Avoiding cache refresh

[Howard Orgel]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 14:03:21 +0000, RS wrote:

> >From: Mark Carroll
> >Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 13:31
> 
> >>On 03 Feb 2017, RS wrote:
> 
> >> If I know the pid of the programme I want, is there any way to stop the
> >> cache refreshing?
> 
> >The manpage mentions --refresh-exclude and suchlike which might be worth
> >experimenting with.

Not necessarily for what you want, but read on.

> Thanks to you both for the suggestions.  As far as I remember --pid in the 
> first command for 4 hours will cause a refresh of the tv cache,

Bingo!

> which is why 
> I asked the question.  It's a bit difficult to test because I have to wait 4 
> hours from the last use and then wait another 4 hours if I get it wrong.

Understandable, but easily avoidable.  Increase the cache expiry time -
its default is four hours - by adding an expiry=<secs> statement to your
options file.  I have set mine to sixteen DAYS (1382400 secs), so:

get_iplayer --prefs-add --expiry=1382400

will increase the cache expiry time to sixteen days.  YMMV, so choose
whatever time you want.  The manpage entry referring is:

Config Options:
...
 --expiry, -e <secs>              Cache expiry in seconds (default 4hrs)

> --refresh-include with just the channel I want to download from may be the answer.

Dunno.  I prefer to use --refresh-exclude=.* to prevent unexpected cache
refreshes if sixteen days have elapsed since my last forced cache refresh.
You can always force a cache refresh manually at any time:

get_iplayer -f --force [type=< >]

Preventing an unexpected cache refresh requires an additional statement in
your options file, as above.

HTH

-- 
Regards, Howard.

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