[vdr] Re: EPG scan does not start

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

Andreas Hölscher wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> > Juri Haberland wrote:
> >>> AFIK an EPG-scan will only be made with a card, that is "idle". So if
> >>> you want an EPG-scan, you will have to put in another DVB-card or
> >>> switch to every channel for a few seconds=scanning manually.
> >>
> >>
> >> According to VDR's manual that is wrong:
> >>
> >> EPG scan timeout = 5
> >>      The time (in hours) of user inactivity after which the
> >>      DVB card in a single card system starts scanning channels
> >>      to keep the EPG up-to-date.
> >>      A value of '0' completely turns off scanning on both single
> >>      and multiple card systems.
> > Yes...I must be wrong. But I never had VDR running for longer than 2
> > hours without a key-press...I just can't resist pressing all those nice
> > buttons...
> My vdr runs 24h a day. I did not try the epg scan for a long time, but I'm
> sure that the epg scan worked for me with this card (I never had another
> one), but I can't find the version (vdr or dvb) that worked for me.
> 
> Any hint where to look to solve this problem?

This must have to do with theother thread you posted.
As long as VDR is in Transfer Mode, it won't start an EPG scan
on that card.

Klaus


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