Adding timer entries from outside

Hi,
I am trying to help someone who has recently got a reelbox.

He wants ot be able to schedule recordings from an outside system (on Windows).

I had a look - and I reckon that we could easily append entries to the timers.conf file ... but he just did it to test and the timers are not picked up.
I had a quick scan of the code and my first impression was that the timers.conf is read on start-up and after that it is only ever written to.
I saw the ".update" mechanism for notifying of updates to the recordings list - but it didn't look there was something similar for timers.
I might have got that wrong though.

Another route that I can see is to go via
http://linvdr.org/projects/vdradmin/
and simply post a URL at it with the required data (not tried this but from the screenshot ... I suspect it would be possible)

I do not speak German - but have tried to scan through Wiki and documentation. I didn't find a clue for this one - but I don't mind going through the German pages again if someone can post a link to a particularly relevant area.

Zitat

Originally posted by sparkie

you may not alter 'timers.conf' directly except VDR is stopped before. Always use the 'svdrpsend.pl UPDT' command on a running system.

In this particular case - the source machine is a Windows box - but I could possibly get him to install Perl.
Just had a quick look and I see that it would send a UPDT followed by QUIT (by default on port 2001) - so I could possibly do that myself from Windows.
The Web page looks like the best route for now though - because I could imagine that the new Realbox user could benefit from having a web interface.

Thanks to both of you for your input.