Thanks - I built it and and have had it running for about 24 hours:
A couple of observations: I'm seeing this about every 30 - 60 mins as expected, but the timeout seems to be short - not the PowerdownTimeoutM (I assume minutes?) set at 15 in the config file
May 30 08:51:02 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 1/0 May 30 08:51:46 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 1/0
So during the start of recordings and other programme changes, I see quite a lot of activity - e.g
May 29 15:32:32 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 1/0 May 29 15:32:36 ha-server vdr: [2306] channel 41 (Channel 4 HD) event Sun 29.05.2016 15:25-16:30 (VPS: 29.05. 15:25) 'Location, Location, Location' status 4 May 29 15:32:37 ha-server vdr: [2306] channel 4 (BBC TWO HD) event Sun 29.05.2016 15:30-18:00 (VPS: 29.05. 15:30) 'Gymnastics' status 4 May 29 15:33:17 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 1/0 May 29 15:33:38 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 1/0 May 29 15:33:41 ha-server vdr: [2306] channel 45 (Film4) event Sun 29.05.2016 15:05-16:50 (VPS: 29.05. 15:05) 'Catch That Kid' status 4 May 29 15:33:42 ha-server vdr: [2306] channel 40 (Channel 4) event Sun 29.05.2016 15:25-16:30 (VPS: 29.05. 15:25) 'Location, Location, Location' status 4 May 29 15:34:23 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 1/0
Start of (VPS) recording:
May 29 19:50:07 ha-server vdr: [2296] timer 2 (3 2000-2100 VPS 'Top Gear~2016.05.29-20:00-Sun') entered VPS margin May 29 19:50:07 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:50:08 ha-server vdr: [2303] channel 3 (BBC TWO) event Sun 29.05.2016 19:00-20:00 (VPS: 29.05. 19:00) 'Rugby Union' status 4 May 29 19:50:09 ha-server vdr: [2303] channel 7 (BBC NEWS) event Sun 29.05.2016 19:45-20:00 (VPS: 29.05. 19:45) 'Meet The Author' status 4 May 29 19:50:46 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:50:51 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:51:30 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:51:35 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:52:14 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:52:19 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:52:58 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:53:03 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:53:42 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:53:47 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:54:26 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:54:31 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:55:10 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:55:15 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:55:54 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:55:59 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:56:38 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:56:43 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:57:22 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:57:27 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:58:06 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:58:11 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:58:50 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-down - closing frontend 0/0 May 29 19:58:55 ha-server vdr: [2296] dvb tuner: power-up - opening frontend 0/0 May 29 19:59:10 ha-server vdr: [2306] channel 61 (Channel 5 HD) event Sun 29.05.2016 20:00-21:00 (VPS: 29.05. 20:00) 'Secrets of Egypt' status 4 May 29 19:59:11 ha-server vdr: [2296] timer 1 (61 1900-2000 VPS 'Cricket on 5~England v Sri Lanka: Second Test Day Thr') stop
I haven't had a chance to take the server down to insert the power monitor yet, but will do so at convenient time in the next few days
Thanks Richard
On 27/05/2016 14:51, glenvt18 wrote:
Yes, sure. The patch against VDR-2.2.0: http://pastebin.com/D4VQd1rG
While testing set VDR log level to 3 (--log=3) and use this helper script to monitor your frontends: http://pastebin.com/uW4NW0rZ
Don't forget to enable power saving in the Setup->LNB menu.
If you don't have sudo (you're not on Debian or Ubuntu), remove it and run the script as root. It would be great if you could measure the power consumption of you tuners (at least the USB one).
Best, Sergey Chernyavskiy.
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 09:59:06AM +0100, Richard F wrote:
I'd like to give it a go on DVB & DVBT-2 tuners (1 PCI, 1 USB) Would you be kind enough to post a version for VDR2.20 or advise changes necessary?
Thanks Richard
On 26/05/2016 18:44, glenvt18 wrote:
For about a month now. Tested with 3 different DVB-S/S2 tuners with VDR 2.3.1 and VDR 2.2.0 (requires minor changes to the patch) - rock solid. I don't have VPS, so I can't test it. The same is about DVB-T/C tuners. After all, if something doesn't work this feature can be disabled (and it is disabled by default),
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