[vdr] Re: Two tv's connected to one vdr-mashine

[Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>]

Hi

Do you think this is the best way ?

If you start 2 VDR instances with the 2 Full Featured DVB-S cards
each card bind itselve to one VDR- instance.

So each VDR only is able to use 1 CARD and also Recording and Watching
a other Movie the same time can be a problem.

I think the best way is this Solution:

1 DVB-S Full Featured CARD
1 DVB-S NOVA
1 DXR3 CARD

So 2 Different People have access to 2 independend VDRīs and they
can use both CARDīs at same Time.

But the Best thing is that such a System can be updatet with a secodn
DVB-S NOVA CARD and in this configuration itīs realy powerfull !

Best Regards

Axel

> Hi!

> this is exactly what I am planning, too. I want to run two DVB-cards in
> the same PC and watch
> different channels on either of the cards. I have found out that some
> people already have realized
> this. Obviously, it is only necessary to load the DVB driver once and
> after that start two instances
> of vdr with VDR1 and VDR2 using different video- and config-directories. A
> person working at the
> heise magazine has written a runvdr-script for three vdr-instances; I have
> modified this a bit in
> order to work with only 2 instances, but I don't if it will work yet.
> Could anyone of you look over it
> and tell me if this will work that way? I also don't understand what the
> "Endlos-Schleife" does
> exactly, as I am not a script-guru...here is the code, thank you in
> advance:


> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # copyright Juergen Schmidt, c't magazin
> #
> # Licence: GPL
> #
> # call  ./runvdr [vdr-dir] [port1] [port2]
> #


> # VARIABLEN
> TVDIR=/usr/local/src

> VDRDIR=${1:-$TVDIR/VDR}
> PORT1=${2:-2001}
> PORT2=${3:-2002}

> VDRPRG="$VDRDIR/vdr"
> DVBDIR="/usr/local/src/DVB/driver"



> ## BEFEHLE ZUM STARTEN DER JEWEILIGEN VDR-INSTANZEN

> # VDR-Instanz 1

> VDR1CMD="$VDRPRG -d -w 60 -p $PORT1 -D 0 -v /video1 -c /usr/local/vdr/etc1
> -E /video1/
> epg.data -t /dev/tty8"

> # VDR-Instanz 2

> VDR2CMD="$VDRPRG -d -w 60 -p $PORT2 -D 1 -v /video2 -c /usr/local/vdr/etc2
> -E /video2/
> epg.data -t /dev/tty9"

> ALIVE1="/bin/fuser -sn tcp $PORT1"
> ALIVE2="/bin/fuser -sn tcp $PORT2"

> # alternatives
> #ALIVE1="echo 'quit' | nc localhost $PORT1"
> #ALIVE1="/bin/fuser -sn file /dev/ost/frontend0"


> echo "=================="
> echo " external Restart "
> echo "=================="


> # Startet den LIRC-Daemon
> /usr/local/sbin/lircd &



> # Endlos-Schleife
> while (true) do
>       echo "--------------"
>       echo -n "Starting VDR: "; date
>       # SIND DIE DVB-TREIBER BEREITS GELADEN?
>       LSMOD="`/sbin/lsmod | grep -w '^dvb' | wc -l`"
>       if [ $LSMOD -eq 0 ] ; then
> 	echo "Loading DVB drivers"
> 	(cd $DVBDIR; make insmod) > /dev/null 2>&1
>       fi
>       $VDR1CMD; $VDR2CMD
>       sleep 30

>       RESTART=0

>       while [ $RESTART -eq 0 ] ; do

> 	sleep 30

> 	if ( ! $ALIVE1 ) ; then
> 	    echo -n "VDR 1 died (restarting): "; date
> 	    # try to restart process
> 	    $VDR1CMD
> 	    sleep 5
> 	    if ( ! $ALIVE1 ) ; then
> 		RESTART=1
> 		echo "Restart failed - shutting down"
> 	    fi
> 	fi

> 	if ( ! $ALIVE2 && [ $RESTART -eq 0 ] ) ; then
> 	    echo -n "VDR 2 died (restarting): "; date
> 	    $VDR2CMD
> 	    sleep 5
> 	    if ( ! $ALIVE2 ) ; then
> 		RESTART=1
> 		echo "Restart failed - shutting down"
> 	    fi
> 	fi

> 	if [ $RESTART -eq 1 ] ; then
> 	    echo "- - - - - - - -"
> 	    echo -n "VDR died: "; date
> 	    # einige Debugging-Informationen
> 	    /bin/fuser -vn tcp $PORT1 $PORT2
> 	    # ps auxw | grep vdr
> 	    dmesg | grep dvb | tail -4
> 	    killall -TERM vdr
> 	    sleep 5
> 	    killall -9 vdr
> 	    (cd $DVBDIR; make rmmod) > /dev/null 2>&1
> 	fi
>     done
> done

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