get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache automatically

[jon928se at gmail.com]

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From: jon928se at gmail.com <jon928se at gmail.com> 
Sent: 09 February 2024 10:05
To: 'Tom Guest' <tom at tjguest.co.uk>; 'get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org'
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Subject: RE: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache
automatically



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From: get_iplayer <get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org> On Behalf Of Tom
Guest
Sent: 09 February 2024 06:32
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Subject: Re: get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache
automatically

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>From jon928se at gmail.com
To get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Date 28/01/2024 02:50:46
Subject get_iplayer 3.35.0-MSWin32-x64 Web PVR not refreshing cache
automatically

>I think this started in version 3.34.0. It seems the web PVR is not 
>automatically refreshing the cache as it is supposed to, by default 
>every 4 hours.
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>I have Auto-Refresh Cache Interval and Auto-Run PVR Interval both set 
>to 4 hours. My installation is essentially exactly as the default 
>install apart from specifying different download folders for radio and tv.
>
>Jon - puzzled.
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I have also been experiencing issues with this in the web PVR on Windows
10 Pro with version 3.34.0. I've not yet gone to 3.35.0, but found that
there were issues with "hibernating tabs" in Vivaldi, my default browser.

For both the Cache and PVR Run tabs I went to the following address:
vivaldi://discards
and toggled the entry in the Auto Discardable column for them to disable
this status. Since doing so all is working well again.

I'm not sure if I will need to do this each time I start the Web PVR e.g.
after a machine restart. I think this applies to most Chrome-based browsers
as the original page I foumd mentioned was chrome://discards, Vivaldi
changed the reference. The hibernation seems to stop the reload specified in
the web page on initial load, 1 hour, 4 hours or whatever is selected in the
Settings section of the Search PVR page initially displayed when the Web PVR
is started.

Apologies if the formatting of this message is not quite right as have been
a read only user of the mailing list until now.

Tom Guest / Mr Jest

Tom, I think you may have the answer. However changing the autodiscard
option to off for the Web PVR and PVR Run pages in Chrome doesn't survive a
restart of Chrome. The chrome extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-automatic-tab-dis/dnhngfnf
olbmhgealdpolmhimnoliiok
seems to disable the autodiscard functions completely and permanently.

I'll let you know how well it works.

Jon

Well the Chrome extension I used successfully changes the autodiscard
function to permanently off so tabs do not hibernate, at least as reported
by Chrome. However the autorefresh cache function is still not working  so
am wondering if it is a get_iplayer issue. I had to leave it a few days to
ensure that I wasn't expecting the autorefresh to result in a new download
when there wasn't anything new listed in my PVR list.

Jon