Am 06.01.2014 09:59, schrieb Reinhard Nissl: > But this still seems error prone -- looks like a more complex solution > is needed which keeps track of how often a transponder has been seen > dead over a certain period of time before declaring these channels > OBSOLETE (and later delete them automatically). > > I don't know if it is worth to extend the file format of channels.conf > for that tracking, but at least in memory VDR could keep track of that, > starting from scratch whenever VDR is restarted.
I have a little patch running doing exactly this, the patch just tracks the last-seen timestamp within the running session, or the state 'not seen in this session'. Load/save is not implemented, everything gets reset at program start. Its a whopping 8-lines patch. This is accompanied by a plugin that extends the last-seen time by syncing with the patch data from time to time, and keep the time together with the channel ID persistently stored in a separate file. If a channel wasn't announced for a month, it gets marked as gone. However, this doesn't differentiate why a channel wasn't seen, for example because the machine was off for a longer time, or the required receiver isn't connected. Cheers, Udo _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
