Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >>Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >> >>>Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Christian Wieninger wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Atleast my info about the search timer, that triggered the >>>>>timer/recording will not be visible anymore. What about an >>>>>additional simple submenu in the summary menu of timers/recordings, >>>>>e.g. called with the unused key 'blue' labeled 'Aux'. >>>> >>>> >>>>The 'aux' field shall be of no concern to VDR, so I don't see why there >>>>should be a button wasted to display it. What's so important about that >>>>information, anyway? >>> >>> >>>It's of no use of VDR "itself" but like the title/subitle/description >>>(which are equaly pointless from a purely technical view. Purely >>>technical you only need channel, time & duration, see for e.g. the >>>good old VCR. It only needed the channel, time & duration) it can be >>>vital for the user if s/he needs to find out the culprit who >>>programmed a timer. >>> >>>I had the same question for Master-Timer years ago, because of that >>>when Master-Timer programs a timer it also prints out which >>>"torecord"-block (beginning on what line) was responsible for a >>>specific timer. Then you realize that everyhing is OK, or you tune the >>>"torecord"-block, "done" it or create a blacklist entry to get rid of >>>the timer. >>> >>>So there actually is a reason for the User to see what is recorded in >>>the AUX-field. >>>(And to put "meaningful"-data into the AUX-field. I'm thinking about >>>putting some more into the AUX-field, like the meantioned block-name >>>so that you don't have to look it up elswhere. But i haven't do that >>>in the past because i didn't want to clutter the Summary with too much >>>data.) >> >>What about defining a command in the reccmds.conf file that extracts >>this info from the recording's info.vdr file? > > > If i'm not mistaken we are discussing the "Timer is in the future" case, where is timer existists only in the timerlist. > So there is no info.vdr. :-) Oh, I thought this was about displaying the 'aux' string in the "Recording" menu. Well, I wouldn't mind displaying it in the "Edit timer" menu, since I myself would never see it, anyway. Klaus
