Epgsync-plugin

Description

Imports the EPG of an other VDR using the Svdrp protocol. For connecting the svdrpservice-plugin is used which has to be installed along with epgsync.

The actual import runs as a background thread. You can start the thread from the main menu or automatically whenever the plugin is started.

Software requirements

svdrpservice-plugin >= 0.0.2

Installation

See plugin installation

Problems

Thread priority

On some systems even the slow channel-by-channel import seems to affect the live picture. Try the following patch to reduce the thread priority:

--- thread.c.orig       2006-09-20 12:52:36.000000000 +0200
+++ thread.c    2006-09-20 12:53:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #define EPGSYNC_SLEEPMS 30

 void cEpgSyncThread::Action() {
+        SetPriority(15);
+
        plugin = cPluginManager::GetPlugin("svdrpservice");
        if (!plugin) {
                esyslog("EpgSync: Plugin svdrpservice not available");

Buffer size

Large EPG entries might exceed the internal buffer size. The log will show something like

svdrpservice: line too long in reply from ...

Increase the buffer size to e.g. 32k by editing svdrpservice-plugin's connection.h:

#define BUFFER_SIZE KILOBYTE(32)

Links

[1]

http://vdr.schmirler.de/

Plugin homepage