[vdr] Re: Read-Only EPG data file?

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

Carsten Koch wrote:
> 
> I have two VDR machines.
> Machine A has multiple cards, is always on and does EPG scans.
> Machine B has only one card, is only on when needed and does
> not do EPG scans.
> 
> Obviously it would be nice if machine B could use machine A's
> EPG data file in a read-only fashion, because that file is
> always up-to-date.
> 
> I took a quick look at the code and saw that this is not
> currently implemented.
> 
> Would it be a good idea to implement an option (--epg-read-only)
> that does this or is there an easier solution?

You could use SVDRP to read the EPG data from one VDR instance and
send it to the other one. Call a script that does this from a cron
job and you're done.

Klaus