[mythtv-users] Both EIT & Schedules direct?

[Gavin Peters (蓋文彼德斯)]

Thanks Stuart.

I wonder how insurmountable these duplicate identification problems are. It
surely would be nice to adjust shows when sports events run long. I'll take
a peek.

- Gavin

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie <
stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:

> On 02/10/15 11:04, Gavin Peters (蓋文彼德斯) wrote:
> > Is using EIT to supplement schedules direct working? Many broadcasters
> > are quite good now about updating EIT when program schedules change (for
> > instance a sports event goes long), so it seems very desirable to use
> > EIT to update your existing information.
> >
> > How well does myth manage this merge now? What are the issues?
> >
>
> Each assumes they are the sole source of guide data and overwrites
> the others data.
>
> They tend to have differing title/subtitle/description contents
> for the same shows, which throws duplicate detection off.
>
> And generally it's a bad idea.
>
> Use one guide source per channel, not multiple. ie you can use
> both, provided there is no overlap between the channels being
> updated via that method.
>
>
> Regards
> Stuart
>
>
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