[mythtv-users] Duplicate Detection Not Working?

[Larry Kennedy]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 9:35 AM Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can you explain what you tweaked?
>
>
I set "Duplicate Check Method" to "None" and "Check for Duplicates in"  to
"All Recordings."

Not sure this makes any sense, but things got better for me.



> -- Ken Emerson
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 8:22 AM Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 4:34 PM Kenneth Emerson <
>> kenneth.emerson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2022, 12:08 PM Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hoi Kenneth,
>>>>
>>>> Saturday, June 25, 2022, 6:14:07 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > I have noticed within the last few months that I am getting old
>>>> > shows that have previously been recorded being queued to record
>>>> > again.  I can't say for sure how long this has been happening, but
>>>> > perhaps as long as a year.  It has become obvious as the current
>>>> > season ended and 'new' episodes have popped up that have previously
>>>> aired, been watched and deleted.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I've compared the episode data of the 'new' recording with what is
>>>> > in the recorded table and the ProgramID, Title, Subtitle and
>>>> > Description are identical.  I found in the archives of this forum a
>>>> > response from Peter Bennett responding to another user who was
>>>> > having trouble with duplicate recordings.  The takeaway from his
>>>> > response was the value of the field labeled 'duplicate'.  He said
>>>> > that if this field was a zero (0), it would re-record.  I checked in
>>>> > my database and found that most, if not all, of the table's records
>>>> > were zero.  The same was true for the table oldrecorded.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I'm tempted to just set this field to a 1 for all records, but not
>>>> > truly knowing what this field is used for, thought I'd take a minute
>>>> > and ask the MythTV users for some more context.  I've already spent
>>>> > 1-2 hours going through some recordings, that I never delete,
>>>> > searching for and removing duplicates and was hoping I could find a
>>>> > way to make the duplicate checking start working again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I am currently using:
>>>> > mythbackend - v32.0+fixes.202206242147.501f85b389~ubuntu20.04.1
>>>>
>>>> > mythfilldatabase - v32.0+fixes.202206242147.501f85b389~ubuntu20.04.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Ken Emerson
>>>>
>>>> Did you actively delete the previously watched or did you let them
>>>> auto expire? If the latter, there is a setting under the auto expire
>>>> settings: "Re-record watched". Possibly you have this setting enabled.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tot mails,
>>>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>>>
>>>> De lerende Mens
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hika,
>>>
>>>
>>> That's a good catch; alas, I only let recordings expire due to a max
>>>> limit that I set in the recording rules.  Once an episode is watched, it
>>>> gets deleted without the option to re-record.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ken Emerson
>>>>
>>>
>> When I switched to myth v31 with the new SD grabber, I noticed a show
>> that used to record without duplicates started recording past episodes.  I
>> reported it and was told that this particular show never supported dup
>> detection, but somehow I never got the dups before.  Maybe mythtv V30
>> handled it, or maybe it was a change in the data, but I had to go into the
>> recording rule and tweak the options to get a better result.
>>
>>
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