Console Plugin for VDR

This Site supports the VDR project from Klaus Schmidinger.

Your TV screen and a keyboard that are connected to a VDR box are building a terminal. With this terminal you can manage several consoles.

In the OSD of VDR you can open as many consoles as you want. In each console you can start a program that runs in the background. Your inputs to the keyboard are redirected to the current selected console as well as the output that these programs generate are redirected into the OSD.

With this setup you can look after some things that you want to know but have no entry in the commands.conf file for that without the necessarity to connect a monitor to your box or make a network connection from an other computer with telnet or ssh.

Also you can run longer tasks such as converting a movie and you won't VDR to shutdown itself until the conversion is completed.
Note: This feature is not implemented up to now because of the lack in the plugin interface.

News

2004-09-11 - New version vdr-console-0.6.0.tgz (46.03 KB) released

2004-07-02 - New version vdr-control-0.0.2a.tgz (26.82 KB) released

2004-06-20 - New version vdr-control-0.0.2.tgz (26.84 KB) released

2004-02-29 - New version vdr-calendar-0.1.4.tgz (19.88 KB) released

2004-01-01 - New version vdr-calendar-0.1.3.tgz (18.35 KB) released

2003-10-15 - New version vdr-calendar-0.1.2.tgz (17.51 KB) released

2003-09-16 - New version vdr-calendar-0.1.1.tgz (15.77 KB) released

2003-09-10 - New plugin vdr-calendar-0.1.0.tgz (15.3 KB) released

2003-08-13 - New plugin vdr-control-0.0.1.tgz preview (15.22 KB) released

2003-07-13 - Now with screenshots of the Console Plugin

2003-07-12 - New design of the site now online

2003-06-01 - Stefan Hülswitt has released a stabile Version of his vdr-1.2.0-AC3overDVB-0.2.0.diff AC3overDVB patch for the brand new VDR 1.2

2003-03-28 - New page FAQ - for frequently asked questions

2003-02-16 - Splitted the Download page into a new Download page and a new History page

2003-01-29 - New version of the AC3overDVB patch by Stefan Hülswitt available

2003-01-17 - New page AC3overDVB with the patch of the same name introduced (sorry, german only)

2003-01-01 - Page counter introduced

2002-12-31 - New version vdr-console-0.5.1.tgz (37.02 KB) released

The Symbols for keyboard and bell are also working when the AIO patch is used.