[vdr] Re: Feature Request: EPG scan timer

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> First of all, thanks for this great piece of software. Let me try to
> explain what I would like to have:
> 
> My vdr (single card system, not running 24/7) is located at my parents
> home and I currently use it only for recording (not regularly, therefore
> I don't want to have it running all the time, shutting it on/off is done
> by nvram-wakeup, nobody uses it for watching TV). If I want to record
> something, I create a timer using vdradmin over the Web (powering on vdr
> for that is easy: make a telephone call to the parents and tell them to
> switch it on... :) ). Since vdr is powered off most of the time, I have
> almost never an up-to-date EPG, which is quite annoying for programming
> movies.
> 
> A nice feature would be, if an EPG scan could be scheduled like a
> conventional timer. E.g., every day at midnight (or some other
> pattern/time). If not running, it would then power on like for a regular
> timer, make an epg scan and switch off again. If something is recording
> at this time, it could be simply omitted (or delayed, etc).
> 
> Maybe anybody has already implemented such a feature... i would
> appreciate some ideas...

Just make your shutdown script so that it takes either the time of the next
event, or "midnight" as the time to reboot. Onve VDR is up, send it the SVDRP
command SCAN to initiate an EPG scan.

Klaus