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**ksooo** · 2016-09-04, 16:53

nvm, had not seen that you posted in the vdr vnsi subforum. This add-on should support recurring epg based timers, afaik. No idea why this does not work for you. But I do know almost nothing about vdr vnsi, thus can't help.

**ksooo** · 2016-09-04, 16:58

But I'm interested why you don't get an error box when selecting add timer in the epg window. Can you provide a Kodi log?

Spirou · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-04, 20:50 by Spirou.)

First time I'm uploading a log. Hope I made no mistake.
I installed Kodi Logfile Uploader addon. rebootet and selected "Add Timer" in the EPG grid.

Kodi Logfile Uploader says the URL is: https://paste.ubuntu.com/23133500/

**ksooo** · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-04, 22:07 by ksooo.)

The log indicates that the add-on does not supply any timer type for epg based recurring timers. At least it seems so at the first glance.

Although this does not solve your problem, your feedback helped a lot. I will add an error box for this case, so the user at least knows that something is wrong. This is way better than just doing nothing, like it is now.

**ksooo** · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-05, 12:01 by ksooo.)

Submitted https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.vdr.vnsi/pull/89 for pvr.vdr.vnsi pvr addon to fix the not appearing "EPG search timer".

**ksooo** · 2016-09-05, 12:26

Submitted https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10404 for adding a meaningful error box in case no timer could be added because addon actually does not supporting a suitable timer type.

Spirou · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-05, 15:15 by Spirou.)

ksooo, thank you for looking into it. Any clue why this occurs?
I am still not quite clear about the depedencies, so besides from upgrading the OS and kodi I kept my vdr 2.2.0 backend as this seems the latest version that is supported by official ubunto repo.
Maybe I need to upgrade to vdr 2.3.1?

**ksooo** · 2016-09-05, 14:30

(2016-09-05, 14:24)Spirou Wrote: ksooo, thank for looking into it. Any clue why this occurs?

Partly.

For one it's a small bug in the current vdr vnsi pvr add-on. I have submitted a bug fix and once it got merged to the add-on code base this part of the problem should be fixed once you install the fixed add-on version.

OTOH, you will for sure need to install the "right" vdr version. But as I'm not a vdr user I cannot help here.

**ksooo** · 2016-09-05, 14:34

Reading back in this thread, there is clearly written that you need vdr 2.3.x

FernetMenta · 2016-09-05, 17:50

This is correct. There are quite a few changes in VDR's API from 2.2. to 2.3. and I don't implement new features on the old API. That would result in a nightmare of ifdefs in the code.

Spirou · 2016-09-06, 02:22

Ok, so I started compiling vdr 2.3.1 myself as there don't seem to be many repos out there that already have vdr 2.3.1

However, i am still reluctant to use it since it seems to break with some of my favorite plugins, e.g. streamdev or live which I'd use to schedule recordings when travelling,

I think many users would feel more comfortable using a vdr release that can be installed from a trusted repo. I used to install from yavdr repo but htey still only support vdr 2.2.0. Even tvdr.de - which I believed to be the home of vdr - mentions vdr 2.2.0 as the latest release.

mule1 · 2016-09-06, 07:32

For streamdev you will find patches on the vdr forum. For live sadly not. Live is the reason why i have not updated yet to 2.3.1.

Spirou · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-11, 09:14 by Spirou.)

So, eventually I managed to upgrade from vdr 2.2.0 to 2.3.1 keeping most of my setup intact. Quite a piece of work since most of the documents on the web regarding vdr are pretty outdated and none of the well known repositories seems to provide a ppa for vdr 2.3.1. Thus, it requires some tweaks to get vdr 2.3.1 running as smoothly as vdr 2.2.0 did.

What I found: From the EPG grid I still get no response when choosing an epg item/title and selecting "add timer" from the context menu. I would have expected that this would get directly into a form where the name of title would be preselected for the recording.
In the timer window I can select "add timer" and this gives me two new options for type: Search EPG, and VPS.
When choosing "Search EPG" I am not sure if this will record any matching titel in a recurring fashion or if this will make VDR record only at its first occurence.

Furthermore, I noticed, that when a recording has finished KODI will display a notification "deleting timer xy" or similar. However, the name of the timer is not that of the completed timer but that of another, still active timer. I can confirm though, that the active timer is not removed from the timer list.

Two more points: When I wanted to stop a recording I used to go back to EPG grid, selected the title and then chose "Stop ecording" from the context menu. This isn't available any more. I now have to stop the recording from the main timer window.
Second, when trying to change VNSI server settings under client specific settings in TV section I noticed that VNSI server is using a different chraracter set than VDR and does not display sepcial characters correctly (while VDR OSD does).

**ksooo** · 2016-09-11, 10:16

(2016-09-11, 00:38)Spirou Wrote: From the EPG grid I still get no response when choosing an epg item/title and selecting "add timer" from the context menu.

What version of pvr.vdr.vnsi are you using? You need at least 2.6.5

Spirou · 2016-09-11, 14:04

Just checked. I have 2.6.4. I am using Jarvis beta 1 form the unstable ppa. How can I get the updated addon?