On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Seppo Ingalsuo <seppo.ingal...@iki.fi>wrote:
> Hi, > > In a setup with multiple vdr instances sharing the same dvb tuners it's > practical to keep one as a master that upgrades channels.conf > automatically and the other instances get periodically a new copy of the > channels configuration. That allows manual editing of channels in the > master vdr and running plugins like autosort there. > > I'm now killing my secondary vdr instances while the channels are copied > by a cron job every night. It would be more practical for remote > vdr-sxfe clients to keep vdr processes running to avoid loosing the > streaming connection. Is it possible to signal somehow vdr to reread > it's entire channels.conf when it has been changed externally? By SVDRP? > I'm not aware of such thing, but if someone is going to implement it, there is a need for 2 commands, something like: - Pause channels update - Reload channels list + resume update Otherwise there is a chance VDR update will overwrite the new channel list. > > Seppo > > PS. It would be nice if multiple displays with shared server related > architecture improvements were on Klaus' hidden roadmap ;^) At the > moment when running several vdrs there is a mess with channels > synchronization, live tv pausing, live & recording dvb subtitles, > generally problems due to pay-tv watching (CAID as zero) by preventing > allowing pid updates on secondary clients, etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >
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