[mythtv-users] Backend always recording duplicates.

[Nick Morrott]

On 13/02/07, Nathan Caldwell <saintdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem where myth wants to record every showing of
> certain programs, even though I've told it not to record duplicates,
> I'm hoping someone here can help. This doesn't happen with all
> programs, but there are a few it does it consistently with (Scrubs,
> The Simpsons, CSI some of the time). I've tried to tell it to never
> record the episodes that I've noticed it has recorded twice, but it
> still schedules them to be recorded anyway. For example this upcoming
> episode of Scrubs:
>
> From mythweb:
>
>         Scrubs
>         Wed, Feb 21 (Rerun)
>         06:00 PM to 06:30 PM (30 mins)
>
>         Episode:
>             My Tuscaloosa Heart
>         Description:
>             Carla accuses J.D. of avoiding a terminally ill patient because
> the man was mean-spirited. (TV-14, CC, Stereo, Rerun)
>         MythTV Status:
>             This showing will be recorded. (Never Record)
>
>         Category:
>             Sitcom
>         Type:
>             series (SH446160)
>         Episode Number:
>             SR018
>         Original Airdate:
>             2002-03-12
>         Program ID:
>             EP4461600018
>
> I have it set to record at any time on any channel, check for
> duplicates in all recordings, check in subtitle and description.
> Here's from mythconverg.oldrecorded
>
>   chanid        starttime       endtime         title   subtitle        description     category
>         seriesid        programid       findid  recordid        station         rectype         duplicate
>         recstatus       reactivate      generic
>   1051          2006-12-26 20:00:00     2006-12-26 20:30:00     Scrubs          My
> Tuscaloosa Heart        Carla accuses J.D. of avoiding a terminally ill
> patient because the man was mean-spirited.      Sitcom          SH446160
>         EP4461600018    0       203     COMEDYP         4       0       -3      0       0
>   1051  2007-02-06 12:00:00     2007-02-06 12:30:00     Scrubs  My
> Tuscaloosa Heart        Carla accuses J.D. of avoiding a terminally ill
> patient because the man was mean-spirited.      Sitcom  SH446160
>         EP4461600018    0       203     COMEDYP         4       0       -3      0       0
>   1002  2006-12-20 00:30:00     2006-12-20 01:00:00     Scrubs  My
> Tuscaloosa Heart        Carla accuses J.D. of avoiding a terminally ill
> patient because the man was mean-spirited.      Sitcom  SH446160
>         EP4461600018    0       203     KWGN    4       0       -3      0       0
>
> You can see it knows that it has been recorded before, yet it still
> wants to record the showing!
> Any ideas why this would be?

As you seem happy looking in the DB, I wonder what the associated
record rule is saying:

mysql> SELECT recordid,chanid,title,programid,type,dupmethod,dupin
FROM record WHERE recordid = 203;


Nick
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