HOw to add a vdr - plugin to LE build?

    Update: i am currently rebuilding fresh checkout of branch 9.0-vdr-epg - will then check again nitpicks like epg.dat and report back.

    CvH: have you committed everything you did in that branch already?

    Ok - this here (in vdr.start):

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    ...
SVDRP_PORT=0
# epgsearch needs svdrp
if [ "$ENABLE_EPGSEARCH" == "true" ] ; then
SVDRP_PORT=6419
fi
...

    is wrong -because the SVDRP - Port is only configured if epgsearch is enabled - this needs to be changed - VDR should be reacheable via svdrp at any time - not only if epgsearch is enabled.

    If the LE-Team does not want that - at least SVDRP needs also to be enabled for EPG2VDR - Plugin

    I think the whole part is obsolete and should look like this:

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    SVDRP_PORT=6419

    and i think that this is wrong too:

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    eval LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE="$VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE" exec vdr.bin $VDR_ARG

    Why shall VDR always be startet in en_US - Locale if the system might be setup to use another locale?

    This needs to be added to packages/addons/services/vdr-addon/package.mk:

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    mkdir -p $ADDON_BUILD/$PKG_ADDON_ID/config/plugins/epg2vdr
cp -PR $VDR_PLUGIN_EPG2VDR_DIR/configs/epg.dat $ADDON_BUILD/$PKG_ADDON_ID/config/plugins/epg2vdr

    Question:

    i backportet to 8.2.3 (my other LE's run that version and they all use a common mysql - Library.

    create_addon does not work under 8.x - how can the addon be assembled?

    Nope:

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    lutz@libreelec:/nas/develop/LibreElec-8$ PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64  ./scripts/create_addon vdr-addon
BUILD    vdr-addon (target)
Executing (target): make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

    Maybe try /scripts/create_addon service.multimedia.vdr-addon. I do not remember currently how I created it. I'm currently rebuilding the whole tree to try again, but this will take about three hours or so...

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    PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 scripts/create_addon vdr-addon

    creates the addon, but the current one in my git is only for LE9 as we had there changes that are not at LE8.2.

    I can't build for 8.2 anymore (my OS is too new) so I won't do a backport.

    If you can show me an changed vdr.start script that it works I could append the git with that, current changes were pushed to git incl the epg.dat

    this is what happens:

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    lutz@libreelec:/nas/develop/LibreElec-8$ PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 scripts/create_addon vdr-addon
BUILD    vdr-addon (target)
Executing (target): make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
lutz@libreelec:/nas/develop/LibreElec-8$

    Just did a test build of LE 8 with vdr patched to 2.3.8 and it was successful running these commands:

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    ./scripts/build vdr-addon
./scripts/create_addon vdr-addon
l target/addons/8.2/Generic/x86_64/service.multimedia.vdr-addon/
total 4428
drwxrwxr-x 2 linux linux    4096 Mar 18 15:12 resources/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 linux linux 4529052 Mar 18 15:12 service.multimedia.vdr-addon-8.2.105.zip

    Maybe you could check for differences between your tree and mine:

    Create a test branch:

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    git checkout libreelec-8.2
git branch test
git checkout test

    Get the diff from here and apply:

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    patch -p1 < /tmp/vdr-2.3.8-le-8.2

    Then check the differences:

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    git diff -r <your-branch> -r test

    Maybe you unintentionally changed something else during your backporting.