what does this mean?

Hello,

This error message happens when the dvr does not see the proper guide information for the time that it was scheduled to record. Thus making the dvr think that the show was no longer scheduled to be on. If this happens a lot, then there could be an issue with the box updating the guide information properly. Are you noticing any issues with the guide?

Thanks,

Allan - Cox Support Forums Moderator. 

Ok- after more looking around, I finding there are other weird things schedule things  going on.

It is supposed to be recording four shows this coming Monday but in three cases the name of the show in the recording list is wrong!

Lucifer at 8am on channel 1010 is completely missing from the record list even though it is new.

Timeless should record at 9pm on channel 1012 but the record list says it going to record something called Asi Es la Vida

Conviction should record at 10pm on channel 1015 but the record list says it is going to record the Donna Reed Show

Mars should record at at 10pm on channel 1072 but the record list says it is going to record Best Friends Whenever

What the heck is going on?  Only MONDAY's are messed up.  How do I fix this and make sure it doesn’t happen again???

I have rebooted my box, but that didn’t change anything yet.

I am glad you posted this.  I currently have 6 of these "not found in guide" in my MISSED RECORDINGS list.  All 6 of the shows were on the guide.  I saw them on the guide at the time of recording.  If i have a show that i do not want to miss, i now record the HD and the SD (non-HD) channel at the same time.  One of the 2 will record. 

I set these shows up as a series recording using the remote by finding them in the guide, recording only the new episodes.  The shows that started this season I set up weeks ago before the first episode.  Lucifer is in the second season so I had set that up over a year ago.

All shows were recording fine until this recent week when Lucifer did not record with that not found in guide error.  That's when I looked through the 'Scheduled Recordings' list and found those other shows to be recorded Monday with the screwed up names.

I have since fixed the screwed up names by deleting the series recording and re-creating them.

It is a bit disconcerting that I can't trust the scheduled series recordings anymore and that I have to constantly be checking on them to be sure they are correct. 

I find the show in the guide exactly when and where it is supposed to be broadcast then set it up for series recording.  Everything recorded fine for weeks until last week when it got the names wrong.  

All of the rescheduled recordings worked fine, but there was one odd thing that showed up in the failed recordings section again.  It said it couldn't find some show called 'Cesar 911' that supposedly was on Monday night on Fox at 8pm.  That was the time slot and channel for 'Lucifer' which recorded fine.  No idea where this 'Cesar 911' came from- I never saw it in the scheduled recordings list.

 I guess my concern is that it seems like that the online guide can screw up at anytime like this.  When I am home I can watch for it from now on but that won't work on vacation.  

I have yet to see anyone comment about why this happens or what can be done to prevent it.

When I said I set it up weeks ago it was because the show was in the guide weeks ago.  I record shows as a series (new broadcast only) so I only need to set it up once within 2 weeks of the first broadcast of the season.  I do not use the guide search to find these shows.  I wait until they appear in the guide then set them up as a new series recording.

Lucifer was set up over a year ago as a series recording. 

Once all that is done, I don't touch the recordings anymore.  They just record and appear in the recorded list when a new episode is broadcast.

So when all these crazy titles appeared in the recording list to be recorded, I didn't do anything to find them or change the recordings and hadn't in weeks.  They just appeared that way in place of the proper recordings that should have been there using a series recording that was set up weeks in advance.

I have since fixed the series recordings by deleting them and re-setting them up and everything is now working fine.

I still don't understand why it happened in the first place.  Why would the system think the 'Donna Reed' show is being broadcast in the time slot and channel for 'Conviction', for instance?