Server Version#: 1.22.1.4228 Player Version#: N/A OK, I thought this was (sort of) fixed, but very odd … two items recorded yesterday (XML info below). One of them, only the Sort Title is filled in, not Title nor Summary. On the other, all 3 are correctly populated. Huh? :laughing:. Any thoughts o…

It is because Plex sees the first show (the failed one) as the same episode as the second one that was already recording. Since there is a lack of anything that defines it as a different episode in the xmltv guide (that plex goes off of anyway), it will not record. Plex goes off of the Title of the…

[image] SystemAdministrator-2020: It is because Plex sees the first show (the failed one) as the same episode as the second one that was already recording. There are several different fields, including episode-num => is this not sufficient to delineate them? [image] SystemAdministrator-20…

That’s interesting then if they both recorded. It may have something to do with the way episode-num is used here (i.e. using the dd_progid instead of the SxxExx format), but I am not sure. If it were me, I would try adding the original air date tag to the xml guide data and see if plex will not on…

Will give it a shot, thanks! BTW, is your source code stored anywhere (e.g. GitHub)? Just to make it a bit easier to start from.

I uploaded here: [image] Same-name daily shows recordings fail to record Live TV & DVR (Please excuse the username, I am not a PLEX administrator in any way.) I created a simple program with python to fix this exact issue. It takes an xml guide input file (-i), an xml gu…

OK, checked out the code - it makes sense, very clear. Appreciate it. One thing I just noticed though … the “raw” file from SD (DD format), actually seems to contain (example one copied here), <originalAirDate>2021-04-04</originalAirDate> I can use that to set the episode-num (original-air-date). …

Thats great that it is working. Glad the code helped with clarity too. I am using Zap2It as the XML TVGuide provider, but using mc2xml as the program that goes out and gets it. Works quite well by specifying which dat file to use, and you can daisy chain a few calls to mc2xml if you need more tha…

Thanks for the pointers - will dig into this. Much appreciated!

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