Duplicate Provide visibility of recording errors in the UI not just in the log

August 25, 2024

Please provide feedback of failed recordings somewhere, not just the text logfile via "ServiceUnavailable" entries. Doing so in the "Live TV -> Recordings" panel's content seems like a good place. Similar in function to what the Channels DVR server's UI gives me. Note the panels shaded in red:

TL&DR version:

This aspect of Emby recordings has been a thorn in my side and I hope it can be remediated one day not too far off in the future. I.e. the lack of feedback and visibility when a recording fails due to the "ServiceUnavailable" exception. In my case, they happen as no fault of Emby's operation; there's always a problem with the source. The request here is to provide feedback and visibility of that fact when a recording has failed.

it has been months now with my HDHomeRun devices and antennas that I need to closely count how many concurrent recording I have going over the course of a day, to prevent exceeding free antennas. I have two devices, for a total of 8 tuners, the last 2 of 8 being ATSC 3.0. And either when more than 8 channels need to be recorded concurrently, or more than 2 ATCS 3.0 tuners are needed but they are already in use, the well known "ServiceUnavailable" condition will persist until the needed type of tuner doesn't free before the recording retries expire. But, unless I go scour and search for "ServiceUnavailable" and pay attention to the recording name and whether the recording started after a few of them, I won't know of an error.
I have multiple TVE sources configured in my Channels Server. Which I've configured in Emby as both a m3u8 source and XMLTV guide data. In the last few weeks various programs and channels started having problems, rapidly degrading the last few days (corrected it by switching over to use the beta). Again however, there is no UI based visibility to this fact. But since over the course of the last few weeks I'd moved all movie recordings and a few Series recordings from Channels to Emby -- to enjoy its superior presentation of new shows and movies both visually and thru the unified/consolidated list -- the number of failures I'd been experiencing in Emby had probably been 10x or 20x more than you see in that screencap. And I had no idea!

What you see in that screencap is what they call their "Calendar". It's loosely similar to Emby's "Live TV > Recordings" panel. But with the all important twist that they show a card for both successful and failed recordings. If the Emby Recordings panel's content were modified to include some type of generic error image graphic for failed recordings too like the Channels Calendar -- could be made configurable thus show failures optionally -- the very user unfriendly and time-consuming task of viewing and scouring the log files and searching for multiple instances of "ServiceUnavailable" for missing recordings, could be ended.

Hope folks feel this "up vote" worthy. Thanks all.