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Up to now I do not have any crashes anymore with the vanilla version.

Hey Chris,
I am currently porting my vdr shutdown stuff to the new env. Is there any interest in applying it to the vomp. I also want to expand the functionallity to ask the user after pressing the power switch whether he wants to cancel shutdown of vdr with a timeout. In case cancel is not pressed a shutdown command is sent to vdr which simulates the power key press on vdr side. In case any thread blocks shutdown vdr will be shutdown as soon as all threads ended.
What currently exists is the shutdown stuff without asking the vomp user at power off. This means vdr shutdown is always sent when enabled. In case a other vomp is connected shutdown of vdr is blocked due to the active stuff you implented now.

Thanks Chris, this deprecates the patch I have made. I did not have a look at your solution, but I think as it is pretty obvious it has  the same solutiuon. Thanks again and so far it looks great to me.

@Lutz Yes it will only apply to old remote controllers.

I had a look at the code and found out that it is connected to systems with the old remote, as these remote controllers do not provide extra buttons for scrolling and channel switching. If you have a look at the vvideolivetv.cc you will see. As soon as the osd is visible with the epg data and stuff the buttons are mapped for scrolling but not to zapping. As soon as this osd is not visible anymore they are mapped to channel switching.
This might be the cause why it is only obvious to people with "old" mvps.
I wrote a little patch which suppresses scrolling while showing the epg osd while switching. Scrolling is then only activated if the osd is shown another time by pressing play or ok. I will test it tonight and if it works I will post it here.

Have a nice Friday 13th :-)

Hello Chris,
I recently started testing the new stuff. What I came about is the problem of zapping. I am not sure whether this problem occured just with the last cvs update of the dongle, but here it is what I came about.
When I switch from one channel to the other I am not able to switch again until the splash that shows the current epg data and connection stuff is hidden again. What happens instead is that the channel up and down stuff now navigates through th epg data in the splash. When I press ok to force the splash to go away and then switch up or down again it works again until the new channels splash info shows up.
As I wrote already I do not know whether this came up with the last cvs update, because I did not test heavy switching before.
One possible solution would be to disable epg scrolling at initial switching and enable epg scrolling the next time the splash is shown by pressing ok.

How can i apply the patches? Is there any new menu-entry for shutdown of the vdr-box? I can't see anything new ...

... how can i apply the patches to my vdr? must i instal a vomp-developing-enviroment?

Hello Kai,
as long as you only want to use the wake on lan stuff you only have to patch the sources of the vomp hardware box. You apply the patches to the sources of the client, that runs in the vomp. This is only needed in case you want to create a dongle bin file of your own. In case it is sufficient for you to only have the wol functionality, you can also simply download the patched dongle.bin file provided at my homepage. Then you do not have to patch anything. It is only necessary in both scenarios to do modification at the vomp client's side.
There are no optical changes in the menu. It is only required to have the vdr running while you powerup your vomp-client. It then remembers the mac address of the vdr server as long as it is connected to the powerplug.

I hope this helped you out.

Matthias

In case you want to know more about patching have a look at "man patch" :-)

This means, all of my patches (except from the shutdown patch)  are currently in the main tree. As soon as I have some free time (after working on my mediad plugin), I am going to implement the sleep timer functions :-).

By the way, Chris, do you plan to implement the shutdown stuff also?

hello hondansx,
this would require, that each one of you has to build a dongle of its own. As I already mentioned once, it is neccessary for the mvp to get the mac address from the already running vdr server, while booting for the first time. as my mvp is started only once without removing the power again this is a suitable solution.
As hardcoding the mac adress is a very bad thing I have not found another solution to get the mac address. In addition to that entering the mac is not so easy, therefore finding the mac address of the vdr automatically is a very userfriednly solution.

cu
pompase

hi,
what I meant was to mount the logo dir from within the dongle by configuration, or to even get the logos by the vomp protocol from the vomp-server plugin (to make it a seamless integration, hence no config of the nfs neccessary). The second option in my opinion would be great, as some people already have some logos running on the vdr.

Wouldn't it be a good way to include these logos via a nfs share? In my opinion this could be done very easily. As the diskspace on the mvp is very narrow it would be a good way to save data on an nfs share.

Hello,
I just released another set of patches, which enable the vomp client to shutdown the vdr in case no other vomp client is watching, no one watches TV at the vdr or a recording is done or something else blocks the shutdown process. In this case the vdr will shutdown. To be able to do so a patch is required at the vomp-client and on the server side. Only if both sides are patched the shutdown stuff works.
In the future I will add additional functions like sleeptimer to this.
Currently you can download the stuff at http://www.pompase.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=33&func=select&id=5. For the client side there is either a patch or a precompiled dongle available.
Happy testing :-)

I just revently managed to apply the wake on lan patch to the current vomp dongle (0.2.6). The patch and the dongle file is availabel at my homepage:
http://www.pompase.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=33&func=select&id=5
Happy testing :-)

hello,
i am currently working on patches on the 0.26 release. As the develpment environment was released just recently I am going to start doing it this weekend. I hope not too much has changed, so that it will not be a to big mess.
You can find the current patches at my homepage http://www.pompase.net at the download section.

Hello Chris,
as I already promised I am currently working on a vdr shutdown procedure for the vomp as well ( currently not including the sleeptimer function). In addition to that I Implemented the active stuff into the vompserver plugin as well. Are you interested in implementing this to vomp 0.2.5? I would be very keen on getting it into the normal code base as I do not like this patch collecting stuff from all kind of different sites. I am currently also working on a more slim version of the wol patch. As some variables are allocated which are not needed anymore.

Matthias

P.S. full sleeptimer functionality depends on the time that is left until 0.2.5 release