On 18 August 2011 21:11, Jon Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > I've been a happy command-line user of get_iplayer fro quite a while > now > ... running fine under Gentoo, mainly to grab radio content. > I'm a little bit puzzled about one aspect of this though. It looks as though I > have to manually click on the 'Run PVR' tab at the top of the screen to cause > the get_iplayer process to actually do the downloading .The page there says > "The PVR will auto-run every 4 hour(s) if you leave this page open". > > What I expected to be able to do is to add my searches and have the PVR run on > the Vortexbox, say every four hours, without me having the browser up at all.
You can. If you leave the browser window open, then the cgi script will do get_iplayer --pvr-run periodically, but you only need to do this if you can't (or don't want) to use cron (or some equivalent). > The README-get_iplayer.cgi.txt file says (in part): > > Setup crontab for PVR to run > ---------------------------- > * Add a line in /etc/crontab to run the pvr: > > "0 * * * * apache /usr/bin/get_iplayer --pvr 2>/dev/null" > > which I have done (after changing the path to /var/www/get_iplayer). > > Am I missing or misunderstanding something? Not really ;-) There seem to be at least two ways of doing everything in get_iplayer, and in this case you can run the pvr from cron or from the cgi script, and the cron example runs the PVR on the hour every hour. I run get_iplayer from cron, but choose to set the pvr to run once a night (just after midnight when my ISP's unmetered bandwidth period kicks in) thus: 10 0 * * * /usr/bin/get_iplayer --refresh --pvr-run > ~/.get_iplayer/pvr.log 2>&1 Cheers Jon _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
