how long does gbpvr remember duplicate shows?

[johnsonx42]

With the "don't record duplicates" option checked, how long does gb-pvr remember past shows? I originally thought (assumed?) that it would only know about those shows currently recorded, but lately I've discovered it not scheduling some shows that aren't currently on the drive. I don't doubt they did record at some point in the past, so I'm guessing then that gb-pvr is remembering that the show was recorded before even though it's cycled off the drive already.

[isgdre]

I just asked a similar question got this for a reply.

Also it seems you must use Schedules Direct for it to detect them correctly in the first place.

The history that is kept defaults to the relatively short period of 40 days, and is primarily designed to minimize the changes of re-recording the same episode that might rerun more that ones a week etc. You can run 'pvrx2.exe -remotehistory' if you need it to start recording re-runs again.

The amount of days can be tweaked in the <RetainedPreviousEpisodeDays> setting in config.xml.

If the series you're interested in watched a long time ago, and was deleted more than 40 days ago, then you dont need to do anything.

[johnsonx42]

Ah, thanks, I should have searched first. 40 days is fine, now that I know what it is and how to change it. My TiVo used the same logic, but was set to 30 days (no doubt there was a hack to floating around to change it)

any idea if sub meant '-removehistory' instead of 'remotehistory'? remove certainly makes more sense.

[sub]

Yes, I meant '-removehistory'.