[mythtv-users] duplicate shows being recorded

[Nick Morrott]

On 02/09/2008, James Armstrong <james at thearmstrongs.org> wrote:
>
>  On Aug 23, 2008, at 4:29 PM, David Watkins wrote:
>
>  > 2008/8/23 James Armstrong <james at thearmstrongs.org>:
>  >> Has anyone noticed lately a lot of duplicate shows being recorded? I
>  >> have been getting a ton of them and went into the schedule and it is
>  >> set for dup detection on subtitle and description.
>  >
>  > I find that matching on subtitle *then* description is more likely to
>  > do what I want.
>
>
> That is how I have been running since day one. Something has happened
>  lately. I have to go in a manually say never record on a bunch of
>  shows. One just recorded the same show twice in one week. I have not
>  changed anything so it must be the guide data. The only thing I can
>  see but don't know if it has changed is at the end of the Description
>  it has 'CC, Rerun' added. I don't know if that has always been part of
>  the description or if it comes from other flags and is being added by
>  Myth. I get the data from SchedulesDirect.org

If the subtitle and description information match, do the problematic
showings have different episode IDs in the listings data. I have no
direct experience of SD, but recall that the episode ID can be used
/before/ the subtitle/desription is taken into account.

Nick

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