Ludwig Nussel wrote: [Readonly /etc]
Currently that might be true. Nevertheless it would be good to enhance vdr to make it friendlier in that regard though. E.g treating short lived data like a one shot timer or automatically detected stations differently than actual configuration like the ordering of stations.
So you talk about "timers.conf" and "channels.conf"? They are both dynamic in the same way. VDR heavily modifies "channels.conf". Names, PIDs, .... are modified and even new channels are added completely automatically! If I move channels, add channels, ... via OSD, then VDR also modifies this file to store my changes.
Yours
Manuel