[vdr] Re: Small client for SVDRP

[Dieter Poesl <Dieter@Poesl-Online.de>]

Hi Lauri,

> > At the moment i execute via the acpid a poweroff comand if a user presses
> > the power button in the computer case. But this would interrupt vdr, even if
> > it is recording at the moment. Instead i want to send vdr a "hitk power", so
> > that vdr initiate the shutdown (or not).
> >
> > But i haven't perl on the small bootdisk/image, so i can't use the perl
> > script that comes with vdr. Is there a small standalone solution available
> > (a small c program), that can send some commands to vdr? Perhaps defined by
> > a small config file ...
> >
> >    
> If you have devfs enabled, you can say:
>
> echo "hitk power" > /dev/tcp/localhost/2001
>
> The only problem is that VDR takes a while to wake up after the connection 
> has been established before it accepts SVDRP commands. Thus the above line 
> will not work. You would have to sleep for a couple of seconds before 
> sending the command. I haven't figured out haw to do this yet.
>
> Another solution might be to use NetCat (the binary is called nc). I don't 
> know how big the nc binary is (can't check right now). But again the same 
> sleeping problem is present.
>
> I'm sure there is a really simple solution for the waiting problem, it 
> just hasn't occurred to me so far...
>
>  
Thx for the great tip. I've tested it with nc (netcat) It work's without 
any problems.
It's a nice solution for control vdr from other scripts.
Btw: nc is about 470kB big.

Have a nice day
 Dieter

>  
> > All help welcome...
> > Oliver
> >    
>  



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