About Scheduler

Scheduler allows to control external jobs from within VDR. This is especially useful if your VDR is not running continiously. Sample applications could be an EPG update or backups.

optional wakeup of VDR to execute a job (no dummy timers needed anymore)
prevent a shutdown while a job is still executed
optional announcements of job start/finish via OSD
start external jobs via SVDRP in the context of VDR

Download

Current version: scheduler-0.1.6
Current beta: s. directory
Previous versions: download archiv

Change log: HISTORY

Installation

The installation follows the common way:

extract in the plugins source directory: tar -xzvf vdr-scheduler-x.x.x.tgz
symlink the directory: ln -s scheduler-x.x.x scheduler
change to VDR source directory and start compiling plugins: cd /usr/local/src/VDR && make plugins
start with VDR: vdr -Pscheduler

Further information about start parameters can be found in the README

Screenshots

Useful links

THE german board for VDR