[vdr] Re: Idea for long range RCU

[Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

Christian Berger wrote:
> Well I've gotten a nice little stupid idea.
> You probably know the problem, you are somewhere in the world, but want to 
> switch a channel.
> Well my idea would be a remote which sends out UDP-Packets containing the 
> key. This should be doable in hardware and probably is easy to do in 
> Software.
> I'd choose UDP because you don't have to listen to any packets there. That 
> way you could have a simple one-way communication (IR).
> On the computer running VDR you would then change the UDP-Packets into 
> SVDPR.
> What do you think :)
Sounds interesting.... You only need some daemon listening for UDP 
datagrams and put them to svdrp commands.

@Klaus: Will there be a remote plugin in the future?