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Sky Remote Record Time Difference.

  • 28-07-2009 7:02pm
    #1
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,633 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Just got myself a shiny new iphone and installed the Sky Remote App which enables you to view the Sky EPG and schedule recordings.

    Seems to be great and very easy but I have now discovered a problem.

    I have noticed that when I select a program from the phone, showing the correct start time, it adds it to my sky planner but with a 1 hour later start time, which of course as a result I am missing programs.

    Searched for a solution but no joy, has anyone any solutions to this?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    FWIW, mine works perfectly. It's just a thought, but is it a time zone difference between your iPhone and the Sky box? Maybe that's rubbish but worth checking into just to be sure.
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  • #3
    cormacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 360 ✭✭cormacl


    Smells like a timezone problem somewhere. The iPhone runs an OSX-variant based on BSD. And like all good operating systems (the ones based on UNIX), BSD stores time in UTC. So regardless of what local time you use, the machine is always set to UTC. Local time is pure presentation settings only.

    So on my Linux box.. see the difference between current time and actual UTC..
    [cormac@sigma ~]$ date
    Tue Jul 28 21:38:21 IST 2009
    [cormac@sigma ~]$ date -u
    Tue Jul 28 20:38:23 UTC 2009
    [cormac@sigma ~]$

    ..we're in summer daylight savings time at the moment and are actually 1 hour advanced or east from UTC. I'm reckoning that the Sky remote protocol, is supposed to be using UTC times.. but the device is passing local time instead.. so when it says record at 22:00.. the box will get programmed for 22:00 UTC when in reality that will be 23:00 localtime.

    If I'm right, the way to get around this would be to mess around with the timezone on the device. Go to the Settings/General/Date & Time and set the Timezone to UTC and see what happens.. if it works, you'll get the correct scheduling but end up with the device an hour out until we change the clocks again.

    BTW: I used to use tvbrowser to remote program my dreambox from XMLTV feeds.. and at one point the same issue crept in.. local time was being used instead of UTC and causing the timed events to be an hour out.


  • #4
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,633 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Thanks to both for your repsonses.

    I thought it might be something like this.

    I just set the iphone to UTC, which brought my clock back an hour and scheduled a recording but again it was scheduled to record one hour later than reality.

    Really is very frustrating, also it would be very confusing to have device on wrong time during the summer months!

    Any more tips would be appreciated, surely I'm not the only one who's had this?


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