[mythtv-users] Duplicate program ID - UK radio times data

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 10/21/2012 08:51 AM, John Veness wrote:
> On 20/10/12 19:21, Stephen Robertson wrote:
>> I'm seeing an issue where two shows are being given the same programme
>> ID. Each week the Saturday night X-Factor show and the Sunday night
>> results show seem to be given the same one. This is on ITV1 HD.
>>
>> I'm not sure at what stage the ids are generated, whether by the data
>> source, the grabber or myth?
>>
>> Firstly is this a general problem or is it just something wrong with my
>> setup.
>>
>> Secondly assuming that it is a general issue what's the best way to deal
>> with this? Turn off duplicate matching and manually disable all the
>> duplicate showings?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Stephen
>
> I had a problem with the latest episode of QI XL not recording.
> Looking back in Previously Recorded it didn't record because Myth
> thought it had been recorded previously, even though it's a brand new
> episode. It looks like it incorrectly has the same episode ID as the
> episode from last week, even though the episode title and description
> is different.
>
> Is there any way to tell Myth to not use the episode IDs for duplicate
> matching, and instead to use whatever option is selected in the
> recording rule, e.g. "Subtitle then Description"? It's rather
> confusing having that option in the recording rule then finding that
> Myth doesn't actually use that to run duplicate matching.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
I have a similar problem, with Schedules Direct in the US and Comcast.
The episode of "Go On" from September 11th was rebroadcast on September
14th, with the subtitle from the September 11th episode, a new
description, and the programid of the following week's episode. The
result is that I got that episode recorded twice and the following
episode was not recorded since mythtv had it as "already recorded". If
mythtv could use the subtitle as well as the programid to determine a
duplicate this problem could be avoided. (only treat it as already
recorded if both the programid and the subtitle match).

Peter