[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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