[vdr] Re: PowerManagement in current VDR?

["Aike J Sommer (AS Media)" <asommer@as-media.com>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> "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

well... u could allow the user to switch to some fake channel (eg "0") 
and release the dvb as long as vdr is on that channel! should be 
possible i guess...

sorry if i didnt put it clear enough in my first post!

aike

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