[vdr] Re: splitted vdr system

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:17:30 +0100, Claas Hilbrecht
<claas@jucs-kramkiste.de> wrote:

> 1) Has anyone built such a system before and is willing to share his/her 
> knowlegde?

I have a server with multiple clients, but I have the same problem with
programming as you. I solve this by using vdradmin and epg2timers.

> 2) I didn't find an option to disable recordings on a VDR instance. Is 
> there one?

You can do this by setting the primary priority limit accordingly. I set
it to 90, but most recordings are programmed at 50 and below. 

> 3) Is it possible to only share the timers.conf file? I didn't find an 
> option to specify the location of the file to VDR. But I think is this a 
> small patch only. Is VDR able to rescan a timers.conf if some external 
> programm changed its contents? I assume so but I'm not sure.

It does not help to share it because it is only rescanned at start of
vdr.

> 4) If 2) + 3) are not possible I tought about patching the VDR on machine L 
> to not use the timers.conf directly but instead use the SVDRP to 
> query/create timers via the network directly on machine S.

That is the way to go. Ideal would be to have a plugin interface for the
standard menus like schedule, timers and recording. Then this
functionality can be easily replaced by a plugin which uses svdrp to
communicate with one or multiple servers.

BTW, as far as I know it is not possible to use VDR with only two budget
cards. You have to have at least one full featured card or a DRX3 card
in a machine.

Emil


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