[vdr] Problem with VPS

[Klaus Schmidinger]

Andreas Mueller wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> Strange...
>> It worked just fine here:
>>
>> ...
>> How many DVB devices do you have?
>> Is this DVB-S, -C or -T?
> 
> 2 devices, both are DVB-T budget cards.
> 
> I looked through the logs again and noticed that the switching between 
> two events also took place right after the show on Wednesday (which was 
> recorded correctly):
> 
> May 17 22:50:45 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') start
> May 17 23:25:06 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') stop
> May 17 23:25:19 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 01:31:24 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 17.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 17.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 02:10:09 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 02:31:32 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 17.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 17.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 03:00:36 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 03:31:27 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 17.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 17.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 03:43:56 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 04:31:34 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 17.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 17.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 04:55:40 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 05:31:26 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 17.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 17.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 18 07:29:24 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> 
> The same thing happened this morning:
> 
> May 19 02:05:17 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:55-23:25 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 19 03:12:34 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 24.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 24.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 19 04:05:06 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:55-23:25 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 19 04:15:32 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 24.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 24.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 19 05:05:58 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:55-23:25 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 19 05:31:06 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 24.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 24.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 19 06:04:45 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Don 18.05.2006 22:55-23:25 (VPS: 18.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> May 19 07:28:43 vdr vdr: [10741] timer 3 (1 2245-2315 VPS 'Harald 
> Schmidt') set to event Mit 24.05.2006 22:45-23:15 (VPS: 24.05 22:45) 
> 'Harald Schmidt'
> 
> I realized that I made the setting "EPGLinger = 60" some months ago, 
> could this be related?

I don't think so.

> Nevertheless, I think this a bug/problem which can't be reproduced 
> easily, unless one has a DVB test transmitter...

You could add some debug output to eit.c to see whether the "Harald Schmidt"
events being modified over and over again.

It might also be a good starting to log the decisions made in
cTimer::SetEventFromSchedule() for timer number 3 (note: number = Index() + 1).

Klaus