This is not an option for me. My parents will use such a VDR client and anything beyond simple OSD action is too complicated in this case.1) Has anyone built such a system before and is willing to share his/her knowlegde?I have a server with multiple clients, but I have the same problem with programming as you. I solve this by using vdradmin and epg2timers.
I looked at the source and noticed this also. Maybe it is possible to add the rescan function in some central VDR function.It does not help to share it because it is only rescanned at start of vdr.
Is it possible for a plugin to "override" a main menu from VDR? I think I will take a look the Plugin API.That is the way to go. Ideal would be to have a plugin interface for the standard menus like schedule, timers and recording. Then this functionality can be easily replaced by a plugin which uses svdrp to communicate with one or multiple servers.
The server machine will only be used to do the recording which sould be possible without a full featured card.BTW, as far as I know it is not possible to use VDR with only two budget cards. You have to have at least one full featured card or a DRX3 card in a machine.