[mythtv-users] Duplicate episodes recording

[Brian Long]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 11/15/2011 09:58 AM, Brian Long wrote:
> > I have a single recording rule which seems to be failing.  If I set
> > "Don Francisco Presenta" to record at any time on any channel, it
> > records from my HDHR and HDPVR at the same time.  Both episode titles,
> > descriptions, EP numbers, are the same.  I deleted the recording rule
> > and put it back.  When I look at upcoming recordings, it shows both.
> >
> > Why would duplicate detection be failing?  I could hard-code the rule
> > to the 1140 channel (HD-PVR), but then if there is a conflict it won't
> > fall back to the HDHR.  I have other similar rules which work
> > properly.  For example (from mythbackend --printsched):
> >
> > Title - Subtitle                    Ch Station Day Start  End   S C I
> > T N Pri
> > Designed to Sell - From Catastroph  350 HGTV    15 11:30-12:00  3 1 1
> > d 1 0
> > Designed to Sell - From Catastroph 1350 HGTVD   15 11:30-12:00  3 0 0
> > d E 0
> >
> > Thanks for any troubleshooting ideas.
>
> There's a long-standing bug where if you have multiple channels that air
> the same content at the same time, but have different callsigns (i.e.
> HGTV and HGTVD), MythTV will record the episode multiple times.  Note
> that you should only change the callsigns to be equivalent if the
> content shown on the channels is "substantially identical" (which, IMHO,
> means completely identical).  So, changing both to HGTV or HGTVD would
> work around the bug.
>

Good idea.  I forgot about that.

/Brian/
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