Recording missed b/c "not available," "no longer in guide"

It is because the Rovi guide data decided to remove huge chunks of data last week. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do but hope TiVo can straighten the guide data issue out. However it may take years to perfect.

 

Because there are a lot of different providers, guide data and mistakes therein, is going to be different in different areas. Until TiVo/Rovi gets its act together, all we can do is vigilantly review our todo lists to make sure things are scheduled properly.

 

For a few weeks now I've had channels removed by Tivo because of a "channel lineup change" but the channels didn't change. I had to Tivo Central>>Settings & Messages>>Settings>>Channels>>Channel List and then manually re-select the channels. Unfortunately now the Channel Guide doesn't show what is playing it only says "To be announced".
Pretty sad and very lame.

 

The guide data was removed for pretty much everyone. However, whether it was fixed in time just depended on the time of your TiVo's last daily connection that day. So it was completely random who was affected by the bug.

 

I've had this happen and I believe (at least in my cases) it was caused by typos in the guide data for the particular episode. The episode that was "no longer in the guide" was actually still visible in the guide and was marked "new". However comparing the "bad" episode to one for the next day (that did record) I see funny differences in the top lines. For example the bad episode has a subtitle that is a date about 6 months ago, while the good episode has no subtitle at all.

 

The times I've seen it happen on my various TiVo's, it's been because the show changed start or end times.
90% of the time the show still recorded, but with the new start time or duration.

I think it's happening when the guide data updates, and if the update is really close to the start time of the show, it sees the "old" show not there anymore, but doesn't see the "new" one in time to record it if the data hasn't been indexed that far yet.


phox

 

That wasn't the case with the BBT last week. The issue was the To Be Announced all over the place was affecting CBS: "To Be Announced" all over the place

 

Yep, this was the same TBA bug we saw before. They really need Rovi to start getting their act together.

 

the recordings are forced over to the "new" channels, and p being skipped because o "no signal" original channel is fine, but no guide data and cannot record channel unless it appears in their guide.
Basically bricked my roamio OR A, as only PBS channels are still recording.
700 bucks in New equipment to cut the cord, and this unreliable @@
p is what I GET?

 

I Just noticed 3 ABC shows did not record the last 2 weeks. Last Man Standing, The Middle and Modern family. I have no idea why, all weeks previous had recorded. Roamio on Comcast.

Next weeks show for Last Man Standing is 2:37 am in the guide. Somehow I doubt this for a new prime time show.

 

Usually when a show is preempted locally, the station will show it late at night. My guess is your local ABC station preempted network shows for something else.

 

Around here, the local Fox affiliate's channel just--disappeared. It doesn't exist. This happened sometime in the past week.

Its subchannel does, but not the main channel.

I went to tvguide.com and confirmed that. Tivo doesn't have it in the lineup at all.

 

Call letters?

 

Sorry. 43214, channel 28, WTTE. OTA 28.1.

Check it out on tvguide.com to confirm.

 

No reason you shouldn't get it. Someone sent TiVo a request and screwed things up for you. It transmits on physical 36. If you check tv.com, there are three OTA selections for your zipcode. Selecting Delaware shows 28.1, the other two Cleveland/Columbus and Columbus do not. Screener has it also. I guess you need to tell TiVo. Report a Lineup Issue

 

You da man. On top of it. Thanks.

 

Same thing again today. The show in question airs live everyday but the info for the missed episode has a subtitle that is a date several days ago. It is still marked new in the guide but doesn't record on the one-pass. I keep sending complaints to lineup@tivo.com but don't get any response, not even an acknowledgement.