Comments on: Don’t Want to Miss that Programme on iPlayer over Christmas?

By: Mark Waters

Mark Waters — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:48:51 +0000

Thanks for get_iplayer and writing up this guide.

Good Stuff!

By: BikerDon

BikerDon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:39:12 +0000

Yupp – that was it, tried again with double quotes and all was well…

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer “knowing” –type radio –pvradd=”Knowing Me, Knowing You”

INFO: Saving PVR search ‘Knowing_Me_Knowing_You':
type radio
search0 knowing
search1 (Recordings’)

By: BikerDon

BikerDon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:27:50 +0000

Aha – just found the post about using double-quotes in Windows – that may have been the issue.

By: BikerDon

BikerDon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:20:26 +0000

had one issue with setting the PVR though…

I wanted to record all ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ so I entered…

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer ‘knowing me, knowing you’ –type radio

but got…

Matches:
10696: Double Income, No Kids Yet: Series 3 – Episode 6, BBC 7, Comedy,Radio,Si
tcoms
11337: Knowing Me, Knowing You – Episode 6, BBC 7, Comedy,Radio,Spoof

no idea why the first one was selected (was it the ‘,’ ?, that’s all that’s common) so I entered…

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer knowing –type radio

that worked OK…

Matches:
11337: Knowing Me, Knowing You – Episode 6, BBC 7, Comedy,Radio,Spoof

so, as instructed above, I added –pvradd…

C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer knowing –type radio –pvradd=’Knowing
Me, Knowing You’ **

and got…

INFO: Saving PVR search ‘Knowing':
type radio
search0 knowing
search1 Me,
search2 Knowing
search3 You’
search4 (Recordings’)

looks to me like they were used the wrong way round…
‘Knowing’ was used as the search title
‘Knowing Me, Knowing you’ was used as the search parameters

** the instructions up top suggest the parameter(s) are used as a title as in…

get_iplayer ‘Doctor Who’ –type=tv –channel=’BBC One’ –pvradd=’Dr Who’

By: BikerDon

BikerDon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:03:49 +0000

Worked a treat, many thanks

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:37:52 +0000

See the documentation section about ‘Scheduling the PVR’ at: https://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation#PVR Usage

By: BikerDon

BikerDon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:47:24 +0000

I am a Windows user (sorry =o), how do I do the bit that says:

Getting the PVR to run Automatically

You must ensure that this command runs on your PC on a regular basis:
/path/to/get_iplayer –pvr

By: Lakesideloafer

Lakesideloafer — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:23:37 +0000

Is there any way to use notify-send to bring up a message that new programmes have been downloaded rather than receiving an email?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:46:29 +0000

Oops, just figured it out ~/.get_iplayer

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:42:43 +0000

Just wondering where the pvr data gets stored, I typed a path in wrong and thought there must be an easy way to correct it without deleting and readding