Vdradmin
Description
VDR-Admin is a daemon that communicates with VDR and shows informations in a Internet browser which opens the adress of the VDR computer with port 8001. In a Config file is set, which computers are allowed to access vdr-admin. Authentication is nessessary, but can be disabled with a patch.
A (non-offical) improved version is Vdradmin AM.
Images
| thumb|none|What's on? | thumb|none|Channels | thumb|none|Timers |
| thumb|none|Recordings | thumb|none|Configuration | thumb|none|Remote Control |
Software requirements
- Browser at client site.
- Perl with modul perl-Compress-Zlib.
Installation
perl-Compress-Zlib (should be included in most distris):
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Compress::Zlib'
Oder per Source:
cd $SOURCEDIR tar zxvf Compress-Zlib-<VERSION>.tar.gz cd Compress-Zlib-<VERSION> perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
for vdr-admin-am [1] only additionally Template:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Template'
Source:
cd $SOURCEDIR tar zxvf Template-Toolkit-<VERSION>.tar.gz cd Template-Toolkit-<VERSION> perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
VDR-Admin:
cd $SOURCEDIR tar xvz vdradmin-<VERSION>.tar.gz mv vdradmin-<VERSION> vdradmin cd vdradmin touch vdradmind.conf ./vdradmind.pl -c # What's your VDR hostname (e.g video.intra.net)? [localhost]: # What's the port VDR listen to SVDRP query's? [2001]: # On which address should vdradmin listen (0.0.0.0 for any)? [0.0.0.0]: # On which port should vdradmin answer? [8001]: # Username? [linvdr]: ente # Password? [linvdr]: ************ # Config file sucessfull written.
Problems
CPU Load
While VDR-Admin loads Data via SVDRP, CPU Load rises up to 99%, VDR is not usable this time.
No EPG-Data
VDR-Admin should be started after VDR, otherwise it takes some minutes to display that data. With calling inside runvdr the problem can be solved.
For example inside the "while (true) do" - Loop this line /usr/local/bin/runvdr which starts vdr-admin two minutes delayed:
echo "su vdr -c /usr/local/bin/vdradmind.pl" | at now + 2 minutes
Missing recording directories
One known reason is that in VDR Options the format can be choosen that way that recording time or length are missing. This case vdradmin will stop gathering information from that recording.
Errors while starting vdradmin
vdrserver vdradmin # ./vdradmind.pl Compress::Zlib object version 1.22 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.33 at ⌐ /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 253. Compilation failed in require at ./vdradmind.pl line 139. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./vdradmind.pl line 139.
This case you should update zlib:
vdrserver vdradmin # cpan update Compress::Zlib
Wrong time in VDR
see [2]
Suchen in vdradmin.pl nach der Zeile die dies beinhaltet:
" if(/^E (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*)/ || /^E (.*) (.*) (.*)/) { "
(im letzten VDRadmin 0.96 ist es die zeile 552, und VDRadminNG 0.97 die 739)
diese muss durch das hier ersetzt werden:
" if(/^E (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*)/ || /^E (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*)/ || /^E (.*) (.*) (.*)/) { "
und dann tuts.
Hints
Vdr-Admin Start on Client
A link should look like this:
http://linvdr:linvdr@192.168.0.2:8001
Access from Internet
Change the standard password of vdr-admin! The proxy module must be started:
Change
# LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libproxy.so
in
LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libproxy.so
Inside Apache's httpd.conf append:
ProxyPass /vdr/vdradmin/ http://VDRip:8001/ ProxyPassReverse /vdr/vdradmin/ http://VDRip:8001/