[vdr] Re: Channel scan with one (budget) card

[Oliver Joa <ojoa@gatrixx.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Joerg Knitter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this question seems to be rather trivial, but I (and some others, see
> http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=23465) donīt find the real
> answer to this.
>
> If I have only one budget card installed (using xine), how do I make a
> channel scan including channels on transponders that I regularly donīt visit
> (e.g. to find new HD channels etc.)?
I have the same problem. I have a computer with only one budget card. It 
is used only for recording. The timers are programmed with vdradmin. But 
often I only see the channels of one transponder, because the others are 
not scanned. Then i have to switch the channel and start a scan with the 
"scan"-command on the socket. I thought about it and wanted to do it via 
cron: a small script which switches to different channels and make a 
"scan". And starting that script every 5 min. But i have no idea what 
will happen if it is recording at that time. The computer is not running 
every time, only for recording.

> I found one solution: I install the streamdev-plugin, set it to "pause
> live-tv", go to "settings/epg" and start the EPG scan with the red button.
> This seems to finds all channels.
>
> But is there another way doing this without installing streamdev?
You can initiate a scan on the socket with the command "scan". But it is 
not very fast. Sometimes it needs 5 min to get the data, I have no idea 
why.

Does anyone have better idea?

Klaus: how did you program it? When does vdr do epg-scans, and why only on 
one transponder? I think it would be best to switch to other transponders 
and scan also, but i have no idea if this can be done. Can only be done if 
there is no recording and noone watching tv :-)

olli