[mythtv-users] Duplicate Detection Not Working?

[Kenneth Emerson]

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
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