[mythtv-users] HBO Latino, how to manage Spanish language versions of stations

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed May 4 21:47:36 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:45 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:31:45PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:23 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:45:56PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> > > My parents get HBO and have HBO's various "Latino" stations as well. Seeing
>> > > as how we're Latino, and they speak Spanish fluently, they would like to
>> > > keep the channels in their lineup but not have recording schedules be
>> > > allowed to "hit" those stations unless they specifically ask to record
>> > > something on it.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> > > I've tried lowering their RecPriority to -1 and have the other HBO's to +1,
>> > > but that doesn't seem to have had any effect.
>> >
>> > That was going to be my first suggestion.  Why doesn't it work for
>> > you?
>>
>> Why? dunno, but when I do that and force a scheduler rerun it still
>> picks up the channels set to -1.
>>
>> I did notice that the  EP # for the english and spanish version are
>> different, but it looks like Myth only uses the Title for matches =/
>
> Yes, Myth only uses title for matching, but it does use programid for
> duplicate/same program detection.  If the episode numbers are
> different for English and Spanish versions, I wonder if the programids
> are different too.  I just checked and that appears to be the case.
>
> For movies, special or any other "single-shot" recordings, I suggest
> you use FindOne rules.  With the lowered priority for HBO Latino, that
> should work most of the time.  For series and recurring recordings, I
> think you're going to be out of luck unless you want to use custom
> rules.  Because the programids are different, Myth will always think
> the Spanish versions are different and try to record them too.
>
> David

If I were to create a rule for each of the English HBO's, would
duplicate matching catch if one has already recorded via a different
rule?


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