I have been using VDR – the Video Disk Recorder – on my own Linux host for over 20 years. It has been the primary way of consuming broadcast TV content in our household since 2004. Until now my VDR setup has only been capable of using DVB-C channels in SD, due to the non-HD-capable […]
My trusty old VDR box started behaving erratically: sometimes the IR remote didn’t do anything. Rebooting the whole box usually helped, but not always. Eventually I was able to narrow the problem down: for some reason the LIRC serial driver did not correctly detect the IR receiver in the serial port at the boot. I […]