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@@ -90,6 +90,24 @@ option to set the controlling terminal, as in vdr:123:respawn:/usr/local/bin/vdr --terminal=/dev/tty8 -w 60 +Locale +------ + +When presenting the list of recordings, VDR sorts the entries according to +the current "locale" settings. This makes sure that special characters (like +the German "umlauts") appear at the expected positions. In order to benefit +from this you may have to set the locale environment variable, for instance + + export LANG=de_DE + +for a German locale. If you don't want this to result in German error messages +in the log file, it is sufficient to just set + + export LC_COLLATE=de_DE + +which only influences the way strings are sorted and leaves error messages +in English. + Automatic restart in case of hangups: ------------------------------------- @@ -109,7 +127,7 @@ active, the user has been inactive for at least MinUserInactivity minutes and the next timer event is at least MinEventTimeout minutes in the future (see the Setup parameters in MANUAL). -The command given in the '-s' option will be called with two parameters. +The command given in the '-s' option will be called with four parameters. The first one is the time (in UTC) of the next timer event (as a time_t type number), and the second one is the number of seconds from the current time until the next timer event. Your program can choose which one to use @@ -129,6 +147,12 @@ and only perform the system shutdown. A program that uses the second parameter to set the hardware for restart must therefore also check whether the first parameter is '0'. +The third parameter contains the number of the channel that will be recorded +by the next timer (or 0 if no timer is present), and the fourth parameter +contains the file name of the recording as defined in the timer (or an empty +string if no timer is present). These can be used by the shutdown program to +show that information on some display interface etc. + If a timer is currently recording, the parameters will reflect the start time of that timer. This means that the first parameter will be a time in the past, and the second parameter will be a negative number. This only |