Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ...
What I would *love* to see is the following feature: Every time VDR does an EPG scan, it reads from the channel it just switched to. If there are no data within a few seconds, it increments a number in the channel entry, if there are data, it clears this number. If the number exceeds a configurable threshold, the channel entry is deleted. Before adding new channels to channels.conf, VDR switches to the channel and reads from it. If there are no data within a few seconds, it does not add it.
With this feature, only interesting new channels (like the ones you observed above) would appear at the end of channels.conf, inactive channels would disappear automatically after a while and the whole channels.conf would stay a lot cleaner and more manageable.
Sounds like a good thing to do in a plugin
How do I extend the EPG scan in a plugin?
Carsten.