Have you actually experienced the failure of the second part or are you just assuming that the second part won’t be recorded because the timer/record icon is not appearing (as you would rightly expect it to)? The fact that you cannot select the second part to record suggests that the timer is already set.

I have not experienced this type of recording failure myself.

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I bet the problem lies with the broadcaster not identifying the split programme with correct crid coding…

Can you give an example?

There are others eg

itv 4, Sony Movie Channel.

Workaround is set a manual recording for the second part, when the broadcaster fails to identify it as a split event.

SSThing – 57 minutes ago  » 

I have had this a few times, where the epg does not indicate that all of the series is set to record, despite series link having been chosen. Selecting the missing (tonight's) episode will not allow one to set a timer. However, cancelling and the re selecting works. As you can see from my pic (taken before I cancelled and reset) the icon shows a series recording was set previously.

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A split event is a single programme that isn’t transmitted in one part.

Frequently to show a evening news bulletin.

This requires the broadcaster to code the crid codes indicating a split event.

That’s different to a series recording where once an event (a episode) is recorded the box schedules the next episode.

SSThing – 1 hour ago  » 

I have used my example to confirm the op’s claim that, despite being set, the epg nor the schedule indicated that the 2nd part of a split or an episode in a series would be recorded and that it was not possible to select the affected part/episode from the epg to set an individual recording event. Despite this having happened to me previously, the affected episode did in fact record correctly.

Which is because the broadcaster screwed up not the box. You can convert the first part recording to a manual one and extend the recording time to cover the end of the second part.

It’s the classic garbage in/ garbage out situation.

You should complain to the broadcaster who are using personnel not trained as to how to code a split event. If you can find one in advance it’s possible to look at the CRID codeing.

Nobody doubts the OP we have seen this many times on both Freeview+/Freeview Play and Freesat boxes. Freeview and Freesat use the same crid system to enable accurate and series recordings.

Unfortunately they often get the codes wrong. No recordings of The Voice took place on Sunday evening on ITV-HD no doubt due to similar failures at ITV to modify the codes to cope with the cancellation of Ant and Decs programme.

BBC 1 HD recently made a right pigs ear of the BBC HD Shetland series.

SSThing – 19 minutes ago  » 

Which is because the broadcaster screwed up not the box.

.. is exactly the point I made in the 2nd post

It was your affected episode that I posted about. Split-Event recordings are rarely part of a series, usually a one off movie that the broadcaster doesn’t consider part of a series. There is generally no episodes and therefore no series recording codes. It’s a one off event, with a break in the middle.

If the broadcaster considered the first part of the movie as Episode 1 and second part as episode 2 (same series CRID different episode CRID) it would be a two episode series that would record both in a series folder. The reservation would hang around for 13 weeks (unless manually deleted) and then auto delete.