Non-Unique Unique_id......

[gEd]

I was tempted to title this thread, "toast always falls jam side down..."

Last night, NPVR just failed to record this show for my wife.
Title=Strictly Come Dancing
Subtitle=Strictly Come Dancing: The Results: Part Two"
Season=12
Episode=9
Unique_id=Strictly Come Dancing-S012E009

and the reason is that the previous evening, we watched and then deleted

Title=Strictly Come Dancing
Subtitle=Part One
Season=12
Episode=9
Unique_id=Strictly Come Dancing-S012E009

2014-11-16 05:12:49.787 [DEBUG][10] LoadListingsMatchingTitle(channel=7612,title=Strictly Come Dancing)
2014-11-16 05:12:49.791 [DEBUG][10] - Potential episode at: 16/11/2014 19:15:00
2014-11-16 05:12:49.791 [DEBUG][10] ...check IsValid()
2014-11-16 05:12:49.791 [DEBUG][10] ...this episode is on Sunday
2014-11-16 05:12:49.791 [DEBUG][10] ...valid days are: SUNDAY
2014-11-16 05:12:49.792 [DEBUG][10] ...already got this episode: Strictly Come Dancing-S012E009 (recently deleted)
2014-11-16 05:12:49.792 [DEBUG][10] ...already got this episode scheduled

bugger.

It just *had* to be the wifes' show and not mine didn't it. So that's multiple months of kudos for reliable recording out of the window then..! I hope you feel my pain.

So it appears that the broadcaster is not sending out unique_id's after all then. I think the idea is that "an episode" of "Strictly" is comprised of the show on saturday evening and then the results show on sunday.

I have disabled avoid duplicate recordings for the time being but I find this feature really useful and am loathe to loose this feature just b/c of this "damn programme".

Any advice on what I can do next?
Would it be feasible to submit a feature request to include the option to generate a unique_id based on title+subtitle+SXXXEYYY?

cheers

[sub]

Sorry, I encountered this myself, but I should have anticipated it.

Do you still have the xmltv file? I want to see how it specified the season/episode for these part shows.

If it's got a part specifier, I should include this in the unique id.

[gEd]

thanks Sub, here you go. Can't see any part specifier though..


<programme start="20141122190000 +0000" stop="20141122201500 +0000" channel="UK_RT_2667">
<title lang="en">Strictly Come Dancing</title>
<sub-title lang="en">Part One</sub-title>
<desc lang="en">After the excitement of Blackpool Tower Ballroom, the pro-celebrity couples make their way back to the studio - and with Judy and Anton having been voted out last week, the competition will be more tense than ever. But there will be plenty of spinning and sequins as the hopefuls tackle a number of demanding routines in the hope of getting their names at the top of the leaderboard. Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present, while Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Darcey Bussell are the ones to impress. The results are tomorrow at 7.15pm.</desc>
<category lang="en">Entertainment</category>
<length units="minutes">75</length>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">11.9/14.</episode-num>
<video>
<aspect>16:9</aspect>
</video>
<subtitles type="teletext">
<language lang="en">English</language>
</subtitles>
</programme>

<programme start="20141123191500 +0000" stop="20141123200000 +0000" channel="UK_RT_2667">
<title lang="en">Strictly Come Dancing</title>
<sub-title lang="en">Strictly Come Dancing: The Results: Part Two</sub-title>
<desc lang="en">Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present the results from last night's show, revealing which of the eight remaining couples have received the fewest votes and will face each other in the dance-off, their fates in the hands of judges Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Darcey Bussell. Barry Manilow provides the music, singing an old favourite, and the professionals perform another routine.</desc>
<category lang="en">Entertainment</category>
<length units="minutes">45</length>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">11.9/14.</episode-num>
<video>
<aspect>16:9</aspect>
</video>
<subtitles type="teletext">
<language lang="en">English</language>
</subtitles>
</programme>

[sub]

That's annoying. It's supposed to be after that second "." in the <episode-num> tag.

[gEd]

So to close this off Sub, you'll consider adding the part number (if present) to the unique_id in a future release?

On the basis that I can't get my epg source data fixed, I will add this SQL command to my postprocessing.bat to append subtitle onto the end of unique_id in epg_events as a custom hack. The column is varchar(50) so that should be enough room.

UPDATE EPG_EVENT SET unique_id =unique_id || subtitle;

cheers.
john

[sub]

So to close this off Sub, you'll consider adding the part number (if present) to the unique_id in a future release?

Yep. I noted it down.