Why was ELR S07:E25 not recorded last night?

[justinrh 259]

Any way to know why ELR S07:E25 was not recorded last night?

 

logs from the past few days

embyserver-63904619868.txtembyserver-63904550400.txtembyserver-63904464000.txtembyserver-63904620779.txt

Edited January 22 by justinrh

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, was it scheduled to record prior? How have you configured the series recording?

[justinrh 259]

Luke, Luke, Luke.  The series is configured to record, if that is what you mean.  I don't know if it was scheduled auto-magically beforehand.

[Luke 42077]

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I don't know if it was scheduled auto-magically beforehand.

OK that is kind of important to know. I would keep an eye on it going forward.

[justinrh 259]

Well, that's nice for me to have to bird-dog this, but is there nothing you can discover that might find root cause?  Is the info you seek not in some log?

[Luke 42077]

How have you configured the series recording?

[emveepee 132]

Do you have any logs for 8:30 pm (scheduled time) when Emby would have  been running

2026-01-21 19:32:59.226 Info Main: Shutdown complete

[justinrh 259]

@emveepeethanks for taking the time to look.  Strange that it would have shutdown right around that time.  I didn't get the next log because Emby labeled it as "1/22/26, 12:00 AM", but it actually is from 1/21.

embyserver-63904636800.txt

Edited January 22 by justinrh

[daldana 122]

Weird thing is that there were recording timers created for season 8 episodes, but none for season 7.

[justinrh 259]

@sa2000any way to know if it was scheduled and why Emby didn't attempt to record?

[sa2000 673]

12 hours ago, justinrh said:

any way to know if it was scheduled and why Emby didn't attempt to record

It appears to be the same reason as was for the 2-part Italy episodes you had in this forum topic and reproduced by me here

Basically we have an issue where we appear to be going by the episode title when determining if we have the episode already. Both S07E24 and S07E25 have the same title but is in 2 parts

There is already an open issue on this with the Emby Server team

The diffs between the 2 airings guide data for S7 E24 and S7 E25 are

Both airings have this episode title

      "episodeTitle": "Robert's Wedding",
 

 

 

 

[justinrh 259]

@Luke  need to get this in the next update

 

Thanks again, @sa2000!!

Edited January 23 by justinrh

[justinrh 259]

@Lukethis happened again!  I've got a bunch of 'part 1's and no part 2's.

left shows actually recorded, right shows scheduled to record

 

 

Edited January 26 by justinrh

[justinrh 259]

For the record ...

 

[sa2000 673]

11 hours ago, justinrh said:

For the record ...

was S09E11 the only episode going into the "Fraiser (1993)" show folder or was it like this up to S09E12 ?

can only look into this if i know what lineup/channel that was from and dates - might not be able to go back far though

any change in emby server version between S09E11 and S09E12 recordings ?

[justinrh 259]

I have had "1993" up until that day; there were other S09 episodes prior to E11.

channel W34EY-D 38.9, Huntsville, AL 35810

recorded 2-12 AM

today they all went into 1993, no non-dated folder today

no change in Emby server 

Edited Friday at 10:24 PM by justinrh

[sa2000 673]

On 13/02/2026 at 22:22, justinrh said:

I have had "1993" up until that day; there were other S09 episodes prior to E11.

channel W34EY-D 38.9, Huntsville, AL 35810

recorded 2-12 AM

today they all went into 1993, no non-dated folder today

no change in Emby server 

I did tests using the channel schedule and recording Frasier S09 E11, E12, E15, E16 and they all went into a "Frasier (1993)" folder

My guess is that for the recordings where they went into "Frasier" show folder, there must have been issue with some of the requests made to thetvdb and themoviedb  to get the details - Logs get purged after 3 days by default. See if there are any embyserver log files going back to the times when S09 E12 and E14 were recorded

 

[justinrh 259]

All three of the shows were recorded the same day.  Thanks for looking at it, sa.

[sa2000 673]

10 hours ago, justinrh said:

All three of the shows were recorded the same day.

I suspect there were issues encountered when interrogating thetvdb and themoviedb on that day when the recordings were made.

Next time you have issues like this, save the logs immediately in case they are needed.

PS - you can change the default 3 day purge of emby server log files to, say, 7 by editing this file when the server is shutsown

C:\Users\adminperson\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\config\system.xml

and replacing the "3" with "7"

  <LogFileRetentionDays>3</LogFileRetentionDays>