<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 17, 2018, at 7:25 AM, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" class="">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 12/17/2018 07:12 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 14:37, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> Hi,<br class=""><br class=""> I'm trying to understand why my duplicate detection isn't working<br class=""> like I think it should. I record much of my stuff by power search<br class=""> including the example in this email, "Modern Family". I have<br class=""> "Duplicate Check method" set to subtitle and description, and<br class=""> "Check for duplicates in" set to "All recordings". As I<br class=""> understand it, that should mean that I don't ever record any<br class=""> Modern Family shows a second time. Using those settings I have<br class=""> three instances of the same show in oldrecorded, and it's due to<br class=""> record another instance soon. It seems like the oldrecorded table<br class=""> isn't being consulted at all when considering which shows to<br class=""> record. It does seem to be working for shows that are still in<br class=""> the recorded table.<br class=""><br class=""> MariaDB [mythconverg]> select<br class=""> title,subtitle,episode,seriesid,programid,duplicate from<br class=""> oldrecorded where subtitle like '%parade' order by title,subtitle;<br class="">+---------------+-----------------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+<br class=""> | title | subtitle | episode | seriesid |<br class=""> programid | duplicate |<br class="">+---------------+-----------------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+<br class=""> | Modern Family | I Love a Parade | 0 | EP01158124 |<br class=""> EP011581240251 | 0 |<br class=""> | Modern Family | I Love a Parade | 0 | EP01158124 |<br class=""> EP011581240251 | 0 |<br class=""> | Modern Family | I Love a Parade | 0 | EP01158124 |<br class=""> EP011581240251 | 0 |<br class="">+---------------+-----------------+---------+------------+----------------+-----------+<br class=""> 3 rows in set (0.01 sec)<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Another field to check is recstatus. If I want to make sure that a recording will get recorded again, I set this field to -9 for recordings that I want to record. Recstatus and duplicate control if a previous recording get recorded. If you don’t, the following page explains the old recorded table:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Oldrecorded_table" class="">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Oldrecorded_table</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>This link explains the values for recstatus: </div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/v0.27.3/mythtv/libs/libmyth/programtypes.h#L210" class="">https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/v0.27.3/mythtv/libs/libmyth/programtypes.h#L210</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div> I note that your duplicate field above is a value of 0 which tells mythtv to rerecord. If you don’t want them to re-record set them to 1. </div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>