larkim - 18 mins ago »
Was struggling to work out why we couldn't get the World's Strongest Man final and done Only Connect specials to show they were recording in the EPG and think I've drawn a conclusion that others could test.
For both series we had chosen to record entire series for the "seed" programmes and the series were recording ok. But the EPG showed no indication that the specials were recording too. On selecting from the EPG the programme didn't indicate it would record, but pressing record brought up the choice of record this one or whole series.
However if viewed the scheduled recordings list the programmes were showing, and the individual episode page also showed it was recording. I'd upload screenshots but the faintly ridiculous file size restriction on images here is a bit too much of a faff to sort out on my phone!
As far as I can tell the issue seems to be that the programme name changed (e.g. added "grand final" to the WSM) compared to the original series name.
It's not a bug. It's entirely down to the broadcaster.
Simple explanation. Basically it's controlled by the two basic CRID codes that the broadcaster transmits to control series and accurate recordings,
When you set a series recording from the epg. The epg is scanned for the series code (CRID) and the first one it finds in the epg. This also has a programme CRID. If one with the same series CRID is found before the one you set the series from. That is the name of the series folder. After recording it looks for a second different programme CRID that has the same series CRID and a different programme CRID. If it has a different programme name. then the folder gets remamed.
Simple example ITV transmitted a whole series of Bond movies. All with the same series Crid, Everytime a new bond movie is added the folder name changes.
When you add the series number CRID to the mix that on freesat takes president then the the recording order becomes a mess.
And the file size restrictions are entirely sensible.
Modern mobile phones can take really high resolution photos way larger than a 1920 x 1080 pixel monitor can display and designed to allow very large printed high quality images. Most HD monitors have a max resolution of 72dpi. High quality prints start around 240dpi.
They can be many MB in size compared to the text which is tiny. My phone takes over 8 MB images. Some even take 4K images.
You need to learn some of the basics of image editing. Photograph images with settings suitable for where they are going to be used
Copy the images to a PC and resize them to a sensible size or set your phone to take photographs around a max size of 1280 x 720p pixels.
Google how to do this resizing on a PC or Mac. Even the free photo editing capability on PC's and macs have this capability. If you want to upload photos of friends or add them as attachments to e-mails you will need this skill.
| Sat 2 Jan 2021 21:02:38
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) showing two different status when clicked through from different views. As a user, that is confusing and should be coded around. If the absence of an "R" is common to all Freeview Play EPGs then this isn't an Aura bug, but if other FreeviewPlay devices handle this correctly then I'd say it was most definitely a bug.
