Timer creation fails due to name mismatch with repeat flag

[DeltaMikeCharlie]

I'm not sure if this is a known issue, or indeed how many users this could impact.

I have set my test/dev IceBox to prepend the repeat flag to the title field.

This causes a timer creation to fail.  Here is an excerpt from my log:

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Title is not matching, do not schedule the show
Got [[R-DEV] Hard Quiz] but was expecting [Hard Quiz]
Show:
{'eventId': 1165, 'channelName': 'ABC TV', 'channelUuid': 'c80811a5c49a725d0bb2f3e6eb447f39', 'channelNumber': '0', 'channelIcon': 'imagecache/2', 'start': 1706686200, 'stop': 1706688000, 'title': '[R-DEV] Hard Quiz', 'subtitle': 'Series 8, Episode 18', 'description': 'Tom Gleeson is hanging on to the Big Brass Mug until one Hard Quiz expert can prove they deserve it - but with which topic? Australian parrots, cricket bats, bones, or WikiLeaks?', 'repeat': 1, 'subtitled': 1, 'image': 'http://images.icetv.com.au/17a6-dfb1-1fa9-d0e4.jpg', 'ageRating': 7, 'first_aired': 1672531680, 'copyright_year': 2023, 'nextEventId': 1166}
Timer:
{'id': '1706682258', 'device_id': 188516, 'channel_id': 2, 'name': 'Hard Quiz', 'show_id': 180966489, 'start_time': '2024-01-31T07:30:00+00:00', 'duration_minutes': 30, 'action': 'record', 'state': 'waiting', 'message': 'Created with Interactive web interface.', 'series_recording_id': 0, 'keyword_id': 0, 'rescheduled_by_tca': False}
Could not get event ID
Missing information from tvheadend, can't proceed
No timer changes, local cache was not updated
End timer update
I have not tested appending the repeat flag, however, I suspect that the result will be the same.

Matching the names is probably the best that can be achieved because AFAICR the XMLTV specification does not support an eventID field (something that I am looking into for TVH).  Perhaps that match could be a substring search rather than strict equivalence.

[raymondjpg]

I'm not sure if this is a known issue, or indeed how many users this could impact.

On the face of it, adding the repeat flag anywhere in the title field has been known to interfere with timer creation in IceBox pretty much from day 1.

Personally I like to see it in the EPG grid, so would hope at some point it could be implemented without interfering with timer creation.