Mythweb upcoming recording Activate failure

[otto at kolsi dot fi]

A recording is scheduled normally but later the EIT data changes and the starttime is changed to be 5min later. Now MythWeb Upcoming Recordings page shows that this show will not be recorded but offers the Activate button to record it anyway.

If Activate is pressed MythWeb produces Fatal Error (see attachment).

[Rob Smith]

Hrm, Can one of the EIT guys weigh in on how this all works?

[danielk]

The EIT updates the program table + the scheduler reschedules. It's the same as if mythfilldatabase had been run so it is not really EIT related except that it probably happens more often if you have EIT data collection enabled.

[otto at kolsi dot fi]

This issue should be possible to reproduce with following steps:

• schedule recording with "Record only this showing" -option
• go to DB and manually modify starttime to be 5min later for that show
• do "mythbackend --resched"
• go to MythWeb's Upcoming Recordings -page
• you should see that program as "Deactivated"
• press the "Activate" (currently I get only blank page, not sure if I've disabled error pages or what..)

[Rob Smith]

otto,

Myth stores recording info as chanid + starttime, so if the starttime changes, it won't match and won't record anymore. Perhaps the EIT scanner could be made to update recording schedules when it updates showings?

In anycase, I can't fix the lack of recording matches, but I'll fix the error page that happens.

[otto at kolsi dot fi]

Replying to kormoc:

In anycase, I can't fix the lack of recording matches, but I'll fix the error page that happens.

Yeah, more controlled error page is fine (if it is not possible to disable/remove the Activate button when activation is not possible?).

[Rob Smith]

(In [17585]) Fixes #4186, this uses a standard error message rather then a fatal error when the schedule can not be found for a recording activation