epg2vdr¶

This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).¶

Written by: Jörg Wendel (vdr at jwendel dot de)

Homepage: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-epg2vdr
Latest version at: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-epg2vdr.git

See the file COPYING for license information.

Requirements:¶

- VDR 1.7.27+     (since it use the EPG handler interface)
  - libmysql >= 5.07
  - uuid-dev

Ubuntu (12.10):
- libmysqlclient-dev libmysqlclient18
- uuid-dev

Description:¶

This plugin is used to retrieve EPG data into the VDR. The EPG data
was loaded from a mysql database.

Setup Menu:¶

Log level
      Logging level 0-4 { Errors, Infos, ..., Debug, ... }

Updatetime (hours)
      Perform automatic update (default: 2 hours)

Show In Main Menu
      Shows entry in main menu to perform update manually

MySQL Host
      IP of mySQL Server

Blacklist not configured Channels
      Blacklist (like noepg-plug) all channels which not listst in the channelmap table

Get the source from git:¶

get the source - probably done, when you reading this locally:
git clone http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-epg2vdr.git

update the source:
cd /to/your/source/epg2vdr
git pull

throwing away local changes and update to latest source:
cd /to/your/source/epg2vdr
git checkout -f master
git reset --hard
git pull

setup.conf (put the IP of your mySQL server):¶

epg2vdr.UpdateTime = 2
  epg2vdr.ShowInMainMenu = 1
  epg2vdr.Blacklist = 1
  epg2vdr.LogLevel = 1
  epg2vdr.DbHost = 192.168.xxx.xxx
  epg2vdr.DbName = epg2vdr
  epg2vdr.DbUser = epg2vdr
  epg2vdr.DbPass = epg

SVDRP Commands:¶

The plugin provides SVDRP commands to control the plugin via command line or
  shell scripts.

RELOAD      - Drop the whiole EPG and reload all events from the database
  UPDATE      - Trigger a update to load all new events from database

Installation:¶

- Patch the VDR. Patches found in patches/ since vdr 1.7.27.
For Versions after 1.7.31 you need only the epghandler-segment-transfer.patch
Sinve VDR 2.1.1 no patch is needed!

- Unpack the package into "PLUGINS/src" directory.
- Call "make plugins" in the VDR root directory.
- Start vdr with plugin epg2vdr (-Pepg2vdr) the database must running already

Create database and user:¶

already done when the epgd was installed!

HINTS:¶

- Don't load the epgtableid0 (epgtableid0 disables VDRs new EPG handler interface)
- Don't load the noepg plugin
(best you don't load any other epg manipulating plugin or patch if you not shure how they work together ;))