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A way to force writing the epg.data ?

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Matthias Schniedermeyer Dec. 8, 2005, 8:07 p.m. UTC 
  Gregoire Favre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way (maybe with SVDRP) to force VDR to write the epg.data to
> the disk in order to be able to use mastertimer on it ?
> 
> Thank you very much,


Personally i've patched VDR ever since i've started writing Master-Timer 
nearly 5 years ago.

The patch 'shifts' the 10 minutes writing to:
the epg.data-file has to be at least 10 minutes out of time

After that you just have to make the epg.data file a bit older and VDR 
updates it the next moment.
touch -r /bin/bash /video/video0/epg.data

Here's the patch:






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Grégoire Favre Dec. 9, 2005, 10:03 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:

> Personally i've patched VDR ever since i've started writing Master-Timer 
> nearly 5 years ago.

Wouldn't it be just great to have an SVDRP command that save the
epg.data without the need to patch VDR ?

> The patch 'shifts' the 10 minutes writing to:
> the epg.data-file has to be at least 10 minutes out of time

Great, I have to look on how to apply such a patch against vdr-1.3.37.

Thank you very much,
Matthias Schniedermeyer Dec. 9, 2005, 10:31 p.m. UTC | #2 
Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>Personally i've patched VDR ever since i've started writing Master-Timer 
>>nearly 5 years ago.
> 
> Wouldn't it be just great to have an SVDRP command that save the
> epg.data without the need to patch VDR ?

I think i asked Klaus about that sometime.
Guess it just wasn't important. :-)

I've always "scan-channels"-d manually for nearly 5 years.
But you just made me change that script to do the 'touch' after zapping 
though the channels, so that i don't have to do that manually anymore.

Thank you for saving me a few seconds per day. :-)

I can't believe that in five years that idea never came to my mind. :-)

>>The patch 'shifts' the 10 minutes writing to:
>>the epg.data-file has to be at least 10 minutes out of time
> 
> Great, I have to look on how to apply such a patch against vdr-1.3.37.

A grep for epg.data should quickly unravel where VDR looks if the 10 
minutes are over.



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Patch

diff -Nur vdr-1.2.6a/eit.c vdr-1.2.6/eit.c
--- vdr-1.2.6a/eit.c    Sun Oct 12 13:05:42 2003
+++ vdr-1.2.6/eit.c     Fri Aug  6 11:28:13 2004
@@ -1194,6 +1194,15 @@ 
           time_t now = time(NULL);
           struct tm tm_r;
           struct tm *ptm = localtime_r(&now, &tm_r);
+         struct stat st;
+         if (stat (AddDirectory(VideoDirectory, "epg.data"),&st) != 0)
+         {
+            lastDump = 0;
+         }
+         else
+         {
+            lastDump = st.st_mtime;
+         }
           if (now - lastCleanup > 3600 && ptm->tm_hour == 5)
           {
              cMutexLock MutexLock(&schedulesMutex);