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Hi,
is it possible to connect with wget, curl or telnet to the vompserver and send a command to activate a video stream? If yes, how? This will make the debugging much easier.

Claus

I have two ideas.
1) Maybe different library versions are the reason. On the x86'er, I use Ubuntu as compile system. For the RPI, raspian is the compile system.
2) I can use raspian in a qemu VM to check if it's running if the server run on a other raspian system. So both will use the same library versions.

Claus

That's a problem. Since I have only one RPI, I can only test again the same Distry Version (this includes the same VDR and vompserver sources) on a x86, and alternatively the server on the same RPI as the client is running on.
If the server is running on second System (an x86'er) it works well. If the server is running on the same RPI, I get the connection lost error.

Claus

I have try to find a solution for this by my self, but without a result. OK, I find a way, to make it possible to find also a local server automatically, by simply use different ports for the client and the server, but this don't helps by the connection lost problem on select a channel.
Do you have any idea what can be the reason for this and how I can fix it? This is at the moment my most important problem.

Claus

Hi,
if you implement this, it will make sense, to make also the default volume (at start up) configurable.

Claus

No, I use the vdr-1.7.29 and not the VDR crashes, but the vompclient loose the connection.
You can find here a logfile: http://www.minidvblinux.de/download/vompclient.log.lost
I have selected a channel at 9:40:09
The connection lost at 9:40:30

I have no problem if the vompclient is connected to the same vdr version on a other machine.

Claus

Hi,
since I made some tests with a local running VDR, I must see, that this don't work. I start the vompclient with the option "-s 127.0.0.1". This helps to connect the vompclient to the local VDR, but if I select a TV channel (I can see the channellist and EPG data), the connection lost and the vompclient hang and do no reconnect.
Do you have any idea how I or you can fix this issue.

Claus

Thank you for this information. So I will make no updates the next days.
Do you think, it will be possible in future to set the analog output volume? OK, this is normally not important, but in my kind, I will connect a normal TFT Screen and a separate Audio system. To change the volume I want to use my remote control that also control the vompclient.

Claus

Hi,

the volume control don't work. It is possible to change the volume setting by keyboard, but this has no effect for the volume. Also a change of the volume by the alsamixer has no effect.

Claus

You can disable the cursor on console 8:
setterm -cursor off -blank 0 -powerdown 0 > /dev/tty8

I use this on the MLD. It also disable the power saving for the console.

Claus

Thank you for the information.
I know, it's in development. And I'm happy, that its works already so well, since it's at the moment the only working vdr frontend for the RPI!

Claus

Hi,

is it a big thing, to delete at minimum the whole screen when entering a menu? At the moment I will see parts of the last menu around the current one, if this is smaller than the last one. That's not really nice ;(
(Skinning the theme is not important for me. If I want, it's no problem to change the colours in the source code, or later also change the background image that will be compiled in)

Claus

I have already add the mode selection to the Webif of the MLD. So it's also easy to select a 50Hz mode.

Claus

Hi,

yesterday I have test the control via cec and it works out of the box (after I have enable it at the TV settings).
But the key repeat is very slow. Is it possible to sped up this, or make it configurable? Also my keyboard has absolutely no key repeat. Is this normal and can I change it?

Claus

After read a bit about uinput, I think, it should be no problem to use lirc with the actual version. Unfortunately my igorplug usb reciver wont work on the RPI. So I can not check this now.

Claus