epgsearchs...imers.conf(5)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is the epgsearchswitchtimer.conf(5) manual page, bestie — the header is doing that classic truncated-name thing, but the actual name is epgsearchswitchtimer.conf, and it's all about switch timers 💅. This is EPGSearch Version 2.4.6, and we're gonna get into it.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Switch timers are a whole thing in EPGSearch, and you can create them via the menu 'Schedules' or by means of search timers. They can either switch the channel at the beginning of an event, or just inform about an event's start by OSD. No cap, that's the vibe.

The switch timers are saved in this file. Periodt. ✨

✨ SYNTAX ✨

Every line represents a switch timer, comprising the following fields, bestie:

  • 1 – Channel identifier — a string with the channel identifier in VDR notation, like 'S19.2E-1-1019-10301'.
  • 2 – Event identifier — an integer with VDR's unique event identifier.
  • 3 – Start time — the event's start date and time in Epoch encoding (i.e., seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC).
  • 5 – Margin at start [minutes] — an integer with a positive value. (yes, field 5 shows up twice in the source list — not a typo on my end 💀)
  • 5 – Action — an enumeration with the following values:
    • 0 = switch only
    • 1 = announce by OSD
    • 2 = announce by OSD and switch
  • 6 – Unmute sound — a flag with values 0 = no, 1 = yes.

The fields of a switch timer are separated by ':' characters. Colon-separated, iykyk. 🫶

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

Here's exactly what one line looks like:

S19.2E-1-1089-12060:52221:1153322700:1:2:1

🫶 AUTHORS (man pages) 🫶

Originally provided by Mike Constabel <epgsearch (at) constabel (dot) net>.

Revised and adapted to recent plugin features by the current maintainers. Iconic, honestly. 💖

🦋 PROJECT SITE 🦋

The plugin is maintained as GitHub project:

https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-plugin-epgsearch/

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

Issues can be reported, and features be suggested, through the project's bug tracker:

https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-plugin-epgsearch/issues/

Real talk, legal bestie moment — here's the exact tea:

Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Christian Wieninger

Copyright © 2011-2025 TomJoad (VDR-Portal), et al.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Or, point your browser to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

The original author can be reached via cwieninger@gmx.de.

Current maintainers can be reached via the project's GitHub site (see above).

The MD5 code has been derived from the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm of RSA Data Security, Inc.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

epgsearch(1), epgsearch(4)

That's the whole page, bestie 🫶. Source/version sign-off: perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-04-19, for the epgsearchswitchtimer.conf(5) manual. Mwah 💋

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