Hi,
here's a new release of the epgsearch plugin.
You can find it here:
http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html
wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.5.tgz
What's new?
2005-07-02: Version 0.9.5 - epgsearch has now its own menu for standard timer editing with the following extensions (timer programming is based on SVDRP, so this should be configured!, Screenshot of changes: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/timermenu.jpg): * additional item 'directory' with selection of existing directories with key 'blue' (also supports EPG variables like "%category%" when using ext. EPG info) * item 'file' can be extended with subtitle (if present) pressing key 'blue' * item 'file' and 'directory' can be reset to standard pressing key 'yellow' * when editing weekdays then item 'day' can be customized with a submenu for arbitrary weekdays selection - menu 'userdefined days of week' for search timers now starts with 'Monday' instead of 'Sunday' - menu 'Select directory' now lists distinct items of the following sources: * current recording directories * current timer directories * directories used in search timers * directories specified in epgsearchdirs.conf key 'yellow' can be used to change the depth of the directory listing. - Progressbar in 'Next' can now be switched on/off with its own setup item. - support for language dependent commands for EPG (default loading uses epgsearchcmds.conf, if there is no epgsearchcmds-XXX.conf, where XXX is the language code as shown in i18n.c, see MANUAL) - directly calling a command with key '1'..'9' will now go back to the calling menu after execution instead of displaying menu 'commands' - added a commandline option '-c' or '--config' to specify the plugins own config directory (option). - added commandline help for 'vdr --help - thanks again to Mike Constabel (vejoun@vdrportal) for great beta testing and suggestions, and to Rolf Ahrenberg for finnish translation.
What is it about?
EPG-Search can be used as a replacement for the default schedules menu entry. It looks like the standard schedules menu, but adds some additional functions:
- Commands for EPG entries with 5 built-in commands like 'show repeats', 'create search'. One can add own commands for other needs, like adding a VDRAdmin auto-timer.
- Add up to 4 user-defined times to 'now' and 'next'
- Searching the EPG: Create reusable queries, which can also be used as 'search timers'.
- Search timers: Search for broadcasts in the background and add a timer if one matches (similar to VDRAdmin's auto-timers) or simply make an annoucement about it via OSD
- Progress bar in 'What's on now' and 'What's on next'
- Shift the time displayed by keypress, e.g. 'What's on now' + 30 minutes
- Start menu can be setup between 'Schedule' or 'What's on now'
- background check for timer conflicts (requires a recent timeline plugin)
- detailed epg menu (summary) allows jumping to the next/previous event
- support for extended EPG info for search timers
Works only for vdr-1.3.x (x>=7). Tested on 1.3.10 to 1.3.24. Parts of the sources are based on the repeating-EPG patch from Gerhard Steiner, who gave me the permission to use them (thanks for his work!).
Best regards,
Christian Wieninger