Not really. There have been a couple of attempts but they haven't borne any fruit.Originally Posted by edcba
I'm assuming you are talking about season passes and not getting multiple recordings of the same content when it is repeated at different times.
The real issue here is that the oztivo database needs to know which episode (not just which series) is showing at a given time. That information flows through to your tivo and your tivo can then recognise whether a showing is an episode you have already recorded (in which case, skip it) or not (in which case, record it).
There are two main ways that episode information could get into the oztivo database. One is for an automated system to get information about episodes. This is obviously the preferred long term approach, but it involves writing code and matching things up (significantly more complicated than we have currently), and this does not exist yet (although as I mentioned there have been a couple of attempts). The second is for volunteers to manually update the oztivo guide database, which can be done through a web interface in the same way that volunteers in some regions update oztivo to reflect late changes in scheduled programming. The problem here is that this involves manual work for every showing in every region (it may only be a few minutes each, but there are a lot of showings). Sometimes this happens, but it's patchy and region-dependent (at the moment Cairns probably has the best episode showing guide info in oztivo, thanks to Don).
If there is someone out there who is a PHP programmer and has spare time to volunteer on automating episode information, please let me know.
If you have some spare time and a web browser and want to help with the second approach for your area/region, see:
[URL="http://https://forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?2868-Looking-for-volunteers-to-update-local-guide-data&p=18689#post18689" Looking for volunteers to update local guide data[/URL]
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