Global blocklist for wishlists (standalone)

I find Kids programs are the worst offenders in being accidentally picked up by my Wishlists. Or rather I notice the kids program offenders far more than any others because there is zero chance I will be interested in them.

On the other hand I have never used the Global Blocklist so far so I will have to get to grips with that too. I had perhaps gained the impression that it was only suitable for US Tivos as there seems to be no long term thread running about the Global Blocklist in Tivo UK.

 

remove the kids channels for CIR, should block most of them.

 

True. I leave them in the EPG purely for when my sister and young niece and nephew visit.

 

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So the .tcl automatically deletes what is outlined in the blocklist from the ToDo list?

Sorry for the dumb Q, but to install this I can copy it anywhere on the tivo and call it in the rc.sysinit.author?

 

Looks like I have to pull my hard drive and edit rc.sysinit.author because blocklist.tcl hangs for me.
I ran it from telnet and it said:
Opening db
closing db
It seemed ok but didnt do anything to my ToDo list so I added it to rc.sysinit.author in hopes it would work. My tivo still starts but ftp, telnet, and TWP are down unfortunately. Maybe I had a different blocklist in my TWP than the one u have mikerrr.

 

That will be caused by either a problem in how you edited rc.sysinit.author, or failing to background the command with an &

 

It seems to be running fine but it does not delete any shows from the ToDo List.

Code:

master:/hack/scripts #
master:/hack/scripts # ./blocklist.tcl &
[2] 256
master:/hack/scripts #
master:/hack/scripts # Opening db
closing db
Opening db
closing db
Opening db
closing db
Opening db
closing db
Opening db
closing db

I have TWP installed in /hack/TivoWebPlus, not /var/hack is this the problem? Just a guess, I'm noob.
I opened up the tcl script and the only thing I found that may be wrong for me is
set blocklist [load_list "/var/hack/blocklist.txt"]
set blockpatt [load_list "/var/hack/blockpatt.txt"]

I store your blocklist.tcl in /hack/scripts/

 

your better of using Sandertons startup script editor, if you have Tivoweb, easier & safer than editing rc.sysinit.author directly

 

threadkiller, I looked up Sanderton's editor but it looks like you have fix it if your tivo wipes out /var/hack/ as it sometimes does.

Hackman has a nice easy module for editing it, but ftp and textpad works well too. But yeah, if you mess this it you have to pull the hard drive.

So back to blocklist.tcl . . . in /var/hack/ I do have the 2 files that were created and they are 0kb.

Just an idea- the blocklist.tcl should only run after a guide update is indexed, this is when tivo adds shows to the ToDo List and the block list. It seems excessive to run it every 10 minutes don't you think? It is a necessary service though, IMO.

 

I have items in my blocklist in TivoWebPlus though. TWP2.0 comes with the blocklist already built in (ui_todo.itcl), is this not what you based this program on. I figured your tcl script would pick up on that and use the data. Did I misunderstand something ?

Looks like it is storing my blocklist data somewhere else because in ui_todo.itcl there is the line that is commented out tho:

#set blocklist [gbl_savefile "/var/hack/etc/blocklist.txt" $blocklist]

I haven't found where it is storing my blocklist data, the ones in /var/hack/ or /var/hack/etc/ were 0kb, empty files.

 

Hello,

I've installed blocklist.tcl to both my tivos.

It seems to work fine on one, when I run it on the second I get;
/var/hack #blocklist.tcl
/var/hack/blocklist.tcl: proc: command not found
/var/hack/blocklist.tcl: return: bad non-numeric arg `[string'

I'm not to sure what that means.

Thanks in advance,

Alan.

 

Hi MikeErr,

That was one of the first things I checked;

/var/hack #less blocklist.tcl
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
blocklist.tcl (press RETURN)
#!/tvbin/tivosh
#
# Blocklist.tcl v1.3
#
# Removes wishlist items from the todo list based on blocklists

Reading through the tcl code I can't see any obvious calls to external commands . Are there any dependencies on other programs?

Thanks in advance (and for providing such programs)

Alan.