I did some further testing and it seems like the one thing that is messing this all up is Plex using the time within the DVR recording filename. I installed a 3rd party agent that does just sporting events using www.thespotsdb.com information and it still had issues. When I removed the time from the file name it worked better. (still was not perfect) I tried to look at the XMLTV that Plex uses for when it sets up the guide based on when you install the DVR/Tuner but I dont know where Plex is getting the information from. Could we get an Admin to chime in on this to let us know if/when this will be fixed and also if we could get SportsScanner as an official agent,.
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Whilst the issue relating to mismatches on recorded sport events is still with the development team, I would like to suggest a different setup for recording sports events
Create a separate library for recording sport games.
Edit the library in Plex Web and then click âAdvancedâ
and scroll down until you get to the Agent and change that from âtheTVDBâ to âPersonal Media Showsâ
Let me know if it helps
I tried that first it still has issues because of the timestamp part of the file name. It all boils down to that time. When u record regular television shows it works fine and uses a perfect name but because the agent âtheTVDBâ doesnt have any sporting events it uses that terrible naming.
After refreshing the guide a few times it seems to be naming the games right now.
My problem is still with games that are on the NFL Network. They are marked as new airings and get recorded multiple times.
I am using cable cards with Verizon FIOS.
Channel numbers / lineup name / zip / dates and times of the ones still be marked as new. We have had replays corrected for some channeks
Channel: 588
zip: 21236
date and time: 9-18-2019: 3-7PM EST
9-18-2019: 8PM EST
9-19-2019: 12AM
Lineup name: Verizon FiOS Baltimore County Digital
Thanks
Thanks. I can see the issue regarding the âNewâ indicator. The times you have given me have gone now so canât go back and check - but i can see the issue in future airings. Those shaded in orange appear to be wrong
I will be raising this with our EPG team to address it.
Thank you!
So the âNewâ indicator issue I will be following up.
I need to establish though if we are re-recording the same game over and over - for your case.
So for these examples, I need to establish if the âTennessee Titans at Jacksonville Jaguarsâ game records Thursday 19 September at 20:20 EST and again Fri 2019-Sep-20 at 04:00 EST and 16:30 EST
I am getting duplicates over and over again. I log into my sever and there are 2 or 3 copies of the same game. They show up separately now.
what do you mean ?
I am doing a test recording now and will see what happens at the end. Only one is scheduled for the event (I advanced the PC time to get it to record now. I suspect the issue is to do with what happens at the end of recording - where we do not match the game correctly and change it - so when the repeat is processed, it does not realize there is one in the library - because of the mismatching. Anyway this is theory at the moment - i need to prove it)
I mean it is recording the same game over and over again. Not necessarily duplicate recordings at the same time, but even if it already exists in the folder it records it again.
I can see the issue arising because the show gets mismatched to âNFL.â after the recording completes.
I am now trying out the approach I posted earlier here NFL Recordings - #22 by sa2000
Until this issue is resolved Iâm using the following work-around:
Create a new Library of type Other Videos, specify as directory the place where the sports games are recorded (mine is /mnt/recorded-tv/NFL Football (2019)/Season 2019). All of the recordings appear in the new Library with full details with the exception that the time is 8 00 00 for all recordings.
Strange. It was working ok for me, then this weekend i have 4 different games under one file again and they are all named as the date.
I changed the recording time by like 1 second on each file and now they show up separately. When I watch 30 minutes of one file it shows all 4 files marked as watched for 30 minutes. I tried to mark the ones I had not watches as unplayed and it marked all 4 games as unplayed. That is strange and annoying.
DVR continues to be a dumpster fire and this is just the latest example of it. Last year Plex was correctly breaking out each episode of a NFL game but now every game recorded in a day is lumped together as a separate âversionâ under the same video.
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In my opinion there is one way to fix this. Give the DVR itâs own library instead of letting users choose which library shows and movies are recorded too. And that library getâs itâs meta data straight from the guide only.
At the very least having the system take guide data over any other metadata source would probably be the best
The approach I suggested here NFL Recordings where the sports events are recorded to a TV Library with the agent set to Personal Media Agent should resolve the multiple versions of same episode issue for all cases except the one where there is more than game event on the same day
I experienced the same. I thought that maybe it was something that I had accidentally brought on myself, but it appears that it not the case.
