Hi, thanks Klaus, this works like a charm :) Christian Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > On 06/08/09 08:59, Christian Wieninger wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> the epgsearch plugin handles some tasks as separate threads, that also >> use SVDRP to talk to VDR. Currently these threads are started after a >> fixed time (e.g. 20s) to give VDR the time to start up. >> A user reported that epgsearch fails in SVDRP communication, because VDR >> was still waiting for its devices (and therefore is not yet ready to >> accept SVDRP connections): >> >> Jun 3 20:07:40 vdr vdr: [3466] not all devices ready after 30 seconds >> >> These 30 seconds are only defined in vdr.c and are therefore 'invisible' >> to plugins. So I'm looking for 'clean' way to check if VDR is up and ready. >> Of course, one could do any SVDRP command, e.g. 'help', and check the >> result, but thats quite cumbersome. >> Next idea: use cPlugin::Housekeeping() to signal the threads that VDR is >> idle now after startup. This works, but sometimes takes up to >90s. >> Any idea how to get a better solution? >> > > You could implement cPlugin::MainThreadHook(), which is called at the > end of the main loop. > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
