[mythtv-users] Dealing with multiple local network affiliates

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Jul 13 03:31:18 UTC 2008


On Saturday 12 July 2008 20:09:27 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > jedi wrote:
> >> Hullo,
> >>
> >>     Is there any good way to deal with the multiple
> >> redundant recordings that occur when you can recieve
> >> multiple affiliates for the same network? I live in
> >> DFW so I can get OTA signals from both NBC affiliates.
> >> How can I stop MythTV from recording the same show at
> >> the same time on 2 separate channels?
> >>
> >>     Both tuners of my HDHomeRun are recording the same
> >> episode of the same show at the same time. I would like
> >> to prevent this with the least amount of unintended
> >> consequences. Is there a recording rule setting for this?
> >> Can I limit some shows so they only record one at a time?
> >
> > If you have a schedule and the schedule properly lists the episode and
> > don't record duplicates is set then it should not be recording the
> > duplicates.
> >
> > If the schedule does not properly list the episode it does not know that
> > they are actually duplicates, I don't know how to solve that, except to
> > only record the show on a single channel.
> >
> > You may want to try updating the guide data earlier in the day via
> > something like this: "/usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase --refresh-today"
> > otherwise you may not get guide updates for a show that is updated
> > earlier in the day, and a number of the shows seem to update only a day
> > or so before it is to run, I know I have had shows attempted to record
> > both network's ATSC and analog feeds (4 total) for something that does
> > not have episode data, so on my setup shows conflicts and I manually need
> > to tell it to not record all of them.
>
> Do both affiliates run exactly the same programming lineup? If so they
> should both be set to the same data source. Using an xmltv style feed
> you make sure each channel has the same xmltvid.You can check this in
> mythweb (setup|tv|channel info). I believe this will sort the problem.
>
> Disclaimer: I am not sure how this works in Schedules Direct, I am
> using a xmltv feed in NZ.

Network affiliates in the US sometimes run the network programming and 
sometimes they run local or syndicated stuff, so using the same data feed is 
probably not practical.

Even the O & Os (Owned and operated by the networks) have time slots that are 
not network programming, and sometimes, especially in the Mountain time zone, 
programming is delayed.

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