[vdr] remote control not responding when message is being displayed

[Steffen Barszus]

Andre.Weidemann at web.de schrieb:

> Hi,
> I have a server with an ISDN card and I set it up, so it will send a 
> message via svdrpsend.pl to my VDR Box, when there is an incoming 
> phone call. (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Svdrp-isdnanruf)
>
> I am running VDR 1.4.5 on my VDR box. The only thing that is bugging 
> me a bit, is the fact, that my VDR is not responding to any LIRC input 
> as long as the message is being displayed. So it depends on the right 
> timing to pause a running replay. Since the message is repeated every 
> 4 seconds I have to hit the pause key on the remote at the right 
> moment(when there is no message being displayed) to make the replay 
> pause.
>
> Can anyone tell me on how to change this behavior?
> Any other suggestion on how to display the phone number if the ISDN 
> card is not built into the VDR system itself would be appreciated as 
> well.

Sounds strange. But apart from that maybe osdserver-plugin might be the 
better option to display messages as it doesn't seem to rely on svdrp ? 
Haven't tried that yet, but seems  to be very interesting plugin.

Kind Regards

Steffen