[mythtv-users] Deep dark magic

[James Linder]

> On 10 Nov 2014, at 5:39 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
>>> I have a schedule rule to record the news daily:
>>> Schedule Options
>>> Record Any Time Any Channel
>>> Filters
>>> This Channel
>>> Duplicate Check
>>> None
>>> (Todays news looks like yesterday?s new: Subtitle etc)
>>> If the station transmits on multiple muxes (and it usually does,
>>> but not *allways*) I get two recordings.
>>> Same thing happens if I?ve recorded an episode from some series.
>>> As part of my trying to solve the issue I have set 1 tuner per card
>>> and I can see 2 cards being used to do the recording.
>>> What could I do to enforce a single recording?
>>> What can I do to see debug info on how the scheduler has chosen it?s actions?
>>> I?m getting zero byte recordings. If I look at the channel on
>>> LiveTV it ranges from good to bad (where bad is pixellated and
>>> squawky). If I scan there are multiple repeats of the channels. I
>>> suspect I may have choosen a *bad set* and I should rescan and try
>>> again. The logs are not very enlightning (from memory something
>>> like) ?Recording failed?. Any thoughts or opinions welcome.
>> Set it to record daily. I picks every day the one with the highest
>> priority and it than only records the second on failure. Unless
>> of cause you want to record more than one every day.
> 
> James, you should really specify your listings source.  This is 
> definitely good advice if your listings source treats news broadcasts as 
> they're treated in North America--as generic episodes (meaning duplicate 
> detection doesn't work on them).  If you're really in Samoa (guessing 
> based on e-mail address)
> 
> See https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching for help figuring out 
> how MythTV determines what to consider as duplicate episodes.

ws was takenaway from Westerm Somoa and became a TLD “Web Site”. c’est la vie
I use the EIT listings that work well for me.

My frustration is that the “Upcoming Recordings" shows only a single recording will be made, then SURPRIZE another occurs
Despite extensive searching I cannot find the “record daily” et al options anywhere.

James