noannounce.conf(5)

NAME
noannounce.conf – events not to be announced by OSD

DESCRIPTION
This file contains a events not to be announced by OSD when found by the search-timer background thread.

If you press one of the keys 'OK' or 0 to 9 during an event announcement, you will be asked whether you want to disable future announcements permanently (keys 'OK' or 0) or just for the next 1 to 9 days (corresponding to the keys 1 to 9). If you confirm by pressing the key 'OK' again, the setting will be applied.

FORMAT
Every line represents an event not to be announced, comprising the following fields:

1 – Title
    String with the event's title.

2 – Subtitle ("episode")
    String with the event's subtitle, which often refers to the episode of a series.

3 – Channel identifier
    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).

    A value of 0 permanently disables future announcements.

Fields are separated by ':' characters. Thus, 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>.

Revised and adapted to recent plugin features by the current maintainers.

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/>

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
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)