[mythtv-users] Duplicate Detection Not Working?

[Hika van den Hoven]

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.


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