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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anthony Vaughan" data-source="post: 1255171" data-attributes="member: 153283">Hi CyberSimianYes, I did disable to timeshift-grabber and I recognized that the grabber had been invoked because the channel records, that have a field called lastGrabTime, showed that they had been updated at exactly the time I changed the EPG setting.I think I can understand why the TV Service would only operate in idle mode when no tuners are active, because the EPG grabber would be competing for resources with the tuners. So, a pretty guaranteed time that would be idle under all circumstances would be overnight - in most households anyway.I have encountered another problem with trying to use the 'Always try to update' option: it updates the state column in the program table that indicates whether a program is scheduled to record. I'm not sure when, or how often, MP realigns the schedule data with the program table, but I need certainty for my system to work because when I rename a program that starts with 'New:', to remove that phrase, that also has been scheduled to record, I synchronize the program names of all scheduled programs with the entries in the schedule table. For example, if we have a newly imported program called 'New: Blindspot', it is renamed to 'Blindspot'. The issue is that when the EPG updates an already imported program called 'Blindspot' back to 'New: Blindspot', the state field is reset to 0 and the schedule name, 'Blindspot'. will not match the reset program name and therefore it will not record. Additionally to this, my app also extracts the series information, like seriesNum and episodeNum, from the programs description field, and places them into the seriesNum and episodeNum fields. Obviously, these changes get lost when the EPG is refreshed.For these reasons I am going to go back to using WebEPG because it is more predictable, both in when it runs and which channels is grabs - it only grabs channels that are set as visibleInGuide.The only issue I can think of about using WebEPG is that, when the EPG goes wrong, I need to remember to use the 'Refresh DVB EPG'. The problem with this is that I don't know when MP realigns the schedule with the programs to set the state of schedules programs; I need to my app to rename the program names to remove 'New:' before MP tries to set programs as scheduled.Do you know how often, or when, 'TVService' synchronizes schedule data with programs? If 'TVService' performs the synchronization very regularly, then I won't have an issue because my app runs hourly and the synchronization should happen before most programs that are scheduled get recorded (mainly in the evening).Tony</blockquote>

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