Feature request: check channels when recording

herrJones commented 12 years ago

Hello,

I wonder if it is possible to build in a check when switching channels when recording:

if no recording is ongoing, no problem...
if recording : 1) check whether the desired channel is available on another interface 2) if no result from the check above, show a warning / confirmation box

It will definitely be a change to both VDR and XBMC plugin. The problem now is that, when zapping and recording at the same time, the recording is ruined when changing frequency.

Thanks,

Jan

pipelka commented 12 years ago

Hmm, ...

You are able to watch channels on the same transponder of the current recording channel. It's impossible to switch to a different transponder if there is an active recording (with one receiver device).

It should be possible to bring up a XBMC notification if there isn't any device to serve the request.

Could you be more precise on describing the case of a ruined recording ?

herrJones commented 12 years ago

the ruined recording is nothing recent. I think it was with the streamdev plugin. However, when trying out TVHeadend, I received a warning when trying to switch transponders. I just thought it could be usefull.

Jan

Van: Alexander Pipelka reply@reply.github.com Aan: herrJones janvanbelle@yahoo.com Verzonden: vrijdag 4 november 20:35 2011 Onderwerp: Re: [vdr-plugin-xvdr] Feature request: check channels when recording (#24)

Hmm, ...

You are able to watch channels on the same transponder of the current recording channel. It's impossible to switch to a different transponder if there is an active recording (with one receiver device).

It should be possible to bring up a XBMC notification if there isn't any device to serve the request.

Could you be more precise on describing the case of a ruined recording ?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/pipelka/vdr-plugin-xvdr/issues/24#issuecomment-2635542

pipelka commented 12 years ago

ok. i just pushed a commit that will show a notification on channel switch for the following cases:

all receivers are busy
an active recording prevents channel switch
error on switching channel
channel unknown

these notifications indicate that it's impossible to switch the channel.

herrJones commented 12 years ago

OK,

I now get a message indicating the channel is currently not available when recording.

However, it doesn't make clear to the user why he/she gets this error (I mean: it does to me now, but maybe a new user gets confused and submits a bug report...) Or is it just depending on the language chosen? (xbmc is configured in dutch over here). I was expecting a message like:

the channel cannot be played because it does not exist / encrypted
the channel cannot be played because of an active recording

... or even with a messagebox where we could choose to abort the current recording blocking the transponder change ...

In addition to this: is there a check when configuring recording jobs on th transponders used / in use ?

Kind regards,

Jan

pipelka commented 12 years ago

Please feel free to send a pull request with changed / translated messages. The VDR server should reject any impossible recording (all receivers is use) but i have to verify this.

herrJones commented 12 years ago

I do have an update with translations for the xbmc plugin, but I seem to be unable to create a pull request (git is read-only) Or I could be doing it completely wrong...

If I reply by mail, with attachments, where does it end up?

pipelka commented 12 years ago

Usually it works like this:

you fork the "xbmc-addon-xvdr" repository
push your changes to your new repository
create a pull request on the github site

pipelka commented 12 years ago

I think all of this is fixed by #29, #32, #35

pipelka / vdr-plugin-xvdr

Feature request: check channels when recording #24