This is a "patch" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

* Description:
Apply this patch to VDR if you want to see remote timers in skin LCARS' main
menu view.

* Installation
Change into the VDR source directory, then issue
  patch -p0 < path/to/vdr-skinlcars.patch
and recompile.

--- skinlcars.c.orig	2012-06-03 12:17:00.000000000 +0200
+++ skinlcars.c	2012-06-22 22:32:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -30,6 +30,19 @@
 #include "themes.h"
 #include "videodir.h"
 
+// BEGIN remotetimers_skinlcars.patch
+#include "plugin.h"
+#include "PLUGINS/src/remotetimers/remotetimers.h"
+
+namespace PluginRemoteTimers {
+   // copy of timers.c CompareTimers
+   static int CompareTimers(const void *a, const void *b)
+   {
+     return (*(const cTimer **)a)->Compare(**(const cTimer **)b);
+   }
+}
+// END remotetimers_skinlcars.patch
+
 #include "symbols/arrowdown.xpm"
 #include "symbols/arrowup.xpm"
 #include "symbols/audio.xpm"
@@ -1158,12 +1171,25 @@
 
 void cSkinLCARSDisplayMenu::DrawTimers(void)
 {
-  if (Timers.Modified(lastTimersState)) {
+  static cPlugin* pRemoteTimers = cPluginManager::CallFirstService("RemoteTimers::RefreshTimers-v1.0", NULL);
+  cString errorMsg;
+  bool drawRemoteTimers = false;
+  if (pRemoteTimers && initial) {
+     drawRemoteTimers = pRemoteTimers->Service("RemoteTimers::RefreshTimers-v1.0", &errorMsg);
+     }
+
+  if (Timers.Modified(lastTimersState) || drawRemoteTimers) {
      deviceRecording.Clear();
      const cFont *font = cFont::GetFont(fontOsd);
      osd->DrawRectangle(xs00, ys04, xs04 - 1, ys05 - 1, Theme.Color(clrBackground));
      osd->DrawRectangle(xs07, ys04, xs13 - 1, ys05 - 1, Theme.Color(clrBackground));
      cSortedTimers SortedTimers;
+     if (drawRemoteTimers) {
+        cTimer* timer = NULL;
+        while (pRemoteTimers->Service("RemoteTimers::ForEach-v1.0", &timer) && timer != NULL)
+              SortedTimers.Append(timer);
+        SortedTimers.Sort(PluginRemoteTimers::CompareTimers);
+        }
      cVector<int> FreeDeviceSlots;
      int NumDevices = 0;
      int y = ys04;
@@ -1175,7 +1201,7 @@
                if (y + lineHeight > ys05)
                   break;
                if (const cTimer *Timer = SortedTimers[i]) {
-                  if (Timer->Recording()) {
+                  if (Timer->Recording() && cRecordControls::GetRecordControl(Timer)) {
                      if (cRecordControl *RecordControl = cRecordControls::GetRecordControl(Timer)) {
                         if (!Device || Device == RecordControl->Device()) {
                            DrawTimer(Timer, y, NumTimers > 0);
@@ -1233,6 +1259,8 @@
          }
      osd->DrawText(xs02, ys00, itoa(NumTimers), Theme.Color(clrMenuFrameFg), frameColor, font, xs03 - xs02, ys01 - ys00, taBottom | taLeft | taBorder);
      osd->DrawText(xs08, ys00, itoa(NumDevices), Theme.Color(clrMenuFrameFg), frameColor, font, xs09 - xs08, ys01 - ys00, taBottom | taRight | taBorder);
+     if (*errorMsg)
+        SetMessage(mtError, *errorMsg);
      lastSignalDisplay = 0;
      initial = true; // forces redrawing of devices
      }