[vdr] Re: Feature request - dynamical deavtivation of timers

[Martin Neuditschko <yosuke.tomoe@gmx.net>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:05:39 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Martin Neuditschko wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I come home at different times and so one of the serials which
> > I want to look depends on this time. So sometimes I could look
> > it and sometimes I have to record it, so I programmed the timer
> > for this serial.
> > But if I am at home early enough I don't want to record it and
> > also during advertisings I want to zap through channels, so I
> > have to deactivate the timer completely.
> > And if I deactivated the timer sometimes I forget to reactivate
> > it which is a real problem.
> > 
> > So isn' t it possible that if a timer is running and if someone
> > wants to change the channel not only to display 'channel locked
> > for recoding' but also to ask something like 'do you want to stop
> > recording / deactivate the timer?'
> > The timer shouldn't be deactivated for ever but only for this one
> > recording.
> > 
> > Is this realizeable?
> > (I think some people could need this feature.)
> 
> This is already implemented. Press the blue key in the Timers menu
> on the recording timer. See MANUAL for more details.

Oh, yes - the 'first day' feature of the timers. I hadn't thought
that this could be used for this problem, thank you (and sorry
for my ignorance)!

best regards
Martin Neuditschko