noannounce.conf(5)

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🎀 noannounce.conf(5) — the vibe check 💅

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for noannounce.conf, and yes it's part of EPGSearch Version 2.4.6 — we'll get to the whole "who made it / what license" thing at the end, don't worry 💖

✨ NAME ✨

noannounce.conf – the list of events that OSD is not gonna announce 🙅‍♀️

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this file is literally just a collection of events that OSD should not announce when the search-timer background thread finds them. That's it. That's the whole gig. 🫶

And here's the part where you come in: if you press one of the keys 'OK' or 0 to 9 during an event announcement, the plugin's gonna ask you whether you want to disable future announcements — either permanently (that's keys 'OK' or 0) or just for the next 1 to 9 days (that's the keys 1 to 9, matching however many days you want). Confirm by pressing the key 'OK' again, and boom — the setting gets applied. ✨

🦋 FORMAT 🦋

Every single line = one event that won't be announced, and each line is made of these fields, in this order:

  1. Title — a string with the event's title.
  2. Subtitle ("episode") — a string with the event's subtitle, which often refers to the episode of a series. iykyk 📺
  3. Channel identifier — a string with the event's channel identifier in VDR notation (e.g., 'S19.2E-1-1019-10301').
  4. Start time — the event's start date and time in Epoch encoding (i.e., seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). ⏰
  5. Time of next announcement — the date and time of the event's next announcement in Epoch encoding (i.e., seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC).
Heads up bestie: a value of 0 for that last field permanently disables future announcements. Like, forever-forever. 💀

Fields are separated by ':' characters. So — and this is the iconic part — a ':' character in title or subtitle will be translated to a '|' character. 🎀

👑 AUTHORS (man pages) 👑

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

Then revised and adapted to recent plugin features by the current maintainers. Team effort, slay. 🫶

🌈 PROJECT SITE 🌈

The plugin is maintained as a GitHub project:

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

🔥 REPORTING BUGS 🔥

Got issues? Got feature ideas? Both go through the project's bug tracker, no cap:

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

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 ⭐

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 this one was rendered with perl v5.40.1 and dated 2026-04-19 — iconic of it, honestly. go off, noannounce.conf(5) 👑✨

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