diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index dda3933..7367d05 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -454,6 +454,8 @@ VDR Plugin 'femon' Revision History
 - Added a new theme: PearlHD (Thanks to Taipan @ VDRPortal).
 - Added the transponder info window support for IPTV devices.
 
-2012-xx-xx: Version 1.7.18
+2013-01-03: Version 1.7.18
 
+- Updated for vdr-1.7.35.
+- Modified how the receiver is detached.
 - Added Ukrainian translation (Thanks to Yarema aka Knedlyk).
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7862260..e18fb84 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@
 #
 
 # Debugging on/off 
+
 #FEMON_DEBUG = 1
 
 # Strip debug symbols?  Set eg. to /bin/true if not
+
 STRIP = strip
 
 # The official name of this plugin.
 # This name will be used in the '-P...' option of VDR to load the plugin.
 # By default the main source file also carries this name.
-# IMPORTANT: the presence of this macro is important for the Make.config
-# file. So it must be defined, even if it is not used here!
-#
+
 PLUGIN = femon
 
 ### The version number of this plugin (taken from the main source file):
@@ -21,40 +21,43 @@ PLUGIN = femon
 VERSION = $(shell grep 'static const char VERSION\[\] *=' $(PLUGIN).c | awk '{ print $$6 }' | sed -e 's/[";]//g')
 GITTAG  = $(shell git describe --always 2>/dev/null)
 
-### The C++ compiler and options:
-
-CXX      ?= g++
-CXXFLAGS ?= -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -Wextra -Wswitch-default -Wfloat-equal -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wconversion -Wcast-align -Wredundant-decls -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror=overloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses
-LDFLAGS  ?= -Wl,--as-needed
-
 ### The directory environment:
 
-VDRDIR ?= ../../..
-LIBDIR ?= ../../lib
+# Use package data if installed...otherwise assume we're under the VDR source directory:
+PKGCFG = $(if $(VDRDIR),$(shell pkg-config --variable=$(1) $(VDRDIR)/vdr.pc),$(shell pkg-config --variable=$(1) vdr || pkg-config --variable=$(1) ../../../vdr.pc))
+LIBDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(call PKGCFG,libdir)
+LOCDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(call PKGCFG,locdir)
+PLGCFG = $(call PKGCFG,plgcfg)
+#
 TMPDIR ?= /tmp
 
-### Make sure that necessary options are included:
+### The compiler options:
 
--include $(VDRDIR)/Make.global
+export CFLAGS   = $(call PKGCFG,cflags)
+export CXXFLAGS = $(call PKGCFG,cxxflags)
+
+### The version number of VDR's plugin API:
+
+APIVERSION = $(call PKGCFG,apiversion)
 
 ### Allow user defined options to overwrite defaults:
 
--include $(VDRDIR)/Make.config
-
-### The version number of VDR's plugin API (taken from VDR's "config.h"):
-
-APIVERSION = $(shell sed -ne '/define APIVERSION/s/^.*"\(.*\)".*$$/\1/p' $(VDRDIR)/config.h)
+-include $(PLGCFG)
 
 ### The name of the distribution archive:
 
 ARCHIVE = $(PLUGIN)-$(VERSION)
 PACKAGE = vdr-$(ARCHIVE)
 
+### The name of the shared object file:
+
+SOFILE = libvdr-$(PLUGIN).so
+
 ### Includes and Defines (add further entries here):
 
-INCLUDES += -I$(VDRDIR)/include
+INCLUDES +=
 
-DEFINES += -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"$(PLUGIN)"'
+DEFINES += -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"$(PLUGIN)"'
 
 ifdef FEMON_DEBUG
 DEFINES += -DDEBUG
@@ -73,11 +76,11 @@ OBJS = femon.o femonosd.o femonreceiver.o femoncfg.o femontools.o femonmpeg.o fe
 
