[vdr] Re: Switching off

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

Ralf Klueber wrote:
> 
> > I  don't think there is actually a menu option. but you can
> > define a power button  on  your remote control. If you don't
> > have enough buttons, you can put a command sending "HITK
> > Power" to VDR in the commands menu.
> 
> As far as I know thats not as easy possible. As I remember VDR "hangs"
> when using svdrpsend directly within the commands.conf.
> 
> @Klaus is this still true for the 1.2.5pre1?
> 
> But within Linux there is always a way to go ;-). The following line
> within commands.conf will do the trick.
> 
> Switch off: echo -e "/path/to/svdrpsend.pl HITK Power" | at -now

That's pretty much the way to go. While executing a command the SVDRP
port is not served, so you need to allow the command to return before
accessing SVDRP.

Klaus


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