No recording conflict check on search (1 Viewer)

[echoing]

TV-Server Version: 1.0.2
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.2
MediaPortal Skin: XFace
Windows Version: Windows XP Pro Eng SP3
CPU Type: AMD Phenom 3-core 2.3 GHz
HDD: Seagate 1.5 TB SATA
Memory: Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 2GB (2x1024)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H
Video Card: Asus GeForce 8600GT 256MB GDDR3 Silent
Video Card Driver: 6.14.11.7813
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio
Sound Card AC3: Optical
Sound Card Driver: 5.10.0.5694
1. TV Card: Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV-C/CI
1. TV Card Type: DVB-C
1. TV Card Driver: 4.8.0
2. TV Card: Dilog Conax CAM
MPEG2 Video Codec: fddshow
MPEG2 Audio Codec: fddshow
h.264 Video Codec: CoreAVC
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Canal Digital
HTPC Case: 3R HT 1000B
Cooling:
Power Supply: Chieftec 400W
Remote: MStation
TV: TH42PX70E Panasonic 42 plasma
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI-VGA

MediaPortal usually reports whenever there is a recording conflict, with two programs scheduled at the same time.
That is, if I choose programs from the TV Guide. If I use the Search function, for example to choose programs/movies in Genres, this doesn't work. It seems that MediaPortal doesn't even check if there is a conflict when using Search, and it schedules overlapping recordings.
Is this a bug, or is it by design?

It leads to the obvious issue of overlapping scheduled recordings, but that gives me the error "Cannot start timeshifting. Channel is scrambled". MediaPortal doesn't recover from this error until I fix it manually, so all subsequent recordings will fail with 0,10 KB files.
To fix this, I need to quit MediaPortal and open a channel in the FireViewer app which came with the FloppyDTV. When I start MediaPortal again, I once again get the "Channel is scambled" error, and then I have to tune to the same channel as FireViewer app had open, and everything is working again.

I'm attaching the tv.log of one such incident.
You can see that this recording was successful:
Ray Mears' Extreme Survival - BBC Knowledge - 2009-07-08 - 00_40
This one (and all scheduled recordings after it) failed:
Cities of the Underworld - History Channel - 2009-07-08 - 01_10

 

[noddan]

I have the excact same problem, have you found a solution?

 

[craige1]

Conflic checking has been a joke in mediaportal for a while, if i remember correctly they simply pulled it out at one stage.

 

[echoing]

noddan:
There is no solution to the lack of conflict checking in search. MediaPortal doesn't have that feature. My workaround is to check scheduled recordings manually and remove the conflicting schedules.

I am beginning to suspect that the "unable to start timeshifting. channel is scrambled" error is partially caused by my Dilog Conax CAM. I set that it can only decode 1 channel at at time, and the problem almost never occurs anymore.