[mythtv-users] how to skip a duplicate recording?

[Jim Abernathy]

On 8/12/20 5:47 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 17:36:54 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> On 8/11/20 4:54 PM, Ian Cameron wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 20:33, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      What is the proper way to tell Mythtv to not record one of them
>>>      but continue recording the series when it's available?
>>>
>>>
>>> I do that in MythWeb.  Under 'Upcoming Recordings', click 'Never
>>> Record' for the episode you don't want recorded.
>>>
>>> I can't help with achieving that in the FE though, as I don't use it
>>> myself.
>> The key phrase I was missing was Don't record THIS episode.  That only
>> affects the 1 recording. Actually found that wording in both
>> mythfrontend and mythweb.
> The correct names in mythfrontend are:
>
> 1) "Do not record this showing" to just tell MythTV to not record that
> episode at that time.  If there are repeats later (in the near or
> distant future), it will still record one of them.
>
> 2) "Never record this episode", which says that you never want it to
> record that episode now or in the future.  This is the one you want to
> use.


Yes, (2) is the one I should use. I see that some of these series keep 
recycling on different channels over the years and I'd like to avoid 
redoing this editing.

Thanks,

Jim A