[vdr] Re: selfswitching...

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

Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> 
> Please have a look at this log. 1.3.4 with elchi patch on 2.6.3
> 
> Channel 65 stays silent after starting the record,
> channels 64 and 66 on the same frequency work.
> 
> Of course I did not choose 65 hundreds of times, vdr did.
> 
> Feb 27 10:29:31 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 65
> Feb 27 10:29:49 mm vdr[28268]: timer 5 (65 1029-1329 '@TITLE EPISODE') start
> Feb 27 10:29:53 mm vdr[28268]: record /video/@Swiss_Pop__/2004-02-27.10:29.50.99.rec
> Feb 27 10:30:15 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 2
> Feb 27 10:30:24 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 65
> Feb 27 10:30:25 mm last message repeated 30 times
> Feb 27 10:30:25 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 5
> Feb 27 10:30:30 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 65
> Feb 27 10:30:32 mm last message repeated 25 times
> Feb 27 10:30:32 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 5
> Feb 27 10:30:32 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 65
> Feb 27 10:30:46 mm last message repeated 185 times
> Feb 27 10:30:46 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 66
> Feb 27 10:30:47 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 65
> Feb 27 10:30:55 mm last message repeated 189 times
> Feb 27 10:30:56 mm vdr[28268]: confirm: Aufzeichnung l<F6>schen?
> Feb 27 10:30:57 mm vdr[28268]: confirmed
> Feb 27 10:30:57 mm vdr[28268]: confirm: Timer zeichnet auf - trotzdem l<F6>schen?
> Feb 27 10:30:57 mm vdr[28268]: confirmed
> Feb 27 10:30:57 mm vdr[28268]: timer 5 (65 1029-1329 '@Swiss Pop  ') stop
> Feb 27 10:30:57 mm vdr[28268]: timer 5 deleted
> Feb 27 10:30:57 mm vdr[28268]: deleting recording /video/@Swiss_Pop__/2004-02-27.10:29.50.99.rec
> Feb 27 10:30:57 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 65
> Feb 27 10:31:04 mm last message repeated 6 times
> Feb 27 10:31:04 mm vdr[28268]: confirm: Aufzeichnung beenden?
> Feb 27 10:31:06 mm vdr[28268]: confirmed
> Feb 27 10:31:06 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 65
> Feb 27 10:31:11 mm last message repeated 75 times
> Feb 27 10:31:11 mm vdr[28268]: switching to channel 64

This will be fixed in version 1.3.5.

Here's a patch:

--- vdr.c       2004/02/08 11:23:29     1.175
+++ vdr.c       2004/02/13 13:13:13     1.176
@@ -496,11 +496,15 @@
         if (!EITScanner.Active() && cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->HasDecoder() && !cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->HasProgramme()) {
            static time_t lastTime = 0;
            if (time(NULL) - lastTime > MINCHANNELWAIT) {
-              if (!Channels.SwitchTo(cDevice::CurrentChannel()) // try to switch to the original channel...
-                  && !(LastTimerChannel > 0 && Channels.SwitchTo(LastTimerChannel)) // ...or the one used by the last timer...
-                  && !cDevice::SwitchChannel(1) // ...or the next higher available one...
-                  && !cDevice::SwitchChannel(-1)) // ...or the next lower available one
-                 lastTime = time(NULL); // don't do this too often
+              cChannel *Channel = Channels.GetByNumber(cDevice::CurrentChannel());
+              if (Channel && (Channel->Vpid() || Channel->Apid1())) {
+                 if (!Channels.SwitchTo(cDevice::CurrentChannel()) // try to switch to the original channel...
+                     && !(LastTimerChannel > 0 && Channels.SwitchTo(LastTimerChannel)) // ...or the one used by the last timer...
+                     && !cDevice::SwitchChannel(1) // ...or the next higher available one...
+                     && !cDevice::SwitchChannel(-1)) // ...or the next lower available one
+                    ; 
+                 }   
+              lastTime = time(NULL); // don't do this too often
               LastTimerChannel = -1;
               }
            }


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