[vdr] Re: PowerManagement in current VDR?

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

"Aike J Sommer (AS Media)" wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Steffen Barszus wrote:
> >
> >>On Friday 08 November 2002 15:36, you wrote:
> >>
> >>>Rene Bartsch wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>as VDR-1.1.15 completely changed to Newstruct, does it support
> >>>>PowerManagement?
> >>>
> >>>VDR doesn't actively do anything in that direction.
> >>>What exactly are you referring to?
> >>>
> >>>Klaus
> >>
> >>I think he is reffering to the dvb-driver. As announced yesterday, the
> >>dvb-driver supports Powermanagment if I get it right. Would help to save a
> >>lot of heat on 1.3 Cards I think.
> >
> >
> > Ok, but what should VDR do about this?
> > If VDR runs, it is tuned to some channel and the LNB power must be on.
> > If it doesn't run, the LNB power is turned off by the driver, anyway.
> >
> > Klaus
> 
> i think it would be good if vdr would completely release the dvb while
> not doin any watching or recording, so that if i want it to record
> something in a couple hours i can just leave it on w/o it consuming all
> the power...
> btw i also have an analogue receiver "behind" the dvb, which only works
> when the dvb does not use the lnb (of course, just another reason why i
> would like vdr to release the card)

So what you actually want is that VDR "knows" whether there is somebody sitting
in front of the tv and watches - I wonder how that should be done...

Klaus
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