[vdr] Re: Singal strength, Channels display and Actuator

["Thomas Bergwinkl" <bergwinkl.thomas@vr-web.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of a different approach, which will also work for setups
> without an actuator. cDevice will get a new function that reports the
> strength of the received signal, and the channel display will stay up
> until the signal exceeds a given lower limit for at least 5 seconds

Will it then be possible for a plugin to show a message like "Dish is
moving" as long the signal is low?

> (it will also re-appear if the signal strength drops below that limit
> for more than a given time).
>

I don't understand for what purpose.

> Additionally there will be a new plugin interface that gets called
> periodically from the tuning thread of the cDevice, through which a
> plugin can implement whatever additional actions are necessary to
> allow for the reception of a given channel (this is not limited to
> moving a dish - it could be anything).
>

I think this is a good idea, I'm looking forward to this.

Thomas