[vdr] AW: Re: AW: Perhaps you lost my message...

["Bläser, Lars" <LBlaeser@hofheim.de>]

> Moreover in a couple of days I will receive an infrared keyboard to
> attach to my VDR so I would like to do everything without a monitor.

why not using LIRC, its cheap and easy to build, gives you a better hadling then a ir-keybord
(if you have a ergonomic remote) and has usualy a better range

> I switch my VDR on, vdr is loaded as a daemon and I can control it
> sitting on my bed :)
> Any other better idea to control it (even starting it) using 
> a keyboard
> local or remote WITHOUT attaching any monitor?

my vdr is right beside my tv/amplifier to have short connections for A/V
-network connection
-LIRC ir-sensor
-ir keybord with mouse and a extended cabele for VGA m/f (its much easyer if you wont have to search behind the case for the right connector - but all not used for long time;-))
- mechanical switch for A/V to a radio-A/V transmitter with ir backchannel so if i decide to watch tv in the bedroom i use the mechanical switch and now i have A/V in the bedroom and with the ir-backchannel i can control vdr with my remote

every day control with ir-remote, if i´m workin on one of the other computers i can use the web-interface of vdradmin to see the epg, switch to a chanel, manage timers, ... (its multiplatform and needs no special preparations on client side)

its also possible to have that access from the internet if you want that (ie. flatrate with dyndns, http portforwarding to your linux, with or without vpn)
you still have the option to use telnet or VNC to get things fixed up on the linux-system itself