[mythtv-users] "New Episodes Only" filtering for recording rules

[Martin Moores]

On 13 June 2011 20:23, Jeffrey Hahn <jmhahn at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I've seen a similar issue with recording Merlin on Syfy in the US. The
> original airdates were not the same as the date they were premiering
> here, so it was considered a rerun on the schedule. I made a custom
> power search to handle it:
>
> channel.channum = '829' AND program.title = 'Merlin' AND
> datediff(now(),program.originalairdate) < 365
>
> You'd want to change the channel number and title, of course, and it
> assumes you will get the show within 1 year of the original airdate.
> With duplicate detection set to "Subtitle and Description" and no
> filter, I've never had a false positive and never missed a new
> episode.
>
> -Jeff
>

I am using xmltv data, which has been much better than EIT so far.

The first example of this is CSI: High And Low, which is on Five USA on
Wednesday at 12:40, this episode is from 2002, but not marked as a repeat
and shows an original airdate of 2011!

I did think about setting the rule to just record from channel 5, but then
if for whatever reason that showing was missed, but it was repeated on
another channel, myth wouldn't schedule it on another channel, unless I
mis-understood how that works.

I guess duplicate detection doesn't work here, as I have only ever recorded
new showings of CSI, never all the re-runs, so myth wouldn't pick these up
as previously recorded etc.  It does work well with picking the new showing
each week (my rules are find and record one showing each week, apart from
the odd time where the new episode is missed in its normal timeslot and a
re-run is recorded instead, never got to the bottom of that).  I guess if
these re-runs are not marked as repeats or generic, then myth would not know
not to record them, so it is only as good as the data it gets.

Thanks for that rule Jeff, will give that a try

Cheers
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