[vdr] Re: Can vdr work without antenna? (play recordings)

[Walter Schittek <waltersch@gmx.net>]

Simple solution if (all) your DVB card(s) have no antenna signal:

- Save your channels.conf and make it empty (0 bytes).
- Save your timers.conf and make it empty (0 bytes).
- Be sure that your vdr command line(s) (normal start, automatic restart 
when dead) don't contain the -s option, otherwise vdr would shutdown 
your PC after some time because he has no active timers.
- Restart vdr.

When you get the antenna signal back, restore the channels.conf and 
timers.conf, restart vdr and clean up the timers.

I have a rev 2.1 DVB-s card, and this works very well for me. Without 
antenna signal, VDR presents a black TV screen, but plays recordings and 
DVDs.

I came to this solution when I noticed that (in /var/log/messages) vdr 
did not complain about an empty channels.conf, but then complained about 
an undefined channel in timers.conf.

(Not only) at this point, vdr seems to be coded very logically. If there 
is no channel to tune and no timer to watch, it leaves the DVB card 
alone (with tuning) and still runs with all the other capabilities it 
has. Well done!

Walter



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