Bug #1143
Bug #1108: Freesat series-link inefficiencies
Series recording not catching all episodes
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I'm using the UK: Freeview EPG Grabber, and I'm trying to set up a series link for the BBC One(HD) show 'Homes Under The Hammer'. Last week I set it up and it found everything up until Friday, but did not go further despite it having the EPG info for this week too. There's nothing unusual about these episodes, they're all on the same channel at the same time every week day.
Just now I've tried to set up another series link, but it's only found today. See attached screenshots for the current EPG info & the recording rules that it has set up. One of the other rules I have, Family Guy, has a similar problem where it did not find Sunday's episodes, possibly because they come an hour earlier than usual.
Let me know if I've missed anything you might need.
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Updated by Adam Sutton over 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Invalid
- Parent task set to #1108
The immediate problem is that the various EPG events for "Family Guy" are logged against different seasons. This is most likely happening because of the way Freesat do their seasons/episodes. Unfortunately episode URIs appear unique across channels, but season URIs are not.
This can result in problems in the TVH EPG database. It is a known problem that I have on my list of things to improve. There are two solutions:
1. The simple one - lock everything down to the channel, this is what I do for opentv at the moment (since its data is even more annoying).
2. The better one - have some form of data merging. I have some experimental code for this.
For now I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of #1108. It is on my list of things to do, I just need to get other stuff out of the way first.
Adam