[vdr] Re: For VDR-1.2.0: VDR should disable broken cards

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Some month ago a low-budget in a system I'm maintaining was broken.
> 
> As the tuner-frontend was broken, but not the PCI-bridge, I didn't find
> the fault with three additional cards in the system.
> 
> After two month of searching broken cables and driver/software-bugs I
> pulled all four cards out of the machine and checked them one by one in
> a Windoze-machine with origin TT-driver and found the broken card that
> way.
> 
> But in that 2 month VDR was restarting all the day making any use of VDR
> impossible. This could also happen with e.g. a broken antenna-cable on
> one card breaking all recording on the others.
> 
> So VDR shouldn't restart in case of a unavailable card but simply
> disable it and write a notice into the log (and maybe display "Card N
> unavailable" on OSD every 15 minutes).

I guess if I change that I'll start getting complaints about missed
recordings, saying "why didn't VDR reload the driver?".

You can easily change that behaviour by modifying the code in receiver.c,
cRecorder::Action() (assuming you use version 1.1.33). Just comment out
the 'else f (...)' part.

I'll make this a config switch after 1.2.0.

Klaus
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