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Recordings from X1 DVR not showing on stream app or website
I see lots of similar issues posted but no definitive solution. We have a bunch of recordings on our X1 DVR, but only a small number are on the Stream App. The ones from the stream app are from one show, and not the latest recordings. It’s like it stopped syncing.
I have checked on multiple devices, iPhone, iPad, Fire TV, and stream website, and they all are missing the recordings.
what can we do to get the recordings synced to the stream app?
Official Solution
XfinityJamesC
Official Employee
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1.7K Messages
4 months ago
Greetings, @Joe4012013! Thanks so much for taking a moment out of your busy day to leave a post on our community forum about this DVR issue. It sounds like you may have unintentionally been downgraded from standard DVR service with 150 hours of storage to DVR Lite with 20 hours of storage. Most of our TV packages included DVR service a few years ago, but there were a lot of customers who didn't use it or want it, so it became an optional add-on for $10.00 per month. You mentioned switching to a new promotion recently. I'm guessing your previous package may have been one of the older ones that still included the full DVR service. We should have noticed that when you were changing plans, but it may have been overlooked.
If you could send our team a direct message with your full name, the name listed on the account (if different), and the service address associated with your account, I'd be more than happy to look into this for you.
To send a Direct Message, please click on the “Direct Message” icon in the top-right corner of the screen, next to the bell icon, click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon, then type or select "Xfinity Support". Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window and press Enter to send your message and initiate a live session.
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XfinityKatie
Official Employee
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744 Messages
1 year ago
Hello! @user_5cd870 Thank you for reaching out to us and letting us know about the issues you are running into with your recordings. The recordings available via the Stream app are only the ones that are stored in the cloud. If your cloud storage is already full, then any new recordings would only be stored on your DVR boxe itself via the hard drive and not the cloud. Additionally, there is not a way to transfer recordings from the X1 DVR to the X1 Cloud DVR (or from the X1 Cloud DVR to their X1 DVR). So, the only way to ensure that the recordings are showing on both the box and your app is to ensure you have enough storage space within the cloud for the recording to show via the Xfinity Stream app.
Have you checked to see if your storage is showing as full? To see your current storage %, press the xfinity button on your remote, then click Saved > Recordings. From here, you will see the storage meter to show how much space you have left for your Cloud DVR storage.
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user_tgydav
3 Messages
11 months ago
I have a similar issue. My DVR cable box says it is 60% full, but only my most recent recordings show on the streaming app. It is so frustrating. I’ve been trying to figure this out for over a year now. I’ve spent hours on the phone with xfinity and nobody with xfinity seems to understand the problem or knows how to fix it. I’m about ready to switch providers if somebody cannot help with this.
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Thesleepdoctor
Contributor
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25 Messages
11 months ago
I have this issue as well. It comes and goes somewhat unpredictably. I have two boxes with cloud dvr. One can always see everything. The streaming app can only see the most recent 30 recordings or so. The other dvr box variably shows everything or the more limited set of recordings. Rebooting and syncing the second dvr does not seem to affect this behavior, nor does unplugging it and waiting for a minute before plugging it back in.
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rlfisher5
New Poster
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2 Messages
11 months ago
I have exactly the same issues. I see many recordings on my DVR, but it is not nearly full, but very few of them show on the web, or Stream on Android and iPad.
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user_3olf8e
1 Message
11 months ago
Same issue here as well. Dvr shows 87 percent full with only 15 shows recorded, all are 1 hour shows, so doesn’t make sense to be that full. App only has 8 shows avaialble to watch. Synched dvr, unplugged and restarted and worked with agent on phone, why are the older shows missing on the app that exist on the dvr
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Toriguli
Visitor
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2 Messages
11 months ago
I'm having the same problem, DVR shows 3% full with only 7 recordings but not on my phone app or computer app! Beyond Fed Up! I pay a lot of money each month to have xFinity but not getting my money's worth!!!
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user_9b3913
Visitor
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1 Message
11 months ago
Same problem here. My DVR shows 53 episodes of one show but on my iPad using the Xfinity stream app, it only shows 19 episodes recorded. This is true for virtually. Every show I’ve recorded, the actual DVR will show many more episodes than the streaming app. And I’m still under 75% full. And I repeatedly synced, my DDR,
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veetee76b
New Poster
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2 Messages
11 months ago
Same problem here. Just realized it today. Several shows on my DVR not synching to my Xfinity streaming app. I await any potential fixes for this problem!
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user_4ji1hq
1 Message
11 months ago
Same problem here. In addition, when I schedule a recording it will often show up on the streaming app through my ROKU, but then it will disappear before it tapes, meaning if I want to watch the recorded show, I can watch it only from the TV with the box.
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hybucket1
New Poster
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14 Messages
11 months ago
This problem seems to have been ocurring for a long time. I do not get the full recordings listed on any devices with the streaming app, but I do get them on the Xfinity Remote app on my Android phone. It just started happening recently - storage is at 60 percent. I have not contacted phone support as it sounds useless. Has anyone found a solution?
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user_1xij1z
1 Message
11 months ago
I'm having this same issue. I've tried syncing but it still only shows the most recent episode of anything recorded.
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user_b68085
Visitor
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5 Messages
10 months ago
I am having the same issue as everyone else. I have stayed on the phone with Technical Support for hours, signed in and out of my account, deleted my app and reinstalled it, had a technician out who couldn’t figure it out and reached out to his supervisor. Supervisor said he couldn’t figure out what was wrong either and he was going to have a meeting about it and get back to me. That was a month ago and I haven’t heard anything. The bottom line is, there has to be an internal problem,
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hybucket1
New Poster
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14 Messages
10 months ago
Re: the Emloyee above asking if I've checked my storage capacity. On one device it says 22%, another says 70%, and antoher says...well, you get the idea. I have no idea what's going on. I did get to send a DM as also suggested and have had no response and while admire the effort and time others here have spent with technicians, I have not and assume this is an internal issue and even THEY haven't a clue. I'm hoping if a solution is ever found, it will be posted here.
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ItShouldJustWork
2 Messages
10 months ago
Me too...
Same problem for me too. I just got off the phone (again) after another 1 hour troubleshooting call with Xfinity, with no solution.
My DVR is 79% full, currently with 156 recordings on the DVR.
Previously all were viewable as recordings on the Xfinity Stream app, on my iPhone and same on 2 different iPads, until just the past couple weeks.
Now I only have about 15 of those recordings on the app (same on all 3 devices). Interesting that it seems to be the same 15 shows that the app is willing to show, and others it consistently won't show. It does update with new recordings, of those 15 shows only.
Some of the things I have tried:
I have powered down my devices and restarted them
I have Sync'd in settings on the DVR.
I have signed out and signed back in to the app
I have removed the app and reinstalled it
I cleared device-specific settings within the app menu (after double clicking the version number to get that option) (found this as a suggestion online).
None of this helps.
On this site and on a number of other websites there are MANY people are having this same problem, and not being helped with an actual solution...
Could someone at Xfinity please share this widespread problem with one of their app support specialists and post a new solution to this problem. PLEASE!
Update: After my last troubleshooting phone call, it was escalated to a higher level technician who just called me back and told me that it is an "outage" that has caused my problem over these past couple weeks, that they are working on fixing it, and that it may take a couple more weeks but they are working on this issue and that it should improve after that.
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