[mythtv-users] Duplicate detection

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/19/2016 04:24 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> I thought I had solved this problem by including the following in my
> daily listings cleanup script:
>
> # Force duplicate matching to rely on title, subtitle, description (or
> whatever
> # is set in the recording rule) by getting rid of program IDs which are not
> # consistent between listings sources.
> update program set programid="";

BTW, if your program IDs are done correctly, this is not required (it's 
actually a bad thing).  If the program IDs specify an authority (i.e. 
they include a '/', making it an ID in the form "authority/ID"), the ID 
is only used for comparison against other programs with the same 
authority.  And, every listings source should use a different 
authority.  Please check to see if your IDs (when inserted into MythTV's 
database) contain an authority.  If not, I think they will if you have a 
default authority in dtv_multiplex (for EIT-using channels) and/or 
channel (for XMLTV-using channels). Just make sure the authority is 
different for each different source of program IDs (and same for each 
individual source of program IDs).

Mike