[mythtv-users] Programs being recorded twice with 0.28

[Mike Bibbings]

On 14/05/16 13:57, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
> I upgraded to 0.28 yesterday. I see this morning that two programs
> recorded the same episode twice. This has never happened before. I use
> schedules direct. Both copies of the duplicate recordings have the same
> title, subtitle and description, and the same program id.
>
> One program was recorded at 8 PM and again at 3 AM on the same channel.
> The 8 PM recording shows an orange border in the listing, so I suspect
> it is flagged as bad, but there seems to be nothing wrong with it. The
> recording rule is a power search with duplicate checking as subtitle,
> check duplicates in all recordings.
>
> The other program was recorded at 10 PM, two copies recorded at the same
> time from different channels. The recording rule has the normal
> duplicate checking settings duplicate checking subtitle and description,
> check for duplicates in all recordings.
>
> Before the show times, the upcoming recordings did not show that two
> copies were to be recorded.
>
> Is there some new setting I am not aware of, that is affecting this?
>
> Other programs were recorded without duplicates.
>
> Peter
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Peter,

I have been running 0.28 for many months and have seen this 
occasionally, in my case it was caused by Guide data.

You could have a look at the output from running "mythbackend 
--testsched" in  a terminal, it might give some clues on what is going 
on. The command lists what is going to be recorded, together with 
information on Video Source, Inputs etc.


Mike