Hello,
I apology if this subject has already been discussed before, but i couldn't find any definitive answer to my problem :
Sometimes i don't tune in some given channels for some time, just to realise that the channel's name has changed. I started to reorganise my channels.conf using VDR "mark channels" then move them up/down, and after i was done i zapped through channels for a while and then shut down VDR.
I was disappointed to see that my changes weren't saved and that i had to start all over again.
So what's the best way to avoid such a mistake ?
- tune to somme channels, wait a few seconds that names (and pids) are updated, write the list down, and then manually edit channels.conf with a text editor ?
- use a plugin (channelsort) ?
- wait some time so that VDR writes the changes down ? (i don't remember what are the conditions so that VDR triggers files update, IIRC, no epg scan, no activity for xx minutes)
My config has only one FF DVB-S card.
Thanks much,
Philippe
PS: same problem would eventually occur to epg data, so any advice is welcome as well to handle epg data updates.
Philippe Gramoullé wrote:
Hello,
I apology if this subject has already been discussed before, but i couldn't find any definitive answer to my problem :
Sometimes i don't tune in some given channels for some time, just to realise that the channel's name has changed. I started to reorganise my channels.conf using VDR "mark channels" then move them up/down, and after i was done i zapped through channels for a while and then shut down VDR.
I was disappointed to see that my changes weren't saved and that i had to start all over again.
So what's the best way to avoid such a mistake ?
tune to somme channels, wait a few seconds that names (and pids) are updated, write the list down, and then manually edit channels.conf with a text editor ?
use a plugin (channelsort) ?
wait some time so that VDR writes the changes down ?
(i don't remember what are the conditions so that VDR triggers files update, IIRC, no epg scan, no activity for xx minutes)
My config has only one FF DVB-S card.
Thanks much,
Philippe
PS: same problem would eventually occur to epg data, so any advice is welcome as well to handle epg data updates.
Channels are only saved immediately after the user has explicitly made a change to a channel (or a timer). After automatic modifications the channels are saved every 10 minutes.
EPG data is also saved every 10 minutes.
Klaus
Hello Klaus,
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:41:07 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de wrote:
| Channels are only saved immediately after the user has explicitly made | a change to a channel (or a timer). After automatic modifications the | channels are saved every 10 minutes. | | EPG data is also saved every 10 minutes.
Ok, thanks for the information, i'll adapt my shutdown script.
Philippe