VDRPBD(1)

NAME
vdrpbd - A daemon to handle ACPI power button event on VDR systems

SYNOPSIS
vdrpbd [ -f ]

DESCRIPTION
vdrpbd is a ACPI power button handling daemon, which has been created with a VDR-based HTPC in mind. In such setups, the power button on the front should be forwarded as event to the VDR software and no hard shutdown should be triggered. This is where vdrpbd comes in. It listens on the relevant input device and forwards button presses to the VDR process.

The usual downside of this is, that a hanging VDR process makes the power button useless for shutting down the system cleanly. You either have to do a shutdown via remote access or, if available, via terminal on your TV. To address this issue, vdrpbd has a "emergency reboot" feature. If you press the power button four times within three seconds, then the daemon triggers a system reboot to bring your system back to a working state in a clean, easy and fast way.

KODI SUPPORT
vdrpbd supports Kodi as frontend for Linux HTPC systems. This doesn't require you to use VDR as PVR backend or any PVR backend at all. To have the power button sent to Kodi, just set TARGET in vdrpbd.conf to kodi.

  Command Switches
Switches include:

-f  Run vdrpbd in the foreground. Default is to run in the background as "daemon".

--help
    display this help and exit

--version
    output version information and exit

SEE ALSO
vdrpbd.conf(5)