[vdr] Re: Programm VDR over Web

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Guido Fiala wrote:
....
> He want's to click around in some program guide (may it be tvtv) at his
> office PC or some public-access web terminal from anywhere in the world
> and then press a button at that webpage, a user@host & password box appears,
> you enter the necessary information to log into your vdr-box at home (which
> is online via flatrate), and your VDR gets programmed.

I wonder if anybody has even tried epg2timers as it is. ;-)

All those "great" ideas are in fact inferior to what we
already have. Sorry for being ironic, but it's the truth.

With epg2timers as it is right now, you can click around
in the http://tvtv.de EPG at any PC or some public-access 
web terminal anywhere in the world, select films for
recording and your VDR at home will record it.

Maybe it is too good for people to believe it, but it
does work fine. See the README file.

Polling the EPG via a crontab entry is only one way of
doing it. I have a local version here that polls the
EPG when VDR shuts down for any reason. To make it shut 
down often enough, I use the -s option with a script that 
simply kills VDR. To limit the number of polls to one
every 8 hours, I use the modification time of a log file.

Here is my current local runvdr script that does all this
and does not require a crontab entry:



#!/bin/sh

DRIVERDIR=/home/cko/DVB/driver
VDRDIR=/home/cko/VDR
VDRUSER=cko
TOOLDIR=/home/cko/bin
VDRCMD="./vdr -c . -a $TOOLDIR/play_ac3 -w 15 -s $TOOLDIR/killvdr"
LOG=/var/log/update_timers_log
INTERVAL=480

/usr/local/sbin/lircd

while (true) do
   if fuser /dev/ost/* > /dev/null ; then
      kill `fuser /dev/ost/* | cut -d: -f2- | sed 's@^ *@@g' | sort -u`
      sleep 2
      if fuser /dev/ost/* > /dev/null ; then
         kill -KILL `fuser /dev/ost/* | cut -d: -f2- | sed 's@^ *@@g' | sort -u`
      fi
   fi
   
   cd $DRIVERDIR
   make rmmod
   make insmod
   
   /usr/local/bin/rdate waldi

   if [ "`find $LOG -mmin -$INTERVAL`" != $LOG ] ; then
      date >> $LOG
      $TOOLDIR/update_timers.old >> $LOG
      echo >> $LOG
   fi

   cd $VDRDIR
   su -c "$VDRCMD" $VDRUSER
done