[vdr] Re: epg2timer

[Manfred Schmidt-Voigt <manfred.schmidt-voigt@mannitec.de>]

At Wednesday, 09 January 2002, you wrote:

>Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote:
>> ...
>> I had to set the timeout value in the script to an large value 
(>5min)
>> because the programming of the timer via SVDR is very slow. Each
>> line is updated on a ~30sec base and if you have 10 line to update
>> it lasts a while. Is this something which can be solved by configuration
>> or is there a bug in the SVDR connection? The deletion command for
>> the old timer list is fast but the update of this list is very slow.
>> Why?
> ...
>I am using the update_timers.old script to update my timers automatically.

>That script is assumed to be run by the runvdr script BETWEEN starts of
>vdr. In order to restart vdr often enough, I (mis)use vdr's -s (shutdown)
>option to restart vdr every two hours when it is not in use.
>
>Of course this does not answer the original question, but it may 
provide
>an alternative if the slow SVDRP annoys you.
>Regarding the original question, you may want to ask Peter Ahlert, who
>wrote the loadvdr script.
> ...
>
>Carsten.
>

I have tried this script too but than I have to add the tolerance 
times for the beginning and the end of a timer entry manually because 
the broadcast is never that exact as it is written in TVTV. 

But thank you anyway for your script
Manfred



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