Luke
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I noticed several months ago that UTV (Free view) and TV3 (Irish saor view) had the exact same series crid for their series. I had a screenshot of the webif schedule at the time but I deleted it.
These series had the same series crid and multiple events were listed in webif but the HDR only scheduled recordings related to the original recording.
Interesting.
The HDR has some additional logic that caters for not recording identical broadcasts from other channels (but not the prime channel). When the web-if scheduling was first being used IIRC there was a lot f talk concerning Home and Away recording too many times if the web-if was used. At the time Eastenders and Formula 1 were being given a change of series CRID when broadcast on a different channel despite them being the same series. IIRC with the unreliability of both C5 and BBC the Web-if was changed not to look for episodes on other channels.
Now that the BBC are getting is act together more often and that c5 are at least attempting to use CRIDs in the same way as the other channels what was expedient and appropriate then for the web-if is not necessarily the best solution now.
So far the closest I can theorise about what the logic the HDR-FOX uses is that if the HDR-FOX is scheduling a series it identifies all other channels that have an entry with the same series CRID (including the series CRID prefix). Then if any of the programmes ids for that series CRID on another channel matches any of the programmes ids (in the epg) for the series on the initial channel it ignores all episodes from that other channel. That logic would have the same result as I have obtain on my HD-FOX and HDR-FOXs when I have noticed series CRIDs across channels for either repeats or channel jumping. Whether it is the same logic as the HDR-FOX and HD-FOX uses I didn't know.
A question for you Border: What I found interesting about your freeview/saorview example is that it demonstrates that the HDR-FOX and HD-FOX may be using some other logic to decide what it schedules rather than my latest theory, unless you were only comparing part of the CRID. When the HDR-FOX reports the series CRID on the i-plate it also includes the prefix. Were you including all of the series CRID in your comparison or just the last part?
E.g. A BBC CRID of 'FP.BBC.CO.UK /R1A72N' is not the same as a channel 5 CRID of 'WWW.FIVE.TV /R1A72N'.
If you were comparing just the last part the that would account for why the HDR-FOX was able to differentiate between the two initially looking similar CRIDs in your example.