Fuck Ups Graveyard

What Happened
Attempted to start another recording on DVR1 (Star Trek: TNG) while DVR0 was running on only 1 stable server with a ECM rate limit of 1. DVR1 stole the limited ECM slot from DVR0 causing it to use the shit Chinese fallback server and fuck the recording.

Lesson Learned
Never attempt to start a second DVR with a ECM rate limit of 1 without a stable fallback server. Alternatively just take the ban risk of setting it to 2.

What Happened
Fucking Sun moved into satellite position and caused SNR to drop creating a continuity error and ruining the entire film. Same thing happened previous day with Top Gun: Maverick (2022) around same time.

Lesson Learned
Use a second tuner to record a backup stream or separate bigger dish.

What Happened
Twat fucking around with shit in living room again and tuned power off at plug socket.

Lesson Learned
Implement Twat mitigation and don't have main disk server downstairs.

What Happened
Did not pay attention to short EPG slot time of 02:00:00 leaving insufficient padding to cover end Sky logo. Started 14:05:56, ended 16:05:08 and kill command executed 16:05:09. Film okay but almost lost it by just 1 second. DVR_HUMAN rand() function selected 8 seconds of additional padding.

Lesson Learned
Not much can be done other than to set padding higher but implementing padding relief for recordings with short EPG slot times that have correct length saved will help prevent it happening again.

What Happened
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" series chain was broken up due to "Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)" on channel "Warner TV Film (140)" overlapped with episode "In Theory (S04E25)". Program ended 1 minute sooner at 03:04:01 causing last 15 seconds to be cut off.

Lesson Learned
Just manually cancel these shit low bitrate recordings when something high priority is compromised.

What Happened
https://cardsharing.cx HD+ subscription deactivated at 11PM with no available fallback server as other shitty server wouldn't decode CAID 1830 (HD+).

Lesson Learned
Pay for next day if program runs beyound 11PM and record clear SD channel as a backup.

What Happened
Twat purposely switched plug off to server downstairs inside TV cabinet then couldn't get it up and running again in time for 10:10AM when Explorers started having to restart 1-2 times. Auto-restart worked but started recording at 10:12:03 which was 1-2 minutes too late.

Lesson Learned
Never have server anywhere Twat can find it.

What Happened
https://cardsharing.cx account ran out of credit @ 1AM so channel did not decode. Bitrate for film was ~9411kbps (~8700 for MP4).

Lesson Learned
Make sure account has sufficient credit and/or ensure a fallback server is enabled.

What Happened
Went DD and did not pay attention to "Short Ad Break" warning so was cut short by next program "Stargate Origins - 104" staring at 05:00:00 +1min padding. Only needed +48 seconds to complete so would have passed (no ECM errors) if stopped at 05:00:00.

Lesson Learned
Add more padding to high priority channels and cancel shit low priority crap rather than try to capture it all.

What Happened
Woke up to go shopping and when placing junk bags from chair onto pillow they started to fall over so pushed them back causing them to hit hard against drawers in front of bed knocking the server causing the PCI-E to PCI bridge card to move and crash TVH. Only got 1:06:05 @ 8475kbps.

Lesson Learned
Make sure tuner cards are completely secure.

What Happened
Forgot to switch server back to fallback so no server was available when program started both being used other recording 300 (2006) on Sky Cinema Action (116). Was still in bed so and didn't notice until 21:15:00. Only recorded last 1:12:05 @ 10406kbps, no ECM drops or cunting Credits Insert (just typical).

Lesson Learned
Implement something to create an alert when a recording fails to start for whatever reason.

What Happened
Tuner card wasn't working due PCI to PCI-E Adapter being disrupted in PCI-E slot at some point after 9:30AM. Either when taking DVDs from top of computer or moved blinds.

Lesson Learned
Implement something to regularly check that TVH is still responding.

What Happened
Carelessly deleted good recording (6.08GB, 6816.7kbits/s @ 2025-07-28T20:20:07Z) with ECM and didn't redo it before deleting due to lack of disk space on both server and client PC.

Lesson Learned
Need more disk space.

What Happened
TBS tuner card or TVH started malfunctioning around 2026/06/06 06:50:00 and just assumed it was Sky messing with encryption again as exhibiting same continuity errors. Restarted server and it fixed the problem.

Lesson Learned
Need to check more often but was depressed about Kathryn so wasn't thinking about it. Implemented alert to appear when using "TVH Error Check" if too many errors occuring.