[mythtv-users] Repeating previously recorded...

[Jason Bilbrey]

Thanks for the replies everyone.  Just to wrap this up I wanted to share
the final tidbits so that anyone else searching for this in the future
knows.

The reason my jobs were re-recording is because the auto-expire purge was
setting that as "re-record".  I used some SQL queries to change all past
recorded jobs to "duplicate = 1" and now for the last couple of days there
have been zero duplicates.  Thanks for everyone's help.

Jason


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 02/11/2013 11:24 AM, Jason Bilbrey wrote:
>
>> Ok, I thought that only marked a show as watched if you watched most of
>> the show but didn't go all the way to the end.  I didn't think it had any
>> effect if you didn't watch it at all.
>> According to this page from the MythTV wiki: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/*
>> *User_Manual:Detailed_**configuration_Frontend<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend>
>>
>>     If set, when you exit near the end of a recording it will be
>>     marked as watched. The automatic detection is not foolproof, so do
>>     not enable this setting if you don't want an unwatched recording
>>     to be marked for expiration.
>>
>> So will setting that really fix my issue?  I am certainly willing to try
>> it, but it doesn't seem like it will.
>> If MythTV can't handle the scenario (someone recording something but not
>> watching via the front end), I'm perfectly willing to write process that
>> updates the mythconverg database when I copy that show off my MythTV box to
>> mark the show as watched so that it doesn't re-record.  I just want to make
>> sure the functionality doesn't exist already in MythTV.
>>
>
> Why not write a script using the Python bindings to tell MythTV to delete
> the recording when you copy it off the MythTV box?  Why are you using
> auto-expire to delete recordings when you don't seem to want them in MythTV?
>
> The point is, there are 2 ways to tell MythTV that you don't want it to
> re-record an episode:
>
> 1) Delete the recording (using MythTV's Delete functionality--not by just
> deleting with file system tools) and do not say, "Delete and allow
> re-record"
> 2) Mark the recording as Watched (either using the setting that
> automatically does it when you watch the recording in the frontend or
> "manually" in Watch Recordings or using a script, such as one created with
> the Python bindings) and let MythTV delete the recording for you via
> auto-expiration
>
> technically, there's a 3rd way (which is what you've used so far), but
> it's not really usable long term:
>
> 3) Keep the recording around--as long as it's in "current recordings"
> (i.e. still in Watch Recordings screen), MythTV will check there, in
> addition to your recording history, for duplicates (assuming you've set it
> to check "current recordings and previously recorded"--which is the default)
>
> If you're trying to use some other non-MythTV frontend to watch your
> recordings, you'll have to do the work that mythfrontend normally does
> since your client doesn't do it for you.  In this case, it sounds like the
> best/most-straightforward approach to achieve what you want is to delete
> the recording when you copy it (i.e. using the Python bindings to tell
> mythbackend to delete it for you- http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/0.**
> 25_Python_Bindings/Data_**Handlers#Program<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/0.25_Python_Bindings/Data_Handlers#Program>and see
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/**Delete_recordings.py<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Delete_recordings.py>for an example), but you could--if you really want to use auto-expire for
> some reason--use the Python bindings to tell MythTV to mark the show as
> Watched.  ( http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/0.**25_Python_Bindings/Data_**
> Handlers#Recorded<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/0.25_Python_Bindings/Data_Handlers#Recorded>).
>
>
> Mike
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