Proxy for the VDR

The vdrproxy is a little tool which offers asynchronous readonly access to VDR datafiles. Advantage: you'll get access to VDR data without having to expose the VDR's port - so vdrproxy increases security.

Change request to VDR data is routed to the VDR, the proxy does not support any direct changes by intention. This is an security aspect too.

The 3. advantage and the reason, why the proxy is a separate tool instead of a plugin for vdr, is the possibility to start the proxy with a different nice setting. That will increase the VDRs part of CPU-time, so the proxy will relax system load, apart from real VDR.

Installer Download - as all other stuff from the project pages at sourceforge.

Installation:

has been simplified

The installer asks the configuration items and generates a ready-to-use proxy. The installation does not create any system dependencies, so in case of changes, just reexecute the installer and you're done.

Use /etc/init.d/vdrproxy to manage the proxy on current linux systems.

On LinVDR-systems, the proxy may be integrated as follows. Add the line

if [ "x$START_VDRPROXY" = "xyes" ]; then
   execute nice -n 19 vdrproxy.pl
fi