[vdr] Re: howto "share" timers.conf ?

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:04:05PM +0200, Thomas Glomann wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 14:03, you wrote:
> > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> > > Short answer: by restarting the server's VDR.
> > >
> > > Long answer: at it's current state VDR is not designed to be networked,
> > > so this is not really possible to achieve. Even if you restart the
> > > server's VDR, it will read the new timers.conf, but still _both_
> > > instances of VDR will record timers that have a priority above the
> > > highest "primary limit".
> >
> > You could write a script, which reads the timers from your VDR-boxes by
> > SVDRP, checks how to distribute them on the ressources of your machines
> > and delete/set the necessarry timers by SVDRP.
> >
> > Rene
> 
> Yeah, I also thought of that. so it is getting time to take use of my very 
> little perl knowledge, but I think I can handle this.
> 
> But I hope Klaus will incoporate such a feature in some future versions of 
> VDR!

Master-Timer is able to handle many VDRs. Personally i use 2 VDR
machines.

You can configure (per "torecord"-entry) on what machine(s) the timer
will be programmed.

http://www.fall-tot-um.org/homes/scin18/mt/master-timer-0.5.12.tar.gz




Bis denn

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