Hi Tony

I'm assuming you have a complete cache for the past month, in which case I can tell you that Arena has not been broadcast in that time. Hence the PVR will not pick up any old programmes broadcast before that period, nor will:
get_iplayer --get "Arena"

The only way is to go to the programme page at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006pn88 - there you need to determine the PID for each programme individually. As we speak I am successfully downloading the first programme on that page "Into the limelight - Tribute bands". I was lazy and didn't bother to separate out the PID from the URL, so my command was get_iplayer --pid https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0081h5z/arena-into-the-limelight-tribute-bands The way I got the URL for that programme was by right clicking on the title of the show "Into the limelight - Tribute bands" and then clicking on "copy link location" (in the case of the Firefox browser).

You will find that every other programme on that page can be downloaded this way.  No doubt there will be a way to scrape the programme page for PIDs, but I'm not a programmer, so I haven't a clue how to do that - I just do things manually as the need arises.

Incidentally, --type TV is superfluous for TV programmes.

Best wishes

Alan


On 29/10/2017 12:02, Tony Quinn wrote:
I ran PVR before nipping out (to D/L whilst I'm out) and am getting the following error message

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Running PVR Searches:

INFO: PVR Run: '_Arena_name_tv_radio'

ERROR: Programme type '' does not exist

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At which point PVR crashes


I get the same error attempting to D/L by selecting Record direct from the PVR, and also from the CLI (despite specifying the type)

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c:\Program Files (x86)\get_iplayer>get_iplayer --type=tv --pid=<PID>
get_iplayer 3.06.0, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.


ERROR: Programme type '' does not exist

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YES I know that Arena's an old show, but there are some occasional repeats that are worth watching


Running Win 10-64   and    get_iplayer Web PVR Manager 3.06.0


Everything was working yesterday morning, so I'm suspecting a corruption in a file somewhere - has anybody encountered something similar?


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