Zero length recordings

[no1baggiesfan]

Had this problem randomly in 4.1 (any channel, FTA and subscribed and channel is watchable)
Flashed box last night to newest firmware and now its happening again in 4.2

Set my box to auto time a recording and it says its started, but the recording is 0.00 and obviously unwatchable

I can press the record button and record something and it will be fine (watchable and length is shown properly) but all timed recordings are zero length

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TM TWIN OE
openvix 4.2 009
Blue HD skin
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oscam
Kodi 3
EPG refresh
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TIA

[no1baggiesfan]

I am putting this problem down to a very bad image, I have tried numerous times to record something and nothing works

I was watching the channel to be recorded, as soon as the recording started I received the error message "tune failed" that is impossible, I was watching the channel perfectly BEFORE the recording started.

4.2 is not an update, its worse than 4.1 was, going back to 3, failing that, going to use PLi.

[Andy_Hazza]

I am putting this problem down to a very bad image, I have tried numerous times to record something and nothing works

I was watching the channel to be recorded, as soon as the recording started I received the error message "tune failed" that is impossible, I was watching the channel perfectly BEFORE the recording started.

4.2 is not an update, its worse than 4.1 was, going back to 3, failing that, going to use PLi.

I have a friend who is on 4.2 on his Twin-OE and not reported any issues, but then again I did set it up for him. Try a fresh install AND NO RESTORES, so a clean install and don't install any skins or other plugins, just test as a FTA receiver before reinstalling your plugins one by one, in between installing your plugins test again. Maybe a setup error somewhere along the way?


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[birdman]

I was watching the channel to be recorded, as soon as the recording started I received the error message "tune failed" that is impossible, I was watching the channel perfectly BEFORE the recording started.

Not that I know much about such things (I don't have a CAM), but to me that sounds as though you are trying unscramble things twice (once to view, once to record) and your set-up can only handle doing one at a time. So this could be as oscam issue, rather than an image one.

[no1baggiesfan]

I have a friend who is on 4.2 on his Twin-OE and not reported any issues, but then again I did set it up for him. Try a fresh install AND NO RESTORES, so a clean install and don't install any skins or other plugins, just test as a FTA receiver before reinstalling your plugins one by one, in between installing your plugins test again. Maybe a setup error somewhere along the way?


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This is a fresh install of 4.2, you cannot restore settings from a lower image.

[no1baggiesfan]

Not that I know much about such things (I don't have a CAM), but to me that sounds as though you are trying unscramble things twice (once to view, once to record) and your set-up can only handle doing one at a time. So this could be as oscam issue, rather than an image one.

Channel is an FTA so cam issue is definitely not the problem, using same cam and settings for over two years and it has never been an issue before.

[ccs]

This is a fresh install of 4.2, you cannot restore settings from a lower image.

and the rest of the sentence said....

....... so a clean install and don't install any skins or other plugins, just test as a FTA receiver before reinstalling your plugins one by one, in between installing your plugins test again. Maybe a setup error somewhere along the way?

[no1baggiesfan]

and the rest of the sentence said....

And my OP said:

Have you tried a flash WITHOUT settings restore?
Have you tried this? PLEASE SELECT YES OR NO. Yes
Have you tried a flash WITH settings restore?
Have you tried this? PLEASE SELECT YES OR NO. No

EPG plugin was already installed with image

kodi has been removed

Same issue.

[Andy_Hazza]

I know peeps have had issues with Cccam, but if its on FTA channels I dunno. Probably best if you enable logs and see if anything shows up in that. What is your Tuner Config setup?


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[no1baggiesfan]

I know peeps have had issues with Cccam, but if its on FTA channels I dunno. Probably best if you enable logs and see if anything shows up in that. What is your Tuner Config setup?


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Tuner setup :

tuner 1 fixed dish on 28.2
tuner 2 motorized 1m dish

using standard image settings for recordings.

have no issues with oscam or cccam, or anything else tbh lol, just cant record anything

wifey not happy.

gonna have to try rolling back image by image until I get one that works

[ccs]

In menu/timers/timers, select a finished(failed) timer and press info

It might tell you what went wrong.

[no1baggiesfan]

In menu/timers/timers, select a finished(failed) timer and press info

It might tell you what went wrong.

Just tells you normal info, program name, time etc, no info on why it failed

[judge]

I was watching the channel to be recorded, as soon as the recording started I received the error message "tune failed" that is impossible, I was watching the channel perfectly BEFORE the recording started.

Something wrong with your set-up so. Did you change any preferred tuner settings in the Customise screen?

[twol]

So you were watching on tuner 1 (fixed)? and then you started recording on tuner 1 or tuner 2(motorised)?
... and then you received tuner failed from ?
Just wondering if a switch to the motorised tuner is somehow causing an issue?

[no1baggiesfan]

Something wrong with your set-up so. Did you change any preferred tuner settings in the Customise screen?

So you were watching on tuner 1 (fixed)? and then you started recording on tuner 1 or tuner 2(motorised)?
... and then you received tuner failed from ?
Just wondering if a switch to the motorised tuner is somehow causing an issue?

Using stock image settings

Channels are fine on both dishes anyway, so it shouldnt cause an issue.

Tried changing preffered tuner to A (fixed)

same issue.

My setup has not changed in over 3 years, never had this problem with earlier images, hence why I think there is some issue with it, maybe driver ?? some googling around brought up a driver issue with a previous image and the blank recording issue I now have.