[mythtv-users] UK Freeview Sky Arts different programid for the same episode in the onairguide

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 12:59:13 UTC 2021


On 20/02/2021 11:19, David Watkins wrote:
> Sky Arts was recently added to the UK Freeview service and I've added it 
> to my lineup.
> 
> MythTV is recording unwanted duplicates of the same episode.  I assume 
> this is because the onairguide data for that channel carries different 
> programid values for the same episode:
> 
> mysql> select chanid, programid,title,subtitle from program where 
> chanid=20011 and title like "%landscape%";
> +--------+-------------------------+------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
> | chanid | programid               | title                        | 
> subtitle                                |
> +--------+-------------------------+------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
> |  20011 | www.sky.com/g_s45061104 <http://www.sky.com/g_s45061104> | 
> Landscape Artist Of The Year | West Reservoir, Stoke Newington, London |
> |  20011 | www.sky.com/g_s45061174 <http://www.sky.com/g_s45061174> | 
> Landscape Artist Of The Year | West Reservoir, Stoke Newington, London |
> |  20011 | www.sky.com/g_s45061306 <http://www.sky.com/g_s45061306> | 
> Landscape Artist Of The Year | West Reservoir, Stoke Newington, London |
> |  20011 | www.sky.com/g_s45061256 <http://www.sky.com/g_s45061256> | 
> Landscape Artist Of The Year | West Reservoir, Stoke Newington, London |
> |  20011 | www.sky.com/g_s45060807 <http://www.sky.com/g_s45060807> | 
> Landscape Artist Of The Year | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford |
> |  20011 | www.sky.com/g_s45060843 <http://www.sky.com/g_s45060843> | 
> Landscape Artist Of The Year | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford |
> +--------+-------------------------+------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
> 
> 
> (I haven't listed the descriptions because they're too wordy, but 
> they're are identical for each of the two episodes above.  Series and 
> Episode numbers match as well)
> 
> All duplicate matching options in the mythtv scheduler seem to use 
> programid first and, if they're different then it doesn't flag a 
> duplicate even if Title,Subtitle,Description etc. are the same?
> 
> I haven't come across this issue before - is it a feature of Sky program 
> data?
> 
> At the moment I am creating 'ignore' rules for the subsequent showings.  
> Is there a better way?  Sod's law says that there are about 8 showings 
> of each episode of this series during each week - I have come to the 
> last episode though.
> 

I hadn't investigated this, but I have foundthat some recorded 
programmes there are reported as 'unrecorded' in the EIT -while they do 
show up on the 'previously recorded' page...



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