Understanding Future Schedule, Refresh Cache, Exclude Programmes

[Andy Bircumshaw]

On 26 March 2012, at 23:35, MrArtist wrote:
> … 
> To shorten the normally long list of approx 1,000 programmes generally available, I had already mastered the art of using the Web PVR Manager settings box "Exclude Channels Containing" via the string: "CBBC,CBeebies,BBC Parliament,BBC News 24,BBC Alba". This helps bring the list of programmes to scan through down to a more manageable 450 ish, and until recently, when I finally got around to installing the Get_iPlayer updates, there used to not be a long desired for "Exclude Programmes" box and of the approx 450 programmes I used to wade through (ideally at least once a week), there were many I was just not interested in but have to repeatedly scan and think about to ignore. I now have entered a long string of programmes in that box, part of which is:
> casualty:,antiques road,songs of praise,bargain hunt,breakaway,cash in the attic,counting with rodd,doctors:,don't tell the bride,eastenders,eggheads:,flog it!,helicopter heroes:,homes under the hammer,saturday kitchen,snog marry avoid,stormont today,sunday politics,the national lottery,the one show,the paras,vets 24/7,waterloo road:,weakest link,white van man:,world's craziest fools,... - and many more.... - that now brings my list of programmes to scan through down to a much more manageable 250.


These are *great* excludes, but wading through 250 - 450 programmes?!?!?!

Use the command-line to set up a preset with these excludes and --since 25.

Set up a daily cronjob:

     get_iplayer -z presetname --email you at yourdomain.com

Now you have only c 30 programmes to browse through each day.

Because I *still* find these too much clutter from which to pick out good programming, I also send myself a --category films email every 4 days, too. This is a much shorter list.

You might also find it useful to exclude on the basis of programme categories (e.g. "children's,politics,news,sport,variety shows,Pre-School,Talent Shows,Soaps").

aB.