Carsten Koch wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > ... > >>> What I would *love* to see is the following feature: >>> Every time VDR does an EPG scan, it reads from the channel it just >>> switched to. If there are no data within a few seconds, it increments >>> a number in the channel entry, if there are data, it clears this >>> number. If the number exceeds a configurable threshold, the >>> channel entry is deleted. >>> Before adding new channels to channels.conf, VDR switches to the >>> channel and reads from it. If there are no data within a few seconds, >>> it does not add it. >>> >>> With this feature, only interesting new channels (like the ones you >>> observed above) would appear at the end of channels.conf, inactive >>> channels would disappear automatically after a while and the whole >>> channels.conf would stay a lot cleaner and more manageable. >> >> >> >> Sounds like a good thing to do in a plugin > > > How do I extend the EPG scan in a plugin? > > Carsten. You don't ;-) Since you'll need to set up a cReveiver to actually see whether you can receive anything from a channel, you should simply go trough the channels and try to receive from them. If one of them doesn't deliver data, you could move it to a different place in the channel list or do something else with it. Personally I believe this will become obsolete, anyway, once user defined channel lists are possible (yes, I know, I've been mentioning this on several occasions in the past, but it's still pretty high on my list of things to do...). Klaus
