Hi Helmut, you can wait for VDR responding to svdrp-connections.
No I can't - net.local is not started yet ;)
PS: Some plugins seem to do too much in its initialization routine. e.g. audiorecorder tries to load all filenames at start which takes for me around 30s.
Luckily I only have about 300 recordings from audiorecorder and it takes no time during startup ...