So it sounds like the moral of the story is SD is working properly, the guide data provider is working properly, but the local stations are providing bad data. Any of the 'fixes' discussed are only band-aids to mask that problem, and will not work if the original broadcast is indeed preempted for so...

The problem is the first airing tag is being used incorrectly. Who sets this? Is this directly from the broadcaster? From the data provider? SD?

Are you looking at the extracted data after the TS packet headers have been stripped or the raw file data in a hex editor? Wondering if you're just seeing the sync byte for the next packet. Good catch, it was indeed on the sync byte. This makes 100% of the metadata the same between the two files, o...

To add some more data points, my DVR recorded S17E16 twice from the same channel. Once on 3/28 when the original showing was on, then again on 3/30. The DVR clearly knew the original air date according to the name, yet still it recorded. The This Old House Hour S17E16 20190328 [20190330-1300].mpg Th...

And, at the risk of making people hyperventilate, the channel number and network should not matter. Who cares if the show is on CBS or ABC? What you care about is the show, not the random distributor. When Brooklyn 99 changed channels, did it suddenly become better or worse? The only reason it woul...

I Also see this behavior on my FireTV, unable to schedule any recordings.

Mine records that show twice on the same channel occasionally, so removing secondary channels may not even help. We're at the mercy of the guide data and how SD determines what to record in the cloud.

I see the same thing. This is likely the result of the provider marking them all as first run when that is clearly not the case. You can verify this by checking the metadata in the recordings. The DVR doesn't apply any additional smarts to figure out that the show is indeed the same by the episode n...

I remember reading a post advertising Nate's blog, but it's of course been purged.

Neat! I love the openness of SD on this. But I'm a little confused as to why post this now. Won't this post be cleaned up/deleted by the time you can actually buy these?

Coming from an XBMC background, this definitely makes sense to me. I'll be sure to list it in feature requests. I would argue this is absolutely the wrong approach regarding engineering resources. There is already a way to request the recorded metadata and serve the content which is documented (the...

The problem is in order to stop a recording you have to throw the server out the window. This. Want to record the state of the union? No problem, discover and select record.(I think the discover page is great BTW) Except it's on like 50 channels, and I don't like the one it randomly picked. Tried t...

It completely depends on the signal level and equipment you have on what you can get away with. I have Comcast with fiber to the house, which means RFoG and only about 50' of copper. I have an 8 way splitter and still have more than ample signal. An amplifier would make things much worse. My last ho...

For Comcast, if you're not using any of their boxes you should get a $2.50/mo credit when using a cable card. I've had this credit long enough that it's just about paid for the prime by itself. https://www.xfinity.com/equipmentpolicy EDIT: I was curious, so I went back and checked. I bought my prime...

Now, we could up the connection to a 1Gbps one, but again, you're adding 6 months to development. And adding to the cost of the product for what is almost certainly a corner case use. A manufacturer has to ask itself: "Will this feature draw enough additional customers to make the investment worthw...