Vdr binding

Add-ons Bindings
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You can’t install a binding not mentioned as compatible to OH2 with the addons.cfg, so the message is absolutely correct. Don’t touch addons.cfg for manual installation, as it’s … manual…

Did you configure a device in services/vdr.cfg yet? I’m not sure about user/password, as I did not set any user/password in my vdr.
As Volume is a Number, you will have to link to a Number Item or at least to a Dimmer Item.
As Channel is also a Number, you will have to link this to a Number Item (and use setpoint in the sitemap to change the channel).

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Dear all,

is there anyone who’d be interested in a VDR binding for openhab2 or openhab3?

I’ve created a binding for my personal use based on the original openhab 1 binding.
As my time is limited I wouldn’t invest the effort to polish it for public use if there is no interest in it.

Thanks,
Matthias

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I raise my hand! I use the binding to send messages from OH to the TV screen.

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Dear @ruperts, thanks for your feedback.
Here’s a binary for openhab 2.5.x.

A thing needs to be created for each vdr. Either in PaperUI or in things file.
Thing vdr:vdr:srv “VDR” @ “Serverschrank” [ ip=“192.168.0.21”, port=6419, refresh=30 ]

Shutdown, Volume and Channel can be changed. Message and Keycode support.
Current and Next EPG entry are also available by polling.

Thanks for a short feedback if it works.

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Hello Matthias,

works perfectly: I simply stopped OH (I’m on version 2.5), exchanged the jar file (was vdr-1.15.0 before), and started OH. No other changes were necessary. Thank you!

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So far working perfectly. I’m using yavdr0.6 (vdr2.2) and yavdr ansible (vdr2.4).

THANK YOU!

This was the last bit OH1 remaining in my OH2 System, so now I can check to upgrade to OH3…

Of course it would be really nice to see this binding as an official binding :wink:

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Thanks for your Feedback!

I will definitely give it a try to do an official submit.
But I use a library (svdrp4j) that is not available in the common maven repositories and the whole process to get the binding ready for a pull request is quite complicated for the hobby programmer I am.

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Compiled Version for oh3.
Hint for configuration: I changed configuration property name from “ip” to “host”

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Repository containing code for current version:
https://github.com/MatthiasKlocke/openhab-addons
Enhancement request:
[vdr] New binding: replacement for openhab1 vdr binding

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There seems to be a problem, at least with the current version for openHAB 3.4.2

See

and

for reference.

When a thing with vdr addon is active, there is an error Message in the log each time the Items list is loaded (e.g. in VS Code openhAB plugin):

[ERROR] [al.ChannelCommandDescriptionProvider] - Dynamic command description matches original command description. DynamicCommandDescriptionProvider implementations must never return the original command description. class org.openhab.core.internal.types.CommandDescriptionImpl has to be fixed.

If stopping the bundle, the errors are gone immediately.