working episode numbers for epg anyone? (1 Viewer)

[jameson_uk]

I was an avid djblu user using his series link information to series record, but as we all know due to time constraints this situation has altered.
If i set a recording via the inbuilt system of mediaportal say for eastenders on bbc 1 it will record these fine but if the schedule is moved to bbc 2 which happens some times then mediaportal as is would not record it as it set up to record from bbc1.
Now if i set it to record this program on any channel the schedule picks up all episodes regardless of whether they have been set to be skipped for duplicate recordings or not, for example on bbc 3 as a repeat, so it records bbc 1 at say 19:30 and then the same episode on bbc 3 at 22:00. so if i had better episode numbers the skip function in the tv server would i hope work better, but best option is the series record that mediaportal at present does not seem to have, now i may have missed something or not know all the information i require so please feel free to advise me better if that is the case [DOUBLEPOST=1370101044][/DOUBLEPOST]

What broadcaster do you want EPG data for?

I use fta satellite in the uk if this helps.
to get the data you have what exactly are you using ?

I use Digiguide which has decent episode info but I fear the problem here is that I doubt episode info is actually available for soaps (from any source be it over the air or otherwise).

One solution (not particularly pretty but would probably work) would be to use XMLTVGUI and write a little script to manipulate the xmltv output. For soaps you could add the date as the episode name (the title rather than the numbers) and use this to identify duplicates (but would fail if there are two episodes on the same day).

Unfortunately there is no universal standard for this and most providers handle this type of thing in propriety ways (DJBlu's fork handled Sky's way of doing this)

 

[kiwijunglist]

This could be easily covered by two additional schedule options:

Current options:

Record Once
Record every time on this channel
Record every time on every channel
Record every week at this time
Record every day at this time
Record weekends
Weekly on this channel

Additional options:

Record once daily on any channel
Records first program on any channel where the title matches the selected item each day
Record once weekly on any channel
Records first program on any channel where the title matches the selected item each week (Starting Monday)

Spoiler

Above is probably sufficient. We don't want too many options options in the GUI, but if you wanted a complete set you would also have

Record once daily on this Channel
Records first program on this channel that matches the title each day
Record once weekly on this Channel
Records first program on any channel that matches the title each week (Starting Monday)

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Just thinking off the top of my head (and in my situation where I have blank episodename, episodenum, episodepart, seriesnum, etc), the inbuilt duplicate checking which uses episodename will fail. So....

What if I combine the title string, with the description string (where I have removed the first say 5 characters and any [*] occurences), and then hash it and store it in a new column (or even the the episode name column). The hash will be unique to that program and its description (with any [R] repeats tags removed, and any "New" type words at the beginning gone) - that might give better matching.

Then when MePo comes to perform a duplicate check, it will check the hashes and see if they match - that way you could set it to record at any time on any channel - and hopefully it should only record once (assuming they have not changed the title and description)

J.