Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Christian Wieninger wrote:
Atleast my info about the search timer, that triggered the timer/recording will not be visible anymore. What about an additional simple submenu in the summary menu of timers/recordings, e.g. called with the unused key 'blue' labeled 'Aux'.
The 'aux' field shall be of no concern to VDR, so I don't see why there should be a button wasted to display it. What's so important about that information, anyway?
It's of no use of VDR "itself" but like the title/subitle/description (which are equaly pointless from a purely technical view. Purely technical you only need channel, time & duration, see for e.g. the good old VCR. It only needed the channel, time & duration) it can be vital for the user if s/he needs to find out the culprit who programmed a timer.
I had the same question for Master-Timer years ago, because of that when Master-Timer programs a timer it also prints out which "torecord"-block (beginning on what line) was responsible for a specific timer. Then you realize that everyhing is OK, or you tune the "torecord"-block, "done" it or create a blacklist entry to get rid of the timer.
So there actually is a reason for the User to see what is recorded in the AUX-field. (And to put "meaningful"-data into the AUX-field. I'm thinking about putting some more into the AUX-field, like the meantioned block-name so that you don't have to look it up elswhere. But i haven't do that in the past because i didn't want to clutter the Summary with too much data.)
What about defining a command in the reccmds.conf file that extracts this info from the recording's info.vdr file?
If i'm not mistaken we are discussing the "Timer is in the future" case, where is timer existists only in the timerlist. So there is no info.vdr. :-)
Oh, I thought this was about displaying the 'aux' string in the "Recording" menu. Well, I wouldn't mind displaying it in the "Edit timer" menu, since I myself would never see it, anyway.
Christian actually meant both cases.
Whereas i was only talking about the Timer-Menu, because i think it is (more) important to be able to figure out the culprit of a timer before it records. You may want (or have to) eliminate a timer before it records for whatever reason.
Bis denn