[mythtv-users] phantom scheduling

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 20:25:25 UTC 2016


Thanks Mike, I'll make that adjustment.
On Jan 27, 2016 12:53 PM, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 01/27/2016 12:21 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2016 11:59 AM, "Daryl McDonald" wrote:
>> >
>> > Greetings Mythizens, I use cable and FTA sources to record from,
>> recently I'm noticing duplicate upcoming recordings for a single recording
>> rule, one on FTA (preferred, four tuners) and one on cable, that has caused
>> conflicts, but never really records. (one event shows up in watch
>> recordings, and two in upcoming recordings which occupies single cable
>> tuner)This occurs on overlapping channels with different xmlid's. It
>> appeared to do the right thing when I used the used the "only one
>> recording" and "this channel" switches but a couple days later the phantom
>> and conflict returned. Has anyone ever experienced this, or know a
>> workaround?
>> > 14.04 Ubuntu desktop with Myth.27 fixes Steppes wide.
>> >
>> > Daryl
>>
>> Could it be, because they have different xmlid's ( network station vs
>> network affiliate ie. ABC / WXYZ Detroit) and generic descriptions, that
>> Myth sees them as both viable events? So using coincident xmlid's would
>> solve?
>>
>>
> No, it happens because you have different call signs for the 2 channels.
> You may continue to leave them that way and things will continue as they
> are, or if the channels have "predominantly identical" content on them
> (i.e. the same show airs at the same time on both channels), then you can
> set them both to the same call sign so that they're seen as the same
> channel (in which case, MythTV will only schedule for recording on one).
> It would preclude your need to use "this channel" rules because when 2
> channels have the same call sign, they are considered the exact same
> channel.
>
> Mike
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