I've not had this happen since buying the Aura last November. Last night the Aura recorded two identical recordings on C5 HD. The schedule was for 7pm - 8pm and was in a series record. Both recordings are an identical length and each plays back the same. A BBC TWO HD programme from 6.30pm - 7pm, also in a series, recorded properly. No other recordings were scheduled until 9pm.
Although this incident is no big deal, I'm curious as to how it could happen.
I imagine that this is entirely coincidental but I was watching a previous recording (last night approximately 830) and, when it finished and went back to the recordings list, my 4000t was indicating that SC's Grand Day Out (5HD) was being recorded twice (two identical lines with record icon). However, only one version exists on the hdd.
I've also had this occurring a couple of times lately on my Aura. They do seem to be two distinct recordings, as I can delete one without affecting the other.
Likewise it's not a major problem, but I'm equally curious about it.
Question: Is this only happening with C5 HD or with other channels?
I had this on CH5 when recording Bargain Loving Brits
I thought it was due to a CRID data error as one series ended and a new series started the following week. Initially the new series was not picked up with the original timer, so I set it as a new one, but then a few days later the original timer that was showing blank also set up the new timer.
I saw this before it was due to start so I cancelled the original timer
Last night my Aura recorded two copies of Pointless on BBC One HD. Again, they were identical in every respect and each could be deleted without affecting the other. I noted that Pointless started a different (Repeated) series than the one showing last week, although I hadn't had to change the scedule. After the recordings were completed I powered down the Aura and after about 20 minutes, powered it back up again.
I've seen this several times on different channels and cannot establish any pattern to it. It seems completely random.
Next time it happened I was going to have a look at the duplicate files via the FTP server, download them, and see if any of the metadata is different (if I can read anything), but of course its not happened to me recently.
This has only happened to me sometimes when I use the app to set a recording
I had a duplicate recording of the BBC1 One O'clock News. I had noticed a few days earlier that there was a spurious recording in my schedule of recordings for a single episode of the One O'clock News in a few days time. I have the News as a series recording and I can't conceive that I had knowingly set the single episode recording. I left the spurious recording and it did indeed generate a duplicate recording. It might be worth other people who are seeing instances of this problem keeping an eye on the schedule of future recordings to see if spurious recordings in the schedule are the cause. Then the question would be how they are getting set.
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