timersdone.conf(5)

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version 2.4.6 · 8 versions
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🎀 timersdone.conf 💅

okay bestie so this is a page from EPGSearch Version 2.4.6 — yes, the plugin, we love her — and it's all about a little config file called timersdone.conf. buckle up, it's actually cute and useful, i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

timersdone.conf – the list of pending timers that got created by search timers 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this file is basically holding the pending timers that search timers have already created. think of it as the receipts folder, lowkey iconic 📁✨

here's the tea: if the setup option 'Recreate timers after deletion' is set to 'no', EPGSearch peeks at this list to check whether a timer has already been created — and if it has, she does not create it again. no duplicates, no chaos, we stan 💅

and the second the associated recording has actually taken place, the timer gets automatically removed from this list. self-cleaning, main character energy fr fr 🧚✨

🌈 FORMAT 🌈

every single line = one pending timer, and it's made of these fields, in this order:

  1. Channel identifier — a string with the timer's channel identifier in VDR notation (e.g. 'S19.2E-1-1019-10301').
  2. Start time — the timer's start date and time in Epoch encoding (i.e., seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC).
  3. Stop time — the timer's stop date and time in Epoch encoding (i.e., seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC).
  4. Search-timer identifier — an integer with the unique identifier of the search timer that created the timer.
  5. Title — a string with the event's title.
  6. Subtitle — a string with the event's subtitle.
  7. Details — a string containing the date and start time of the timer, plus the name (or alternatively, the number) of the channel.
⚠️ heads up bestie: fields are separated by ':' characters. so a ':' inside a title, subtitle, or details gets translated into a '|' character. the colon is taken, she's the delimiter now 😭

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

S19.2E-1-1011-11130:1757678880:1757682000:47:The Rookie:The Checklist:Fr. 12.09. 14|08 - zdf_neo HD

look at her go 😌✨

👑 AUTHORS (man pages) 👑

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

revised and adapted to recent plugin features by the current maintainers. teamwork makes the dream work 🫶

💜 PROJECT SITE 💜

the plugin is maintained as a GitHub project:

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

go give her a star, she deserves it ⭐

🔥 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/>

found a bug? tell the girls. we fix it together 💅🐛

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.

🫶 yes she's GPL, yes she said what she said, the whole no-warranty paragraph is real — don't come for her if it breaks, that's the deal bestie 😭

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

epgsearch(1)

go read that one next, iykyk 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil cutie was rendered by perl v5.40.1 on 2026-04-19 — shoutout to the toolchain, slay 💅✨🌸

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