Those days
The last days were one of those when I ask myself: Do I really need a video recorder with a secure shell 
I had some troubles with my VDR. It started three weeks ago when suddenly after working without a problem for about half a year the screen went black. This was caused by an automatic update my Conax module made (see my vdr-portal post for more details).
I took the chance and set up my VDR from scratch with the newest available distro (ct’ VDR 6.1) and I changed my hardware too.
After some frustrating hours of installing and configuring everything works fine now again. I got a new case and changed the motherboard. The toughest part was configuring lirc. The ctvdrcfg tries to install lirc-modules which are only distributed on the ct’ VDR 6.1 cdrom and are not in any repository. After adding the cdrom to my apt sources again I was able to install lirc.
