From what I can see, everything works as expected. You can safely lessen
the power-down timeout to 3 minutes. This will be enough for EPG scan as
you have at most 8 transponders/multiplexes which gives 8 * 1/3 = 2m40s
- see 'EIT scan ...' messages.
As for those small intervals of activity you mentioned, it happens
because some 'preparation' work is done before a timer starts. VDR
tries to switch to the timer's transponder and gather EPG data. For a
VPS timer this begins within VPS margin and an hour before the timer
start time. For a non-VPS timer it begins one minute before the timer
start time. I've added 30 seconds to the occupied timeout (see my
cDevice::SetOccupied() comment) to avoid frequent on/off switching. So,
you're likely to see 38-second (or, sometimes, a bit more) periods of
activity. If you still worry about it, keep you server idle for 2 hours
before a nearest VPS timer starts and paste the log.
I've removed 'sudo' from the monitor script:
http://pastebin.com/8JDffAXF
Run it as user 'vdr' for some time. It will draw you a nice 'map' of
your devices' activity.
If you notice channel switch failures, let me know.
Do your tuners get warm when active?
Thanks again for testing.
Best,
Sergey Chernyavskiy.
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:43:01PM +0100, Richard F wrote:
> OK Sergey, I've posted a log with your patch applied + log level 3 -
> about 3 hours worth There was a recording 16:15 to 16:45, other than
> that idle I can run it for longer if you need it, though it's creating
> a fair bit of log. I seem to get a lot of erroneous EPGsearch results
> at level 3, not sure why. http://pastebin.com/8DbYQdTX
>
> Let me know what it tells you Thanks Richard
>
>
> On 30/05/2016 15:19, glenvt18 wrote:
> > Could you attach (or, better, upload to pastebin.com) the whole log
> > file. Are you running vdr with --log=3? I need to see 'idle timer'
> > debug messages and some other debug stuff. Could you also apply this
> > change
> >
> > diff --git a/eitscan.c b/eitscan.c index 3899e00..b1c8c13 100644 ---
> > a/eitscan.c +++ b/eitscan.c @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ void
> > cEITScanner::Process(void) Skins.Message(mtInfo, tr("Starting EPG
> > scan")); } } - //dsyslog("EIT
> > scan: device %d source %-8s tp %5d", Device->DeviceNumber() + 1,
> > *cSource::ToString(Channel->Source()), Channel->Transponder()); +
> > dsyslog("EIT scan: device %d source %-8s tp %5d",
> > Device->DeviceNumber() + 1, *cSource::ToString(Channel->Source()),
> > Channel->Transponder()); if (lastActivity == 0) // forced scan - set
> > idle timer for each channel switch; // this prevents powering down
> > while scanning a transponder --
> >
> > Thanks for testing.
> >
> > Best, Sergey Chernyavskiy.
>
>
>
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