[vdr] Re: vdradmin blocks remotecontrol?

[Torsten Kunkel <vdrml@tkunkel.de>]

_cooper_ <cooper@linvdr.org> wrote:
hi cooper,

> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Torsten Kunkel wrote:
>> I feel I already read something about this but I cannot find where it
>> was. My vdradmin often blocks my remotecontrol :(
>> Sometimes an hour, I press keys, but nothing happens. Then after some
>> seconds my vdr runs through the buttons I pressed. Observing this
>> error I noticed this only happening when vdradmin refreshes his lists.
> This is well known and happens if your epg.data extends about 1 MB. Then you
> just have a lot too much channels, I would say ;-) With about 100 channels
> (all german, some english) my EPG is normally around 500 KB.

Oh, I took a look on my epg.data, it's aboiut 8.7MB, seems the tools
like hoerzu2vdr to feed the epg with internetpageressources have some
bad sideeffect :/
 
>> a) how to make the time-distance of vdradmins longer?
> Just increase "CACHE_TIMEOUT", default is 10 minutes, in your vdradmind.conf.
> By that way, ensure that AT_TIMEOUT is the same or a higher value, everything
> else is senseless.

Thank you, I'll try this.
 
>> i don't know why it should update more than a few times a day, not
>> sometimes an hour!
> Because
>  - when you start VDR, it will take some minutes till VDR gathers some EPG.
>    If you set the CACHE_TIMEOUT e.g. to 6 hours, vdradmin will get its data
>    first after 6 hours
>  - as well as the autotimer. I would probably loose some recordings.
>  - some channels (RTL, Vox) have sometimes a nearly empty EPG, only two or
>    three events in future. With a six-hour-update, I think you'll miss a lot.

Oh I use a tool called hoerzu2vdr, using this tool I have egp for the
next 7 days, even on these channels. So vdradmin couldn't miss any
recording.
 
>> b) how can i bring vdradmin to not block my remote?
> The problem is VDR itself. VDR can currently handle only one SVDRP connection
> and will not read remote controll events during this time.
> So in the time vdradmin gathers the EPG info (some few seconds), the remote
> controll will get stuck for the time. There's a patch to read the epg.data
> from harddisk, but it has its own limitations.

@Klaus: might this be a low priorisied point for your todo-list?

	Torsten


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