Understanding Future Schedule, Refresh Cache, Exclude Programmes

[MrArtist]

On 27/03/2012 02:01, Andy Bircumshaw wrote:
> 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.
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> Set up a daily cronjob:
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>       get_iplayer -z presetname --email you at yourdomain.com
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> 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.
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> 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.

Now you're getting technical; talking about cronjobs and sending myself 
emails! - I'm not adverse to using the command line and a bit of 
scripting generally but I haven't quite found out how that all works yet 
in relation to Get_iPlayer and I rely on the Web PVR Manager interface 
at the moment. Any useful resources out there that describe how to do this?

I can't imagine how you get the list of programmes down to about 30, but 
I guess with all those category exclusions it helps. My list of circa 
250 is fine for me in the Web PVR Manager interface, it can show up to 
400 programmes per page so all I do is scroll through the list and 
occasionally type something like "films" into the category box to 
specifically find the films.

I'm glad you found my programmes exclusions list useful, everyone will 
of course develop their own preferences for that and it's just a matter 
of adding anything new (and not wanted) that turns up to the ever 
expanding list.

Re category exclusions, I'm not sure I want to use these for fear of 
missing something that might come up. I already have removed most of the 
kids stuff by excluding CBBC and CBeeebies via the Channels list, but if 
say BBC one day decides to reshow something like 'Magic Roundabout', 
which I'd quite like to see again, then by excluding the 'Children's' or 
'Pre-School' categories then maybe I'd miss it? Also maybe it might 
mutually exclude something like a kid's film (categorised under 
Children's and Films) that I might want to see? (I'm not sure if that's 
actually the case, I'd have to test to see).

Many thanks.