Forcing a list to refresh

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Is there a method that will force a list being viewed to force a refresh? For instance I have a list of video feeds but they change every 15 minutes or so, I would like for the list to auto-update either A) when someone is just sitting on the list for 15 minutes or B) when someone finishes watching a video and 15 minutes has passed to refresh the list so they don’t have to exit to the “main menu” and re-enter the list again.

I played with the cache timeout but it doesn’t seem to have any impact on my Plex client (at least on Roku and AppleTV).

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You can’t set something to automatically refresh. The client has to request it.

I think the best you can do is set no_cache=True on the object container, though not all clients may support it (iOS being one).

so if you have a list A with no_cache=True that takes you to another list or a video, going back to A the client should get a new list.

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I tried that briefly before with no results and I didn’t focus more on it because the docs indicate it’s more to do with menus, but I just tried it again and no love on Roku or IOS :(. Thank you for answering though.