diff --git a/pages/edit_recording.ecpp b/pages/edit_recording.ecpp
index 5b227b02..b985f64a 100644
--- a/pages/edit_recording.ecpp
+++ b/pages/edit_recording.ecpp
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ if (recording && recording->Info()->Description()) {
 if (recording && recording->Info()->Aux()) {
   std::string aux_data;
   cGetAutoTimerReason getAutoTimerReason;
-  getAutoTimerReason.aux = recording->Info()->Aux();
+  getAutoTimerReason.recording_in = recording;
   getAutoTimerReason.requestRecording = false;
   if (getAutoTimerReason.call(LiveSetup().GetPluginScraper()) && getAutoTimerReason.createdByTvscraper) {
     AppendHtmlEscapedAndCorrectNonUTF8(aux_data, getAutoTimerReason.reason.c_str() );
diff --git a/services.h b/services.h
index 16f5dd4a..c91237b8 100644
--- a/services.h
+++ b/services.h
@@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ class ScraperGetPosterThumb {
 class cGetAutoTimerReason {
 public:
 //in:
-  const char *aux = nullptr;      // the aux field of a timer or a recording
-                                  // for a recording information about the timer creating this recoring is provided
+  const cTimer *timer = nullptr;            // only timer OR recording must be provided
+  const cRecording *recording_in = nullptr; // information about the timer creating this recoring is provided
   bool requestRecording = false;  // set this to true if you need the cRecording object
 //out
   bool createdByTvscraper;    // if this is false, please ignore all other return values
diff --git a/timers.cpp b/timers.cpp
index c6ecfe20..f86e329c 100644
--- a/timers.cpp
+++ b/timers.cpp
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ namespace vdrlive {
 	std::string SortedTimers::TvScraperTimerInfo(cTimer const& timer, std::string &recID, std::string &recName) {
 		if (!timer.Aux()) return "";
     cGetAutoTimerReason getAutoTimerReason;
-    getAutoTimerReason.aux = timer.Aux();
+    getAutoTimerReason.timer = &timer;
     getAutoTimerReason.requestRecording = true;
     if (getAutoTimerReason.call(LiveSetup().GetPluginScraper()) ) {
       if (!getAutoTimerReason.createdByTvscraper) return "";