New and Repeat Airings issue

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I’m not sure if this is happening with all series or not as this is the only series I currently have that I have previously aired recordings stored for. I have the series set to record “New and Repeat Airings” and I keep seeing something similar to this in my recordings calendar view for airings that have already been previously recorded.

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Even if I cancel the series recording or set it just to “New Airings Only” I see the following:

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When it comes time to record that time slot it ends up creating new files for each of them and adding to them appending “Copy (1)”, “Copy (2)”, etc. I’ve just been going in for now and deleting the “copies” as it seems like each of them leads to another instance showing up in the grouping on the calendar view.

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I removed and re-added my DVR and still had the issue. I then reloaded my Plex server completely from the ground up and the problem appears to have gone away. I’m guessing it’s related to having to remove/re-add DVR multiple times since the EPG switch getting something horribly out of sync.

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It looks like this problem returned as soon as the first episode got recorded

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I’ve never added/removed/modified dvr in any way and I’ve got loads of shows that seemingly record every single airing. There is some major issue in their matching algorithm.

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In this case it’s even stranger. It’s not scheduling the repeats to record unless it already has that episode recorded.

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I see this in the guide all the time too

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I’m having this issue too and it’s annoying!
@sa2000 , can you have someone look at this? I’ll post logs shortly

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Sorry I have not had time to look into this when it was raised. It appears to be similar issue to that here DVR | General Feedback & Issues - #87 by sa2000

May need Server debug logs covering time of a recording and after that when the same recorded item pops again in the to be recorded view. Also directory structure of where the recording went to and names / dates/times of the files/directory

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They may not be the same issue…the issue here seems to be related to a matching problem. The show in question is the US version of the show so the match from thetvdb was actually “Euphoria (US)” where the airing was just “Euphoria”. I changed the “Title” and “Sort Title” to just Euphoria in the library and locked the fields and I haven’t had the problem since.

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For me it’s a lot of current shows and old shows: seal team, s.w.a.t, big bang theory. Here are two that are coming up is big bang theory:

Plex Media Server Logs_2019-08-28_23-04-28.zip (4.6 MB)

  • /data/TVShows/The Big Bang Theory (2007)/Season 04/The Big Bang Theory (2007) - S04E12 - The Bus Pants Utilization.ts

/data/TVShows/The Big Bang Theory (2007)/Season 10/The Big Bang Theory (2007) - S10E20 - The Recollection Dissipation.ts

I actually re-enabled recording for this show as I didn’t want it to record over the original

Edit:
I went in and looked at all the recordings and found several that were recorded over the original

-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 1.2G Jul 20 19:32 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S09E20\ -\ The\ Big\ Bear\ Precipitation\ (copy\ 1).ts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users 1.9G Dec 19 2017 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S10E03\ -\ The\ Dependence\ Transcendence\ (copy\ 1).ts*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users 1.6G Dec 21 2017 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S10E05\ -\ The\ Hot\ Tub\ Contamination\ (copy\ 1).ts*
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 1.9G Nov 22 2018 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S12E01\ -\ The\ Conjugal\ Configuration\ (copy\ 1).ts
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 2.1G Nov 29 2018 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S12E02\ -\ The\ Wedding\ Gift\ Wormhole\ (copy\ 1).ts
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 2.0G Dec 13 2018 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S12E03\ -\ The\ Procreation\ Calculation\ (copy\ 1).ts
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 1.9G Dec 27 2018 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S12E05\ -\ The\ Planetarium\ Collision\ (copy\ 1).ts
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 2.1G Jan 9 2019 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S12E06\ -\ The\ Imitation\ Perturbation\ (copy\ 1).ts
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 2.0G Apr 8 23:03 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S12E07\ -\ The\ Grant\ Allocation\ Derivation\ (copy\ 2).ts
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody users 2.1G Apr 29 20:32 The\ Big\ Bang\ Theory\ (2007)\ -\ S12E09\ -\ The\ Citation\ Negation\ (copy\ 1).ts

This is just a sample of them. Apparently this may have been going on for some time.

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