[mythtv-users] Dealing with multiple local network affiliates

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 04:16:03 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> beww

Ahh OK well you are right my suggestion won't work. In NZ we have one
time zone and very few localised channels. Quite a different market!


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