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[vdr] Re: two VDR boxes
>
> Interesing to hear as I'm still planning and testing something alike.
me too :)
>
> How do you handle config / epg data?
>
> Did you patch vdr to put the epg data into a different directory than
> /video on the server?
>
> How do you manage the timers? Is there a patch for streamdev to put
> timers onto the server?
>
> Or do you record with the clients into the mounted /video of the server?
> (Something I do not want to do since I'll be using wlan and this would
> be a waste of bandwith).
>
> kind regards Philip
You probably want to do the same thing as I: set timers on the client and have
the server record it.
So I would be glad to hear if you or anyone else has a simple solution to
this.
First I thought of shared config files like timers.conf, but that doesnt work
because the server vdr would not be aware of any 'external' changes made by
the client.
I thought of using a perl script for example, that watches the clients
timers.conf for changes (by utilising fam, there is a nice perl modul for
that) and then sends the timer entries via svdrp to the server. Kinda
hacky :) but it could work. However, I never digged into this any further.
I would prefer a simple 'remote-timer' feature inside the VDR core.
The timer menu could be extended by one entry which would describe on which
machine the recording should be done. If it is set to a remote machine, then
the entry could be sent via svdrp to the specified computer. All this could
be done inside VDR with some simple patches I think (optimisticly).
Or extend the timer menu in a way that you directly modify the remote
timers.conf instead of the local one.
As to EPG, I think that there is no urgend need to have a shared epg. any
client can have its own epg.data file in its private config dir for example.
and the video dirs can of course be shared via nfs so all recordings are
available to any clients.
As I see it, the only problem is handling the timers. (and have the
channels.conf in sync on all VDRs, but that can be done manually)
So is anyone volunteering to dig into the timer handling issue ? :)
my c++ is rather limited...
greetings Tom
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