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TriffiD
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Under Windows, yes - works astonishingly good. I timed the wakeups so that there is enough time for the system to automatically reboot, even if there is a bluescreen. And I wrote a small program that checks the state of the DVB-Device before starting the recording software and re-initializes it if necessary. All in all that does the trick. What I dislike is that this works only with standby and not with hibernation-mode which I would have preferred. If the system goes to hell when waking up from hibernation, the reboot stops at a boot-menu, asking whether to delete hibernationfile or not. Did not find a way to keep it from doing so.

I got myself a book about Linux and I think I know how to do it under Linux, too. I just learned that one can dump the datastream from the device directly, 'cat-ing' it to a file from /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0. All I have to do is to tune in the right channel beforehand with the dvb-tool szap.
Small script for those two steps and a cronjob on top of it and I would be fine under stable Linux also. But I still don't know how to handle my DISEqC-Switch. It seems to be trickier than I thought. The problem to power the PC up is even more nasty. Under Windows you can do that simply by planning a task. Not so with Linux. There is a tool that manipulates the NVRAM of the BIOS to use the wakeup-event. That would be perfect - but somehow it doesn't work with my mainboard. I always get error-messages, although I know exactly the addresses to manipulate. A workaround would be to set the wakeup-event to 00:00:00 hours and first day of the month and set the system time to a (wrong but fitting) value that makes the PC wake up in time for the next recording. This value could be calculated on system shutdown and corrected at boot. But... hmpf. Waking up a system at a given time is a reasonable request and should be easy nowadays. I don't fancy having the system up and running 24/7 at 50 or 60 W.
I will install a Debian on an external Harddisk and use it for testing. But the hole thing is getting on my nerves already.

OMG! Did anybody read this hole posting? I do far to much tittle-tattling.

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Bionic Commando wrote:
ööööö... too much text, I can't read it...

yes or no?

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Yesno.

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Bio u damn retard stop pestering mr. sherlock holmes!
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Elementary, my dear Kirby.

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I thought linux was Charlie Browns Pal Exclamation

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was he? Rolling Eyes

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TriffiD wrote:
OMG! Did anybody read this hole posting? I do far to much tittle-tattling.


ooops I did Embarassed

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