[mythtv-users] Problem with duplicate checking - new episode will not record

[Jonatan Lindblad]

Den 2016-08-03 kl. 04:01, skrev Michael T. Dean:
> On 8/1/2016 6:21 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 19:45:25 +1000, you wrote:
>>
>>> Also check in oldrecorded also for any duplicates, it may differ to what is
>>> in recorded.
>>>
>> Thank you - that was it.  It looks like my mother recorded, watched
>> and deleted episode 2 last year.  She probably did a record once
>> recording rule for that episode by mistake instead of a record all, as
>> she does that occasionally.  So this year, now the series is being
>> repeated, and she has managed to make a record all rule.  But episode
>> 2 is in oldrecorded, so it will not record it again.
>>
>> I thought this was a new series, so I when I searched the list of
>> previous recordings, I stopped at the first one (episode 1 this year)
>> and did not search for anything older.  Using SQL to search
>> oldrecorded showed the older recording immediately.
>
> Yep, you can do it the hard way and dig around the database and ask questions on the list until you understand enough of the internal data format and internal data usage to figure out what's going on.
>
> Alternatively, you can just go to the Upcoming Recordings screen in mythfrontend, then find the episode it says it won't record and see why it says it won't--something to the effect of "This episode was already recorded", which indicates you should go to the Previously Recorded screen in mythfrontend

And that is perhaps easiest done by hitting MENU and selecting "Previously Recorded", but it should also have its own entry in the main menu.  The former alternative will only show episodes for that title, while the latter will show previous recordings for all titles.

Jonatan