[vdr] Re: PowerManagement in current VDR?

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

On 08 Nov 2002 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:
> Sergei Haller wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Klaus Schmidinger (KS) wrote:
>> 
>> KS> [...]  So  if  the user explicitly selects the "Standby" function, all
>> KS> cDevices  could  release  their file handles and the driver would then
>> KS> turn off LNB power.
>> 
>> Well,  on a multi card system the unused cards could stay released all the
>> time  and  a  frontend  to  be  opened  only if something's going on there
>> (recording, epg scan, transfer mode, whatever) -- just an idea
> 
> Since the EPG scan kicks in after 60 seconds of user inactivity I doubt
> that it saves an awful lot if LNB power is turned off for that short
> period of time...

Anyways this would be a nice feature, as:

-some people have disabled EPG scan

-only one card is needed to do EPG scan. Other cards could be
released. I also think that it doesn't makes much sense to do the
EPG scan that often. I the EPG scan would only be triggered every
2-3 hours, it would be enough to keep the database up to date.

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Stefan Huelswitt
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