[mythtv-users] Strange scheduling behavior: duplicate events in "Upcoming Recordings" in MythWeb

Douglas Peale Douglas_Peale at comcast.net
Thu Oct 28 20:21:39 UTC 2010


On 10/28/2010 01:09 PM, David Engel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:27:19PM -0700, Douglas Peale wrote:
>> On 10/28/2010 12:07 PM, David Engel wrote:
>>> Only one showing of House is scheduled to record.
>>>
>>>> "The Event"                        11.1 KNTV-HD 08 20:55-22:05  1 5 5  A 5 2
>>>> "The Event"                         8.1 KSBW-DT 08 20:55-22:05  4 17 17  A 1 2
>>>
>>> Both showings of The Event are scheduled to record.  That's expected,
>>> though, because generic episodes on different channels aren't assumed
>>> to be the same.
>>
>> Generic episodes don't generally have episode descriptions like "The Event" does.
> 
> Non-generic episodes usually have subtitles.  What are the programids?
> If programids are present, nothing else matters.
> 

I'd be happy to tell you if I could figure out how to get one of these tools to tell me the program ID. (minor rant: sometimes
making things "user friendly" by hiding the internal workings makes it hard to debug, and therefore user unfriendly).

>> At the very least mythweb is broken since it is not reporting the same thing as the front end. Currently it is showing duplicate
>> recordings for "House: Office Politics" while re-running the above test shows duplicates of "The Event". MythWeb while not
>> showing an episode title, is showing a complete description of the episode.
> 
> I'll leave that for the mythweb guys to sort through.
> 
>> BTW, I continue to refer to mythweb because the mythweb format for Upcoming recordings is readable whereas the frontend listing
>> is so cluttered with events that are not going to record that it is hard to follow.
> 
> MENU / Show Important

Yes that helps, but MythWeb is still easier to read.
> 
> David


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