[mythtv-users] Scheduling issue?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jun 3 11:32:04 UTC 2012


On 06/03/2012 01:14 AM, Michael Wareman wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something or have been doing something wrong - but
> updated to the latest -fixes (0.25.0+fixes.20120601.77394f0)
> from 0.25.0+fixes.20120528.d3a5b0a and have noticed that many-many more
> programs are scheduled to record - all really old. Things like years old
> MythBusters episodes - despite the Custom Record rule having 'New Episode'
> set on the schedule filter.
>
> My understanding of this filter (with reference to
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html) is 'One of the duplicate
> matching options is "Record new episodes only". If this is selected,
> listing that have an original air date of more than 14 days earlier are
> considered repeats and are not eligible to record.'
>
> My 'Search Phrase' is:
> program.title = 'MythBusters' AND program.hdtv>  0 AND
> program.previouslyshown = 0
>
> I have the schedule filter 'New Episode' set - so only episodes with an
> 'Original Airdate' within the last two weeks should be scheduled. Certainly
> - until the recent -fixes update that seemed to be the case. Yet much older
> episodes are now showing up to be recorded. Not just for this one rule
> either - but all my rules. My backend has suddenly become really busy
> recording old episodes I don't want to be recorded.
>
> Adding ' and datediff(curdate(),program.originalairdate)<  14' to the
> search phrase seems to solve this for the time being - but I'm trying to
> figure out what changed and if it was intentional (ie: am I going to have
> to add this phrase to all my recording rules?).
>
> Has anyone else noticed unexpected recordings being scheduled recently?

Almost definitely mythfilldatabase breakage.  Please provide a 
mythfilldatabase log.  (I'm guessing your mythfilldatabase is taking 
ludicrously long time to run--due to having barriers enabled on your 
file system with MySQL data files--and is getting killed before it 
finishes.)

Mike


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