<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I use original air date in some of my custom recording rules, so as not<br>
to record episodes that aired before a certain date, for example:<br>
<br>
program.title = 'Being Human'<br>
and program.originalairdate > '2011-07-01'<br>
<br>
This has worked perfectly up to now. Starting a few days ago I am<br>
noticing random episodes do not have the original air date. In the<br>
upcoming new season of "Being Human" on BBC America, the first episode<br>
has no original air date whereas the second episode has it filled in<br>
(2013-02-10). I have sent a complaint in to Schedules direct about this.<br>
In the meantime I have changed the selection to the following (which is<br>
not the best solution):<br>
<br>
program.title = 'Being Human'<br>
and (program.originalairdate > '2011-07-01'<br>
or program.originalairdate is null )<br>
<br>
Another way this lack of original air date shows is that when using<br>
mythlinks the original air date is shown as 000000.<br>
<br>
This may also affect the "New episode only" recording option, although<br>
that is not an option I use.<br>
<br>
Is anybody aware of this new problem and why this is happening?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have not seen a problem like that recently, however I did have a lot of issues with guide data in the past and came up with a workaround that seems to have worked for me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Essentially, I have found that often SD may not have complete episode data for some programs until as late as a few hours before the program airs... and instead just shows generic information. </div><div>
<br></div><div>I added a cron job to run at 5pm every night to execute "/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --refresh-today" to make sure I have accurate guide data before primetime shows air. </div><div><br></div><div>
Occasionally I will look at the upcoming episodes a day or so in advance and wonder why X isn't recording on its usual night, I check the guide and see that, sure enough, it just has generic listing information... but it does end up scheduling once that refresh runs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can't promise that doing this will resolve your issue, but it may?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>