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Hello Adam,
Yes, please close it!
I am now back on version 2.x to avoid some other bugs but will soon test again version 3.x. I have seen that you now have set up a PPA. Thank you very much for that!

FYI, I am getting this messages and the effect is not benign. I am running 3.2.18 on an ARM processor. I get the message about unable to write meta data. However, TVH does write the file for a couple of minutes and then just quits. Below is a copy of the debug messages I received in the Web Interface. Then below that is a directory listing of where the file was being stored. You can see by the time stamps that it stopped writing to the disk after about 2 minutes.

While normal user "steve" is logged into the Web Interface, TVH is running under root. This was supposed to be a 20 minute test recording.

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Nov 13 21:34:29 dvr: "eyetst" on "KEYEDT" starting at 2012-11-13 21:35:00, scheduled for recording by "steve"

Nov 13 21:34:30 dvr: "eyetst" on "KEYEDT" recorder starting

Nov 13 21:34:30 subscription: "DVR: eyetst" subscribing on "KEYEDT", weight: 300, adapter: "HDHomeRun ATSC", network: "", mux: "219,000 kHz", provider: "", service: "", quality: 100

Nov 13 21:34:31 dvr: Recording error: "/mnt/myhd1/Pogo_stuff/Recordings/eyetst.mkv": Unable to write meta data

Nov 13 22:05:00 subscription: "DVR: eyetst" unsubscribing from "KEYEDT"

Nov 13 22:05:00 dvr: Recording completed: "/mnt/myhd1/Pogo_stuff/Recordings/eyetst.mkv"

Nov 13 22:05:00 dvr: "eyetst" on "KEYEDT": End of program: Completed OK

[root@alarm Recordings]# ls -l
total 220160
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 225425276 Nov 13 21:36 eyetst.mkv
[root@alarm Recordings]#

John,

I have realised that it is indeed possible to create a timer only event with no EPG present (or at least it should be). In fact I was doing this myself (though I bodged HTSP to allow it) to record something from a rawts input for test purposes (which obviously had no EPG input).

Adam