[vdr] Re: AutoPID scanner plugin and watchdog

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

Michael Reinelt wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I thinks there may be a problem with the scanner plugin from the AutoPID
> patch, and the watchdog:
> 
> If I start a scan here, which takes a few minutes (I've got about 600
> channels in my channels.conf, all I could get from Astra 19.2E), VDR
> restarts because of the watchdog timer, which I set to 60 seconds.
> 
> Looks like the scanner should do somethink like emitting a "keepalive
> message"?
> 
> Any hints?

I don't know the internals of the scanner, but (like any plugin)
it shouldn't block the main loop of VDR. If it has to do something
that takes longer, it should do so in a separate thread.

Klaus
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