[mythtv-users] Scheduling conflict question

Eloy Paris peloy at chapus.net
Sun Jan 24 14:39:23 UTC 2010


Hello,

My setup has two sources (cable and OTA) and several inputs. I have
a scheduling rule to record the show "House" at "any time on any
channel". "Check for duplicates in" is set to "All recordings" and
"Duplicate Check method" is set to "Subtittle and Description". The
scheduler was showing a conflict yesterday that got fixed after today's
mythfilldatabase run, but I want to try to understand what the scheduler
was doing.

Here's what was in the database when the conflict existed:

mysql> select title, subtitle, description from program where programid='SH006883590000';
+-------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| title | subtitle | description                                                        |
+-------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| House |          | A brilliant and acerbic diagnostician leads a team of specialists. | 
| House |          | A brilliant and acerbic diagnostician leads a team of specialists. | 
| House |          | A brilliant and acerbic diagnostician leads a team of specialists. | 
+-------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

So, for the same program ID I saw three entries in the "program" table
and the scheduler wanted to record them all. The conflict arose because
one input was not available (it was going to be recording something
else). The end result is that two of the above entries were going to be
recorded and the other one was in conflict.

Given that the duplicate check method is "Subtittle and Description",
and that the above subtitles and description are seemlingly the same,
any ideas why the scheduler thought the above three entries were
different showings?

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-






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