Z8 only recording partial schedule

Good day. Started a new problem with my Z8 recently. I have a recording schedule set up to record shows at 9, 10, and 11 PM and 5 AM the following day. Recently, the 11 PM and the 5 AM program fail to start recording. The box starts up, connects and goes to the correct channel, but recording doesn't start. I deleted and recreated the entire schedule without benefit, getting the same results. It's not a case of the storage (1TB HDD) getting disconnected (something I've seen very occasionally and have chalked up to Android) which I normally resolve by disconnecting power from the Z8 and cold booting. This AM the 11 PM recording was missing and the 5 AM had not started recording. The storage was connected, as I was able to browse to the HDD from my laptop and could hit the Record button and get things started. Any thoughts? I suppose it's a matter of resetting it and starting over. Ugh.

Thanks for reading and any replies.

Quote from SAM

How do you turn off the box, standby or power off? Try with other power off method if scheduled recordings starts and you not use the box.

Also check if play limit in MOL2 Settings is off when using standby method.

I power off, have done that ever since I found out the box had enough smarts to turn itself on. Playback limit is off. Haven't had a real issues up to now. Here's what happened last night:

(Edit - Before doing below, I had factory reset, updated and restored a backup.)

Last night's recording start times were 10 PM, 11 PM, and 12 Midnight. 10 PM, 11 PM shows recorded OK.

Third show not shown in recordings. Neither was the next morning's 5 AM show. So I browsed the \media_rw\sda1 folder and found a 4GB .ts_ file as well as a .001 file currently being written to. I renamed the .ts_ file to .ts and opened in VLC. It had the third evening show, complete, as well as the not-scheduled 6 hours following, plus the start of the 5 AM show. My goofy provider does something every day at about 2:50 AM that drops the connection, must be rebooting something on schedule, so there was a break there but it picked up again shortly after. 4GB file stopped at ~ 6 AM.

I also copied off the .001 file and renamed to .ts for viewing in VLC and it was a continuation of the 5 AM show. The recording never closed and the .001 file continued until about 10 AM, which was when I copied it off. At this moment , the original .001 file is still open and being written to. It's approaching 4GB now, so I expect it will close and roll over to .002 if I don't change the channel

That's all I have for now.

And now last night all went fine. No explanation. No changes made since 48 hours ago when the box was reset and restored. WTH

Something hiccupped but damned if I know what.

Day 3

None of my 4 programs recorded. Z8 was on when I woke up, HDD was accessible via Samba, no data in either /media_rw/sda1/Recordings or the /media_rw/sda1/timeshift .ts_ location. Turned on TV, black screen on channel, and still black screen on channel change. Connections showed as connected. Disconnected, reconnected, had picture and sound. May be a provider issue. So many of these guys are half-baked.

No real need to reply at this point. Set up a recoding for later and I'll see what happens.

Quote from henkie

Maybe its related to Cloudflare blocking iptv?

No, don't use it. My internal DNS talks to the roots only (Resolver).

Setup another test recording today, came off without a hitch. Weird.

Now I'm back to Day 1. Recordings setup for 1000 PM, 1100, 1200, 100 AM. No recording at 12 or 1, apparently never turned off. No recording, but started timeshift files later at a bit after 3 AM (likely after the provider's connection came back up after whatever they mess with at 0250). Still creating more now at 10 AM local. Are there any logs I can look at?

So last night it recorded 9 PM, skipped 10 PM, recorded 11 PM, turned itself on at 5 AM but did not start recording.

So what's next? Scratch build it again w/o the backup? Time to move on? Nvidia?

XC, thanks.

Quote from SAM

You could change your sub to Stalker MAC/ID and test with this protocol.

Except then I would lose my second connection. Last night my 9/10/11 PM shows recorded but then the box didn't shut off. My 5 AM recording didn't start and the box just created the rolling 2 hour buffer file again. Is the Z8 Beta firmware going to be released as Final soon?

I installed the last firmware, didn't help. Did a factory reset and set it up from scratch (no backup). Still on/off problems recording entire schedule. Friday night I was set to record 9, 10, 11 PM shows. Turned on the TV with the TV's own remote while the 10 PM show was recording. I did not do anything with the Formuler remote, since I know if you do anything with it while recording the box won't shut off when it's over. I got the banner saying that the 11 PM show would start recording in 5 minutes. I just waited. The 10 PM show finished, the recording indicator went out and nothing more happened, no new recording.

Is this a lost cause? Does Formuler even provide support using logs from this unit anymore? Thanks for reading.

Back to this. I opened a ticket, sent logs, got a "sorry you're having a problem" reply, a later one saying "sorry for the delay", then no more responses after I asked for update.

So. Anyway I can check the logs myself?