[vdr] Re: PowerManagement in current VDR?

[DOm <angelus.dei@tiscalinet.it>]

On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:16:17 +0100
Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:

> "Aike J Sommer (AS Media)" wrote:
> > 
> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > > Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Friday 08 November 2002 15:36, you wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>Hi,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>as VDR-1.1.15 completely changed to Newstruct, does it support
> > >>>>PowerManagement?
> > >>>
> > >>>VDR doesn't actively do anything in that direction.
> > >>>What exactly are you referring to?
> > >>>
> > >>>Klaus
> > >>
> > >>I think he is reffering to the dvb-driver. As announced yesterday,
> > >the>dvb-driver supports Powermanagment if I get it right. Would
> > >help to save a>lot of heat on 1.3 Cards I think.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok, but what should VDR do about this?
> > > If VDR runs, it is tuned to some channel and the LNB power must be
> > > on. If it doesn't run, the LNB power is turned off by the driver,
> > > anyway.
> > >
> > > Klaus
> > 
> > i think it would be good if vdr would completely release the dvb
> > while not doin any watching or recording, so that if i want it to
> > record something in a couple hours i can just leave it on w/o it
> > consuming all the power...
> > btw i also have an analogue receiver "behind" the dvb, which only
> > works when the dvb does not use the lnb (of course, just another
> > reason why i would like vdr to release the card)
> 
> So what you actually want is that VDR "knows" whether there is
> somebody sitting in front of the tv and watches - I wonder how that
> should be done...
> 


Maybe with a webcam + "image recognition plugin"

Just a joke, sorry ;)
Angelus.


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