[mythtv-users] Scheduling conflict question

[Mike Holden]

Eloy Paris wrote:
> Here's what was in the database when the conflict existed:
>
> mysql> select title, subtitle, description from program where
> programid='SH006883590000';
> +-------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | title | subtitle | description
> |
> +-------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | House |          | A brilliant and acerbic diagnostician leads a team of specialists.
> |
> | House |          | A brilliant and acerbic diagnostician leads a team of specialists.
> |
> | House |          | A brilliant and acerbic diagnostician leads a team of specialists.
> |
> +-------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
> So, for the same program ID I saw three entries in the "program" table
> and the scheduler wanted to record them all. The conflict arose because
> one input was not available (it was going to be recording something
> else). The end result is that two of the above entries were going to be
> recorded and the other one was in conflict.
>
> Given that the duplicate check method is "Subtittle and Description",
> and that the above subtitles and description are seemlingly the same,
> any ideas why the scheduler thought the above three entries were
> different showings?
>

I've seen the scheduler get confused with programs that have a blank description with
that method. I always use "subtitle THEN description", which gets round that issue.
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