The Program Guide recognizes when I have a TV show already in my library, for instance under the “My Upcoming Shows” category. However it does not seem to recognize that I already have a movie in the library; it allows a recording to be scheduled and duplicates the movie in the library. Is there a setting I’ve overlooked somewhere? Any tips or tricks to avoid recording movies already in my library?
Can you provide more information? What libraries are you dealing with? Are you recording to the same library as the file you say is in the library? When I first started with Plex I had a TV Shows, Movies Library, DVR TV Shows, and DVR Movies libraries. Plex would always record every episode of a TV Show whether it was in my TV Shows library or not because I was recording to the DVR TV Shows library. Once I started recording to the TV Shows library I have never seen an episode recorded if I already have the episode unless the new recording would be a higher resolution than the file already in the library.
I have a single TV Shows library and a single Movies library. TV Shows work perfectly. My only issue is with movies.
Can you provide screenshots and logs?
I also have this problem, I have 3 libraries, one for Films, one for TV Shows (which I have ripped from DVD’s), and another for TV that has been recorded. It seems Plex DVR only checks the library it is set to record to, when ideally it would check all libraries, as OP states duplicate movies are undesirable, and I have no reason to record shows that are already in my other TV Shows library.
No, don’t check any library but the one it’s set to record in. Many of us use libraries specific for DVR so that we CAN record stuff already in our libraries. I do this myself. I may have an SD version of a movie or show and want to replace it but before this happens automatically I want to verify I have a good recording and can cut out commercials successfully before replacing the file.
Same for Movies with the same name but different year. Right now Plex ignores the year and won’t record it since it appears to be a dupe. By recording to another library you can work around issues like this that pop up.
Carlo
Despite my best efforts, I’ve been unable to duplicate the issue. Perhaps an update along the way fixed my issue, or it was only an isolated incident or two.
I agree with cayars; at least by default only check the library it is recording in. Maybe a setting to select other libraries to scan would be desirable for others users.
@cayars said:
No, don’t check any library but the one it’s set to record in. Many of us use libraries specific for DVR so that we CAN record stuff already in our libraries. I do this myself. I may have an SD version of a movie or show and want to replace it but before this happens automatically I want to verify I have a good recording and can cut out commercials successfully before replacing the file.Same for Movies with the same name but different year. Right now Plex ignores the year and won’t record it since it appears to be a dupe. By recording to another library you can work around issues like this that pop up.
Carlo
How does this work - do you have a separate library on your sidebar or a separate folder mapping? I have a single TV library but two different locations for my TV shows - different volumes on my NAS. If you have two different libraries on the sidebar you can skirt around the issue of things like Plex not recording a rebooted TV show if the original one is in your library?
What I was saying is this. Setup “TV Shows” and “DEV Shows”. Then you should easily be able to record shows you already have without worry of them getting overwritten by new copies. You can then manually check and copy the files over if you wish to.
