{
 "id": "sdrtrunk-recording-filenames-changed-channel-label-after-ser",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "SDRTrunk recording filenames changed channel label after service restart (Voice_ -> T-..._Control_), silently emptying transcript pipeline",
 "symptom": "Transcript browser shows no entries after a certain date/time even though ~/SDRTrunk/recordings/ keeps filling with new mp3s; transcript.json row count grows then shrinks back each run; same clips re-transcribed every 30-min timer run (GPU pegged ~25 min CPU per run, growing).",
 "hw": [
  "rtx-pro-5000",
  "rtl-sdr"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "sdrtrunk@0.6.1",
  "faster-whisper"
 ],
 "intent": "Keep the SDRTrunk P25 scanner transcription pipeline (transcribe -> enrich -> categorize -> build_ui) producing daily transcripts across recorder restarts",
 "date": "2026-08-11",
 "status": "working",
 "cost": "Half a day of silently missing transcripts plus ~25 min GPU/CPU wasted per 30-min timer run on a growing re-transcribe loop; diagnosed via journalctl row counts frozen at 9433 while transcript rows grew each run",
 "author": "sarg",
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "body"
 ],
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}