Duplicate recordings because of EPG data

[teknubic]

I'm having a minor annoyance problem with the EPG data for sageTV and the news:
I have several favorites for local and national news broadcasts that show up on multiple tuners' lineups and since they don't have the normal episode number format or first-run/rerun flags in the EPG, I have 4 tuners recording the same exact show. On top of that, I have constant conflicts that really aren't conflicts because 3 other tuners are recording backup copies.
Has anyone else experienced this and how did you fix it?

[BobPhoenix]

First I didn't fix what I had unless just turning on debug_logging and leaving it on all the time is considered a fix.

But here is what happened to me.

I had the same episode of Stargate SG-1 recording on 3 analog tuners at the same time. But I only ended up with one final recording. Only reason I noticed it was I had a conflict with Stargate Atlantis where one shouldn't have existed. Haven't seen it occur again since then after I turned on debug_logging so that I could send SageTV meaningfull information. Been running that way for 2-3 months now with no problems. If you can recreate the problem please send them the logs as I haven't seen it again.

BobP.

[carlgar]

Originally Posted by teknubic

Has anyone else experienced this and how did you fix it?

You should be able to work around the problem by using options in favorites to limit to news shows to a specific channel or times.