At the moment you cannot get all recordings of the same show per day. For example if there are two episodes at:
09:00 PM
09:30 PM
You can select only one of them to record and the ANY option always picks the first.
Alan
That setting is referring to the same episode. If they are different episodes, they should both get recorded. Did you set to record extra time at the beginning or ending? This could cause a conflict as the tuner wouldn’t be available for the next episode and if you run out of tuners, it won’t record.
Actually they are two different episodes but because the title is the same the second one doesn’t get recorded. Another example of the LIMIT TO AIRING TIME list is:
Any
03:30 AM
05:30 AM
Completely different episodes titled ‘BBC World News’ but PLEX can’t record both if they are on the same day
Alan
If they are listed like that, then Plex thinks it’s the same episode. We’ve seen this happen with some news shows. They name their episodes with the name of the show and the date. So those recording both have the name “BBC World News - May 10, 2019” or whatever the date is. Plex cannot make the distinction if these are the same episode being re-aired or if they truly are different episodes. Unfortunately, there isn’t a fix for this.
Plex could add an option like you suggested to record all the episodes, but then when the episode gets added to your library, the later one will just overwrite the earlier one since it will be considered the same episode. Plex doesn’t have a way to keep 2 episodes aired on the same day for date based shows.
I think the ALL option would work because even if the show title is the same the actual recording in PLEX usually has the episode title as part of the name and it wouldn’t overwrite. Here is a better non-news example:
Oregon Experience (2006) - 2019-05-06 02 00 00 - Beach Bill.ts
If the recorded name is exactly the same then overwriting would be expected…
The news is not important to keep but I do want to keep other shows as they are historical. There were two back to back episodes recently, the 09:00 PM and 09:30 PM example I gave, and PLEX didn’t get the second one:
21:00 Oregon Experience-(Beach Bill)-2019-05-06-0.mp4
21:30 Oregon Experience-(The Spirit of Tek)-2019-05-06-0.mp4
This is from my old (Beyond TV) recording system which is still running so I did get the second episode.
I do see that the news example would result in the overwriting of the first episode but a better choice would be what BeyondTV does as they append the file name with ‘-0’ and a second recording is named with ‘-1’ etc:
BBC World News-2019-02-01-0.tp
BBC World News-2019-02-01-1.tp
Alan
Can you go ahead and add the ‘ALL’ option as it would get the shows that have different episode names as the ‘Oregon Experience’ example I gave?
The suggestion about renaming is a much bigger project and the ALL option would effectively get the last and newer episodes.
I’m not a dev so I can’t just add that. But in your case that won’t help. Like I said, if they are showing up in this way, then PMS thinks it’s the same episode. When it saves the later recording, it will overwrite the first one. What you need is a manual method to overcome this conflict in the names. That’s a lot more work than you think. I will ask if there is some work around but for now, it’s not possible to record both episodes.
The first example I gave is a PLEX recorded file name so the ALL option would get the second episode:
Oregon Experience (2006) - 2019-05-06 02 00 00 - Beach Bill.ts
Is there an official way to request the enhancement?
It may create the file with a different name, but internally Plex will still recognize the episode as being the same. It could potentially keep them both and have them as versions. I’m really not sure.
This thread is already a feature request so that’s as official as we have. Vote for it at the top and see how many others think this is also needed.
OK, thanks for your help.
It looks like an update has been made by adding the time to some recordings:
BBC World News (2019) - 2019-11-05 03 30 00 - BBC World News.ts
BBC World News (2019) - 2019-11-05 05 30 00 - BBC World News.ts
