and my server htpc sleeps.
Got to say again, you guys are doing a kickballs job with this addon! Thanks.
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Yeah its normal. I have never been too clear on what it is referring to when it says 'recordings are being deleted'. I've assumed its timers that it knew about that are now in the past after it wakes up, so it deletes them from its database - but I'm not sure that's right. This is not something our addon is doing, its xbmc itself.
Rest assured serverwmc/xbmc has no ability to auto-delete a recording. The only time it can delete a recording is if you tell it to in the recordings display.
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There is an xmbc setting to turn off notifications on timer updates.
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Testing my understanding: you say you are watching a movie in your library, I assume this movie is not stored on your swmc machine, so that machine goes to sleep after a while from inactivity, then you switch to live-tv but the swmc doesn't wake, right?
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That's right. Movies on whs2011 machine. SWMC on HTPC. Client on HTPC 2
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So I think the easy way to fix this is to have swmc not let its machine go to sleep if detects any clients online. That should do it, right?
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If that could be done without making it a sleep blocker when clients are offline, I think that would be ideal.
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Yeah, it won't to that. I have already written some code that does this for another program. I will try to get it into the next rev - all I have to do is find it.
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I've had this happen to me as well the past few days.
The weird thing is I've set my server to never go to sleep. It's when the client awakes from sleep that I notice this.
All of my future recording timers are "deleted", and nothing is shown in my recorded TV folder. If I schedule a new recording from the client, all of a sudden it "finds" all of the other timers and imports them. I can't see anything in my recorded TV folder until a new show begins recording.
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JazJon,
It should be here:
Settings > Live TV > Recording >'Display a notification on timer updates'
LSU Jonno,
I haven't heard of this before. It sounds like when the client wakes up it has dumped all of the livetv info it cached. When you set a new timer its getting it all refreshed. Did you disable the pvr database in xbmc?
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I don't think so. I'll check tonight and take better notes when it occurs.
