[mythtv-users] Broken recording schedule behavior

[George Bingham]

Hi E James,

I was running the same version of myth on a 13.10 backend using EIT on OTA
broadcasts like you until I recently upgraded my box and myth to 16.04 and
0.28.

I have found that the EIT information that 0.28 presents is MUCH improved.
There were some fixes to how the EIT was processed. On my old system, the
major networks schedule info was generally correct, e.g. what information
was provided corresponded to the specific episode or movie. However, a
network's substation(s) info was generally incorrect. It would show the
correct program title, but the episode information was off (I think it
would show the episode information from 24 hours ago - which sometimes
would *look* correct, if it was a show that was on each day at that time,
but would have been for yesterday's episode, and other times it would be
for a totally different show).

Anyway in 0.28, the EIT info has been correct, for major networks and their
sub-stations.

Still, the EIT info is lacking season and episode information, so the
scheduler never knows whether an episode is a "new" episode or if it was
previously recorded, so none of those rules *work* exactly on my system.
Fortunately, I don't care about that much, as I generally review the
upcoming recordings and adjust appropriately in the evenings prior to
"prime time" anyway.

Still, I wonder if the EIT info you are presented is correct, or if like in
my case, it's off by 24 hours on some stations in your area - and so I
wonder if it would behoove you to upgrade.

Like you said "if it ain't broke...." but in my version it was broke, at
least as far as the EIT info on the set of sub-channels in my area was
concerned.

-- George

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:23 AM, E James <e_james at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 12/05/16 16:48, F.B. Parker wrote:
> >
> > I'm currently running MythTV under mythbuntu 12.04. It's been working
> well for years.
> >
> > I've just encountered some weird/broken recording schedule behavior. I
> have had (for years) a recording schedule to record the show "The
> Americans" (TA). Yesterday I noticed that TA did not show up in "Upcoming
> Recordings" in mythweb. Searching for "The Americans" with the mythweb
> search box gave no results.
> >
> > But I went to the listings in mythweb and went to the time TA comes on,
> and there it was. I deleted my recording schedule for TA and redid it,
> starting from the listing page in mythweb. When I did this, TA still didn't
> show in "Upcoming Recordings".
> >
> > The only way I could get TA to record was to do a manual recording
> schedule:
> >
> > "Record channel x on this date and time for 1 hour"
> >
> > That recording worked. But it seems that I am no longer able to search
> for or set up a "record at any time" schedule for "The Americans".
> >
> > Any ideas what may be happening here or how I might fix this?
> >
> >
> > -Bo Parker
> >
> >
> >
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> Perhaps my own recent experience has some relevance.
>
> I'm currently running MythTV 0.27 on Lubuntu 13.10 and using EIT for
> schedule details (Northern Ireland, UK). 13.10 is out of support and it has
> been quite some time since there were any updates but I am comfortable with
> the existing system - if it ain't broke....
>
> In recent weeks there have been some unexpected schedule issues.
> - Marvel's Agents of Shield has 2 showings a few hours apart and Myth
> doesn't seem to recognise the first showing as part of the series.
> - For several series Myth is rerecording episodes as if they were never
> recorded.
> - A recent showing of the western movie "The Professionals" was tagged for
> recording as if it was part of the TV series of the same name.
>
> Since the software hasn't changed, I must conclude that someone is getting
> careless with the schedule information.
> There are other examples which are unrelated to MythTV. (I only have
> access to 2 of the Freeview multiplexes. For other channels I have to use
> the internet.)
> - BBC will add viewing time, at the last minute, to an event which has
> been scheduled for months.
> - Channel 5 will broadcast an episode which is inconsistent with their own
> website. Sometimes it's not even the correct season.
>
> So the point is - if Myth doesn't record as expected, is it the rule
> that's wrong or is it the schedule that's wrong?
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