Skipping An Entire Day

progrocktv

I've set up a weekly schedule with each individual day it's own schedule. Under Playouts, I have alternate schedule with an entry corresponding for each individual day of the week (and only that day checked) with the order starting on Monday at the top and Sunday at the bottom. My Sunday and Monday schedules are playing fine, but looking at the playout I'm skipping Tuesday completely.
Here's what the playout looks like:

7/21/2025 10:00:07 PM 7/21/2025 10:29:51 PM Dad's Army - s01e01 - The Man and the Hour - 29:43
7/21/2025 10:30:10 PM 7/21/2025 10:59:13 PM Have I Got News for You - s01e01 - 29:03
7/21/2025 11:00:06 PM 7/22/2025 12:15:46 AM The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson - s02e22-1:15:39
7/23/2025 9:00:10 AM 7/23/2025 9:25:30 AM Hogan's Heroes - s01e02 - Hold the Tiger -25:20
7/23/2025 9:30:06 AM 7/23/2025 9:55:47 AM The Beverly Hillbillies - s01e02 - Getting Settled - 25:40

As you can see the 22nd is skipped completely

Each entry starts at a fixed time and the schedule is set as "Flexible"

Tonight Show runs into the next day since it starts at 11:00pm and is about 1h15m and ends at 12:15am the next day and have nothing scheduled after that. I tried removing the Post Roll Filler (which was set to a commercials collection) and Fallback Filler (which was video of a still logo) with no change. I finally deleted the entire Tonight Show entry on the schedule and everything is fine, but have no idea why it would wipe out an entire day.

jason

It's hard to say without seeing the specifics of your schedules - does Tuesday start with something that has a fixed time of 12:00am? Flexible is supposed to prevent this behavior (waiting until the next day), but maybe there's a bug with it happening at the start of a schedule.

progrocktv

Nothing else scheduled until 9:00am the next day. I tried the 11:00pm with and without Post-Roll Filler and Fallback Filler with no change. The only thing that kicks in the next day schedule is if I remove the entry all together. I'm thinking the system is freaking out when whatever is scheduled goes past midnight the next day (even if I have something scheduled after. It DOES however work if I set it to "Dynamic" rather than a set time. But it looks like scheduling something with a set time (even if the next scheduled item is set to Flexible) that goes past midnight will skip the entire next day.

progrocktv

progrocktv Okay, looks like even Dymanic is erasing the entire next day now. So pretty much anything scheduled the following day running after midnight the next day is erasing at next day's schedule.

jason

progrocktv I'll need to investigate this. I remember recommending limiting schedules to 24h when alternate schedules are used, but I'll have to see if it's something that can be worked around or is a hard requirement.

progrocktv

Quick update, once the offending schedule item that kicked out today played last night I manually reset the playout this morning to get my daily schedule back on track. However, it's playing the first episode of everything again (same episodes that played yesterday). Tomorrow looks like it's playing the second.

jason

progrocktv resetting the playout also erases history. Block scheduling does not behave this way.

progrocktv

jason I'll have to do some tinkering around with Block scheduling and see if that works better, but as you said in another post the Mid-Roll filler would be an issue (I like for each show to start on the :30 or :00 minute mark with commercials running in between.)

progrocktv

jason Hey Jason, Just following up if you've found anything. It's strange because sometimes it comes up and works fine and sometimes it doesn't.

jason

Classic scheduling issues are very hard to reproduce because there are so many variables/so much configuration involved. The best thing would be for you to hop in https://discord.ersatztv.org and dm me your ersatztv.sqlite3 database from your ETV config folder and let me know which channel has the issue. Then I can load it right up and see if it's a bug, etc.

Otherwise I'll need a lot of details about your schedules, your schedule items, the filler you have enabled on schedule items, the settings for the filler on the schedule items, etc, etc.

progrocktv

jason Will do, thanks!

jason

Thanks for sending over your db - I made a couple updates that should help.

Fix building playouts with empty schedules

Fix schedule start time calculation when daily playout build goes beyond midnight and into a different alternate schedule