Problem with 3.06 PVR

[RS]

From: Ralph Corderoy
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 5:26 PM

>I think it's changed again since 3.00.  The --expiry option defaults to
>four hours now;  if the cache is older than that then it is refreshed.
>(It's also refreshed if explicitly requested, or it doesn't exist.)

Hi Ralph

I don't think what is described in the v3.00 release notes was ever 
implemented.  I don't remember its ever working differently from the way you 
describe.  It does not appear to retrieve the whole of the this_week 
schedule in one go.  The most recent entry in my cache is 5 minutes before 
the time of the refresh.

> I always specify a very high --expiry option because I explicit refresh
>the cache once each morning, without waiting for it to finish, and then
>don't want it delay any of my later runs of get_iplayer during the day.

Thanks for reminding me about the --expiry option.  Someone did tell me 
about it a few months ago, but I couldn't remember what it was called and I 
could not find it in the documentation.  During the Proms I sometimes found 
I had started to download the wrong Prom because an unexpected refresh had 
changed the index numbers.  I agree that it makes sense to set it to about a 
month and I can then refresh under my control and when I want to.

Best wishes
Richard