some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
In: VDR
9 Feb 2008Within the last weeks two friends built their own VDR system and installed ct’ VDR 6.1 on it. I helped them a bit configuring their remote control with lirc but all in all it was a quite smooth installation. One thing that I had to do on both systems was to correct the time, on [...]
Today I experienced a problem with my VDR linux system I never had in the last years on any linux system. I switched on my system and wondered why I could not connect with ssh. Then I realized that no service was running – no samba, no http, no vdr … I had to connect [...]
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 [...]
In: VDR
19 Mar 2007Damn. My cable provider Liwest encrypted all channels today. I was using my VDR now for over three years and now … it is black. Without a smartcard I will not be able to receive digital TV channels anymore. Now I have to think about a solution – adding a common interface to my VDR [...]
From time to time I have to update the channels.conf of my VDR. On the vdr-wiki there is a page which holds regularly updated channel lists for many networks. I was not able to find a program that allows me to update my existing list with the information from the new list. I want to [...]