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Offline Lanzi

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[EN] I want to reactivate VDR on my laptop
« on: 2016/12/04, 13:24:23 »
Since systemd became the standard I wasn't having a VDR on my laptop. Since a have a little bi of free time, I want to change that. A simple install does not start the VDR.

Is there any "how to"? out there?


What I tried:
1. In the past I needed to enable the vdr start in /etc/default:

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# Change to 1 to enable vdr's init-script
ENABLED=1
is this still necessay?


2. In the cdr-portal I found a start-script (i do not need lirc, but I tried anyway)
http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board8-vdr-grundlagen/106802-systemd-vdr-service/

But even with the script i get:

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root@server:# systemctl status vdr.service

● vdr.service - Video Disk Recorder

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vdr.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-12-04 11:45:54 CET; 35min ago
 Main PID: 913 (code=exited, status=2)

Dez 04 11:45:54 server vdr[913]: [913] ERROR: invalid primary device number: 1
Dez 04 11:45:54 server vdr[913]: [1357] epg data reader thread ended (pid=913, tid=1357)
Dez 04 11:45:54 server vdr[913]: [1356] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=913, tid=1356)
Dez 04 11:45:54 server vdr[913]: [1355] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=913, tid=1355)
Dez 04 11:45:54 server vdr[913]: [913] max. latency time 0 seconds
Dez 04 11:45:54 server vdr[913]: [913] exiting, exit code 2
Dez 04 11:45:54 server systemd[1]: vdr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Dez 04 11:45:54 server systemd[1]: Failed to start Video Disk Recorder.
Dez 04 11:45:54 server systemd[1]: vdr.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dez 04 11:45:54 server systemd[1]: vdr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
root@server:#

Thanks for helping!



Offline dieres

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Re: I want to reactivate VDR on my laptop
« Reply #1 on: 2016/12/04, 15:51:54 »
I have installed it on my server, debian stable with openmediavault. and it just works. Can't remeber whether I installed the stable debian packages or from e-tobi.net.
ls -l /dev/dvb* shows the adapter ?  the video directory is there ? /var/lib/video link to /var/lib/video.00 ?
/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf exists ?


Offline Lanzi

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Re: I want to reactivate VDR on my laptop
« Reply #2 on: 2016/12/06, 18:11:16 »
Thanks for the answer.

- On my laptop I do not have always a device, since I only would like to use it to watch my VDR-Videos. If I am abroad I use a WinTV Stick. VDR works without devices (if that has not changed in the past years) 

- I do have a /var/lib/video.00and a /var/lib/video... do the need to be linked? (Owner is vdr). 
I also checked /lib/systemd/system/vdr. The file is in place. 


So, If I understand correctly, I have to start now with
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systemctl enable vdr

but nothing happens

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# systemctl status vdr
● vdr.service - Video Disk Recorder
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vdr.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-12-04 14:10:32 CET; 2 days ago
 Main PID: 882 (code=exited, status=2)

Dez 04 14:10:32 server vdr[882]: [882] ERROR: invalid primary device number: 1
Dez 04 14:10:32 server vdr[882]: [1020] epg data reader thread ended (pid=882, tid=1020)
Dez 04 14:10:32 server vdr[882]: [1019] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=882, tid=1019)
Dez 04 14:10:32 server vdr[882]: [1018] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=882, tid=1018)
Dez 04 14:10:32 server vdr[882]: [882] max. latency time 0 seconds
Dez 04 14:10:32 server vdr[882]: [882] exiting, exit code 2
Dez 04 14:10:32 server systemd[1]: vdr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Dez 04 14:10:32 server systemd[1]: Failed to start Video Disk Recorder.
Dez 04 14:10:32 server systemd[1]: vdr.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dez 04 14:10:32 server systemd[1]: vdr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.