[mythtv-users] Problem with duplicate checking - new episode will not record

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Wed Aug 3 10:56:29 UTC 2016


On 3 August 2016 at 20:50, Jonatan Lindblad <mythtv at comhem.se> wrote:

> Den 2016-08-03 kl. 04:01, skrev Michael T. Dean:
>
>> On 8/1/2016 6:21 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 19:45:25 +1000, you wrote:
>>>
>>> Also check in oldrecorded also for any duplicates, it may differ to what
>>>> is
>>>> in recorded.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you - that was it.  It looks like my mother recorded, watched
>>> and deleted episode 2 last year.  She probably did a record once
>>> recording rule for that episode by mistake instead of a record all, as
>>> she does that occasionally.  So this year, now the series is being
>>> repeated, and she has managed to make a record all rule.  But episode
>>> 2 is in oldrecorded, so it will not record it again.
>>>
>>> I thought this was a new series, so I when I searched the list of
>>> previous recordings, I stopped at the first one (episode 1 this year)
>>> and did not search for anything older.  Using SQL to search
>>> oldrecorded showed the older recording immediately.
>>>
>>
>> Yep, you can do it the hard way and dig around the database and ask
>> questions on the list until you understand enough of the internal data
>> format and internal data usage to figure out what's going on.
>>
>> Alternatively, you can just go to the Upcoming Recordings screen in
>> mythfrontend, then find the episode it says it won't record and see why it
>> says it won't--something to the effect of "This episode was already
>> recorded", which indicates you should go to the Previously Recorded screen
>> in mythfrontend
>>
>
> And that is perhaps easiest done by hitting MENU and selecting "Previously
> Recorded", but it should also have its own entry in the main menu.  The
> former alternative will only show episodes for that title, while the latter
> will show previous recordings for all titles.
>
> Jonatan
>
> or even mythweb or the new WebFrontend as you cant always easily be in
front of a frontend when trying to diagnose these things, especially a
family members...

Cheers,

Anthony
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