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<blockquote data-quote="SVoyager" data-source="post: 1228120" data-attributes="member: 136983"><p>Thanks a lot MM for the excellent explanations!! I couldn't have asked for better. Its not the first time I ask questions and you always provide great info, extra donation sent!</p><p></p><p>It makes a lot of sense now, I wasn't aware that the guide would change at the last minute like that but now that I think about it, I believe I had on a few occasions a program that I wanted to watch live, only to have something else at the time but with the guide having updated correctly with the new change. So it is a good practice indeed.</p><p></p><p>I have a few suggestions. I do understand there are limitations and I understand that they might be too complicated to implement or does not make sense to do so, wouldn't make sense to rewrite everything for these hehe but still it does not hurt to mention them:</p><p></p><p>1- Would it be possible to make the check for a duplicate recording just before sending the warning about the recording that is about to happen. I believe we have about 1-2 minutes of a warning. Perform the check right before that time? That would eliminate the "false positives". I like that I get the warnings but for me, 95% of them are false positives.</p><p>Or when you said that the guide could change at the last minute, you actually really meant the very _last minute_ ? Surely 1-2 minutes ahead, right before the popup would be fine??</p><p></p><p>2- This one is probably impossible / too complicated / too many risks. Would it be possible to have control over the actions of detected duplicates. Say, remove schedules of duplicate programs if the last check of the guide shows no change within the last 24 hours of the planned recording (with a check of the guide at configurable intervals, 12 hours, daily etc). Or maybe just an option to perform a check and simply remove duplicates with a warning about guide changes. Its a bit complicated, there might be a better way to do this. I am just throwing the idea here!</p><p></p><p>Another side effect of duplicate in the guide is the fact that if I wish to record something new, I will get a warning of conflicting recording and since those are mostly false positives for me, I tend to ignore that and schedule the recording anyway. This has the possible effect of actually losing a genuine recording but I can't know for certain as most of the time, they are false positives.</p><p>----</p><p></p><p>As for the NAS, yeah I could keep it running but right now it goes on standby when it is not used. Its not just the drives that are spinning down, the whole system goes on standby. Its probably on standby 75% of the day. When I am off to work for example.</p><p>I am just used to the fact that spinups are the most stressful event in a drive's usage, thus the concern. But I agree, this setup has been running for many years and no sign of issues with them, so that might not be worth for concern.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for the help and I am sure I speak for a lot of people here in saying that your time spent in working with this project and also providing support is invaluable!! (well my meager donation might help a little (sorry it was the best I could spare right now)).</p><p></p><p>Cheers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SVoyager, post: 1228120, member: 136983"] Thanks a lot MM for the excellent explanations!! I couldn't have asked for better. Its not the first time I ask questions and you always provide great info, extra donation sent! It makes a lot of sense now, I wasn't aware that the guide would change at the last minute like that but now that I think about it, I believe I had on a few occasions a program that I wanted to watch live, only to have something else at the time but with the guide having updated correctly with the new change. So it is a good practice indeed. I have a few suggestions. I do understand there are limitations and I understand that they might be too complicated to implement or does not make sense to do so, wouldn't make sense to rewrite everything for these hehe but still it does not hurt to mention them: 1- Would it be possible to make the check for a duplicate recording just before sending the warning about the recording that is about to happen. I believe we have about 1-2 minutes of a warning. Perform the check right before that time? That would eliminate the "false positives". I like that I get the warnings but for me, 95% of them are false positives. Or when you said that the guide could change at the last minute, you actually really meant the very _last minute_ ? Surely 1-2 minutes ahead, right before the popup would be fine?? 2- This one is probably impossible / too complicated / too many risks. Would it be possible to have control over the actions of detected duplicates. Say, remove schedules of duplicate programs if the last check of the guide shows no change within the last 24 hours of the planned recording (with a check of the guide at configurable intervals, 12 hours, daily etc). Or maybe just an option to perform a check and simply remove duplicates with a warning about guide changes. Its a bit complicated, there might be a better way to do this. I am just throwing the idea here! Another side effect of duplicate in the guide is the fact that if I wish to record something new, I will get a warning of conflicting recording and since those are mostly false positives for me, I tend to ignore that and schedule the recording anyway. This has the possible effect of actually losing a genuine recording but I can't know for certain as most of the time, they are false positives. ---- As for the NAS, yeah I could keep it running but right now it goes on standby when it is not used. Its not just the drives that are spinning down, the whole system goes on standby. Its probably on standby 75% of the day. When I am off to work for example. I am just used to the fact that spinups are the most stressful event in a drive's usage, thus the concern. But I agree, this setup has been running for many years and no sign of issues with them, so that might not be worth for concern. Thanks again for the help and I am sure I speak for a lot of people here in saying that your time spent in working with this project and also providing support is invaluable!! (well my meager donation might help a little (sorry it was the best I could spare right now)). Cheers! [/QUOTE]
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