[mythtv-users] Scheduling bug? Two episodes at same time

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jun 23 15:47:55 UTC 2010


On 06/23/2010 10:30 AM, David Engel wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:38:53AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>    
>> Again, I'm pretty sure there's no bug here--just something else
>> going on that we're not recognizing.
>>      
> I think the problem might be that the scheduler assumes programs with
> the same title and starttimes on the same channel (callsign) are the
> same.  This is done in ProgramInfo::IsSameTimeslot().  If that's the
> case, it's a configuration error because the channels shouldn't have
> the same callsigns if they have different programming.  Now, if the
> programming is normally almost the same (the final group stage games
> being on at the same time is a bit of an anomoly), we might consider
> adding a programid check in IsSameTimeslot().
>    

Ah, thank you.  I hadn't even considered a setup with the same call sign 
on 2 different channels, but that would explain all the behaviors he's 
seeing.

Mike


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