[vdr] Re: RFC - wakeup-timer

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Richard Cieply wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> as many of you I use nvram-wakeup with vdr which works really fine.
> But there are times when I would like to wakeup the VDR-Box at certain
> times
> (say every night at 4am for instance) and not only
> when a timer is about to start a recording - what is today's behaviour.
> 
> What do you think about a 'wakeup-timer'?
> This timer could be like any other timer (one-shot or repeating) except
> that it would
> do nothing.
> This would be a dummy to allow vdr and the shutdown-script to set other
> times
> to wakeup besides 'real' timers.
> 
> A simple implementation could be to set the programm number to '0' what is
> an
> invalid programm number, I think.
> If a timer is set to programm '0' the timer name could be set to 'wakeup'.
> If a timer with programm '0' fires nothing would be done by vdr...(except
> the usual
> timer handling stuff).
> 
> I know one could programm  a 'real' timer with very low priority and
> duration one minute
> but one would then need to deal with this dummy recordings, which is - what
> I think - ugly.
> 
> Here are some use cases for such a wakeup-timer:
> - I use master-timer to programm vdr. If I'm on a business trip
>   or holiday my box should record all "what-have-you" episodes
>   which don't come in fixed timeslots. Therefor the box needs to
>   come up frequently (once a day), update the epg-data and run
>   master-timer.
> - I'd like to sync some mail and news at night for my private
>   LAN news- and imap-server.
> - I like to watch news in the morning while taking my tea and
>   trying to wakeup. My box should be up and running when I enter
>   the living room - I know: I'm lazy.
> - ...

Why don't you put that functionality into the script that VDR calls when
requesting a shutdown? In there you can modify the reboot time requested by VDR
and have your box boot either at the time given by VDR, or at an earlier time.
I don't see the need to define dummy timers for this.

Klaus
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