[mythtv-users] previously recorded repeats still recorded

[Dan Littlejohn]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 05/31/2011 10:15 AM, David Engel wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 08:55:06PM -0500, Dan Littlejohn wrote:
> >> mysql>  select * from oldrecorded where programid='EP003351720242';
> >>
> +--------+---------------------+---------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+----------------+--------+----------+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+
> >> | chanid | starttime           | endtime             | title    |
> subtitle |
> >> description
>    |
> >> category | seriesid   | programid      | findid | recordid | station |
> >> rectype | duplicate | recstatus | reactivate | generic |
> >>
> +--------+---------------------+---------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+----------------+--------+----------+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+
> >> |   2135 | 2010-03-08 19:00:00 | 2010-03-08 20:00:00 | Top Gear |
>    |
> >> Jeremy and James set out to create a memorable Volkswagen TV ad; Jay
> Leno. |
> >> Auto     | EP00335172 | EP003351720242 |      0 |      356 | BBCA    |
> >> 5 |         0 |        -3 |          0 |       0 |
> >> |   2135 | 2011-05-02 19:00:00 | 2011-05-02 20:00:00 | Top Gear |
>    |
> >> Jeremy and James set out to create a memorable Volkswagen TV ad; Jay
> Leno. |
> >> Auto     | EP00335172 | EP003351720242 |      0 |      356 | BBCA    |
> >> 5 |         0 |        -3 |          0 |       0 |
> >> |   2135 | 2011-05-30 07:00:00 | 2011-05-30 08:00:00 | Top Gear |
>    |
> >> Jeremy and James set out to create a memorable Volkswagen TV ad; Jay
> Leno. |
> >> Auto     | EP00335172 | EP003351720242 |      0 |      637 | BBCA    |
> >> 4 |         0 |        -3 |          0 |       0 |
> >>
> +--------+---------------------+---------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+----------------+--------+----------+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+
> > The duplicate flag for all of your previous recordings is 0.  This
> > tells MythTV to ignore those entries for dupliate detection.  You
> > either chose the "allow re-record" option when deleting them, or, as
> > Kevin Ross noted, you have your auto-expire settings such that it
> > automatically gets cleared then.
>
> Change the setting:
>
> Re-record watched
> If enabled, programs that have been marked as watched and are
> Auto-Expired will be re-recorded if they are shown again.
>
> in mythfrontend General settings.
>
> Mike
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Thanks to all that responded, I believe I have figured this out and it is
... wait for it ... user error (or inexperience).  This has been a low level
annoyance for a long time that I have never made time to figure out.  For
some reason even though I have been messing with MythTV for years and years
the "watched" flag was some how unfamiliar to me.  I found that the programs
being watched were not being set as "watched" because I do not use the
automatic popup at the end of a recording and in the settings the Setup->TV
Settings->Playback->"Automatically mark a recording" flag was not set.
Don't know if that is set by default now, but for my setup I set the
automatically mark a recording flag, tested it, and it works.

Thanks!

Dan
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