On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 14:15 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: > I would like all recordings to be managed/controlled by the > master vdr as this would seem to be the best solution. > However if I have say a single twin tuner DVB-T card and the > master vdr is controlling all recordings is it still > possible for the remote clients to schedule a recording via > the master vdr if the timersync plugin is used? I think that > you are saying this is possible... which is great! Ÿes. All timer stuff works just as when using single VDR - if you set a timer at any client, it is immediately transferred to server (and visible to all other clients too). Plugin monitors timers state and synchronices all timer changes between VDR instances. Only master vdr does recordings, recording is completely disabled at all client VDRs (there's no way to record anything on client VDR even if one wants to). There's one restriction: With timersync you can't (at least yet) modify timers that are currently recording - such timers can be modified only at master VDR. > I have created separate /etc/vdr2 & /etc/vdr3 directories > by copying /etc/vdr Will this work ok? Yes. Maybe you need to configure streamdev server address (127.0.0.1) for clients, but you can do that from client setup menu when you have client running. Be sure to empty all client VDR timers.conf files, if timersync refuses to load etc. you might end up having N*3 recordings running immediately at startup :) One more thing: using suspendoutput plugin with some proper timeout value in every VDR instance might be good idea - it releases streamdev VTP connection and server-side DVB devices for other use when the client is not in use. - Petri _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
