[linux-dvb] Re: daemon for dedicated dvb-card.

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Timo Eckert wrote:

> and nothing happens.. i think.. damn.. i forgot something. read the INSTALL 
> again and again.. so i saw that vdr is logging into syslog. okay. tailed 
> syslog.. seems to be good.. but the last line:
> Aug 20 20:45:29 fileserver vdr[22974]: remote control KBD - learning keys
> 
> WTF?!?! keys? what for keys. my fileserver is a little box with 6hdds, one 
> dvd-writer, one cdwriter, one nic and one dvb-s card. there is no keyboard 
> nor irda-device on it... so, well, i thougt i hack randomly on my keyboard.. 
> i got nice 'new KDB code'-msgs in the syslog.. and now? hrm? restart? okay. 
> restart.. hrm.. learning keys again? damnmit.. searched the Website of vdr 
> for a documentation.. nothing.. read the MANUAL.. nothing.. so i removed this 
> thing and try my luck with mythtv now (hope thats work better)...
> 
> this are my personal experience with vdr.

Oh well, I wonder how you got Linux running, if you don't read the
documentation and the online-resources (sorry, couldn't resist).

VDR is originally designed to work with a remote control - but you don't
need one. After the first start it insists on learning at least one way
to control it - the keyboard. If you don't have a full-featured card,
you should compile it with 'OSD_DEBUG=1' to see the on-screen-display
messages on the console. Then start it, teach it the basic commands
(even though you'll never need them; it's just a matter of a minute or
so) and after that you can control it via telnet to port 2001.

Cheers,
Juri



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