Is there a limit to the number of channels you can exclude or include

I want to speed up refresh times but none of teh channels I use in teh exclude option get excuded from the TV.cache ,radio.cache or podcast.cache

the string is pretty large and I wondered if that may be the reason why, or have I got the format wrong

here is my exclude and include stings.
I use either

or



I think I have got the format right but it just downloads everything.

I like the look of the site and hope it catches on, except with the big bad corporation

There should be no space before the = sign in either command.

You should use and as part of the same command since the cache is rewritten every time you run with . However, you may not need to do that in your case. It looks like you only want a small subset of channels , so you should be able to just use with some adjustments to your search terms.

Each search term is applied as a regular expression match, which in the usual case can be considered a substring match. Thus, "BBC One" will match everything containing "BBC One", so all regional variants will be included, not just the ones specified elsewhere in your list. You can stop that by appending a dollar sign to that particular search term, i.e., "BBC One" becomes "BBC One$". That will prevent that search from matching a channel name containing anything after "BBC One". Your specific variants (e.g., BBC One Channel Islands) will still be matched as well.

Channel inclusion/exclusion isn't implemented in the podcast plugin, nor is (which doesn't have any meaning for podcasts).

One forum tip: wrap any example commands with the "code" button in the editor. It makes it possible to copy and paste your commands verbatim for testing.

882 Wrote:You should use

Code:

--refresh-exclude

and

Code:

--refresh-include

as part of the same command since the cache is rewritten every time you run with

Code:

--refresh

. However, you may not need to do that in your case. It looks like you only want a small subset of channels , so you should be able to just use

Code:

--refresh-include

with some adjustments to your search terms.

Each search term is applied as a regular expression match, which in the usual case can be considered a substring match. Thus, “BBC One” will match everything containing “BBC One”, so all regional variants will be included, not just the ones specified elsewhere in your list. You can stop that by appending a dollar sign to that particular search term, i.e., “BBC One” becomes “BBC One$”. That will prevent that search from matching a channel name containing anything after “BBC One”. Your specific variants (e.g., BBC One Channel Islands) will still be matched as well.

Channel inclusion/exclusion isn’t implemented in the podcast plugin, nor is

Code:

--refresh-future

(which doesn’t have any meaning for podcasts).

One forum tip: wrap any example commands with the “code” button in the editor. It makes it possible to copy and paste your commands verbatim for testing.

thanks for the advice and all is working well now
Is there a reason why it does not work with podcasts as the podcast file seems to be the largest of all

No reason. Whoever wrote the podcast support just didn't implement inclusion/exclusion. It was written before the BBC greatly expanded the amount of available podcasts (from archives, etc.) a couple of years ago. I'll put it on the list, but it will be a good while before it sees the light of day.