[mythtv-users] MythTV stops recording shows

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Michael,
>
> Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 3:53:09 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 05/27/2015 09:38 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> With my grabber, that reaches some 14 days in the future, they become
>>> more detailed, when they are nearer. The most detailed source only
>>> reaches 4 days. So it can happen that at first it can happen it is
>>> seen as a duplicate, because detail description and episode info is
>>> missing and then when the details arrive, it is scheduled as a unique
>>> new episode.
>
>> In theory, if detailed description and episode info is missing, the
>> episode should be marked as a generic (defined as any show whose program
>> ID, subtitle, and description are empty; or whose program ID is empty
>> and category type is series; or (for Schedules Direct users) whose
>> program ID ends with '0000').
>
> Good. But with me then most of the time description is not missing,
> but only contains generic info about the series. So they are matched as
> duplicates.

And they have a non-zero/non-empty program ID?  Which matches a
previously recorded program ID?

Eric