 ### The main target:
 
-all: libvdr-$(PLUGIN).so i18n
+all: $(SOFILE) i18n
 
 ### Implicit rules:
 
-%.o: %.c Makefile
+%.o: %.c
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $<
 
 ### Dependencies:
@@ -92,36 +95,41 @@ $(DEPFILE): Makefile
 ### Internationalization (I18N):
 
 PODIR     = po
-LOCALEDIR = $(VDRDIR)/locale
 I18Npo    = $(wildcard $(PODIR)/*.po)
-I18Nmsgs  = $(addprefix $(LOCALEDIR)/, $(addsuffix /LC_MESSAGES/vdr-$(PLUGIN).mo, $(notdir $(foreach file, $(I18Npo), $(basename $(file))))))
+I18Nmo    = $(addsuffix .mo, $(foreach file, $(I18Npo), $(basename $(file))))
+I18Nmsgs  = $(addprefix $(LOCDIR)/, $(addsuffix /LC_MESSAGES/vdr-$(PLUGIN).mo, $(notdir $(foreach file, $(I18Npo), $(basename $(file))))))
 I18Npot   = $(PODIR)/$(PLUGIN).pot
 
 %.mo: %.po
 	msgfmt -c -o $@ $<
 
 $(I18Npot): $(wildcard *.c)
-	xgettext -C -cTRANSLATORS --no-wrap --no-location -k -ktr -ktrNOOP --package-name='vdr-$(PLUGIN)' --package-version='$(VERSION)' --msgid-bugs-address='<see README>' -o $@ `ls $^`
+	xgettext -C -cTRANSLATORS --no-wrap --no-location -k -ktr -ktrNOOP --package-name=vdr-$(PLUGIN) --package-version=$(VERSION) --msgid-bugs-address='<see README>' -o $@ `ls $^`
 
 %.po: $(I18Npot)
-	msgmerge -U --no-wrap --no-location --backup=none -q $@ $<
+	msgmerge -U --no-wrap --no-location --backup=none -q -N $@ $<
 	@touch $@
 
-$(I18Nmsgs): $(LOCALEDIR)/%/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-$(PLUGIN).mo: $(PODIR)/%.mo
-	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	cp $< $@
+$(I18Nmsgs): $(LOCDIR)/%/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-$(PLUGIN).mo: $(PODIR)/%.mo
+	install -D -m644 $< $@
 
 .PHONY: i18n
-i18n: $(I18Nmsgs) $(I18Npot)
+i18n: $(I18Nmo) $(I18Npot)
+
+install-i18n: $(I18Nmsgs)
 
 ### Targets:
 
-libvdr-$(PLUGIN).so: $(OBJS)
+$(SOFILE): $(OBJS)
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS) -o $@
 ifndef FEMON_DEBUG
 	@$(STRIP) $@
 endif
-	@cp --remove-destination $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(APIVERSION)
+
+install-lib: $(SOFILE)
+	install -D $^ $(LIBDIR)/$^.$(APIVERSION)
+
+install: install-lib install-i18n
 
 dist: $(I18Npo) clean
 	@-rm -rf $(TMPDIR)/$(ARCHIVE)
@@ -132,7 +140,8 @@ dist: $(I18Npo) clean
 	@echo Distribution package created as $(PACKAGE).tgz
 
 clean:
-	@-rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPFILE) *.so *.tgz core* *~ $(PODIR)/*.mo $(PODIR)/*.pot
+	@-rm -f $(PODIR)/*.mo $(PODIR)/*.pot
+	@-rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPFILE) *.so *.tgz core* *~
 
 cppcheck: $(OBJS)
-	@cppcheck --enable=information,style,unusedFunction -v -f $(OBJS:%.o=%.c)
+	@cppcheck --enable=all -v -f $(OBJS:%.o=%.c)
diff --git a/femon.c b/femon.c
index f140e59..fc32bc0 100644
--- a/femon.c
+++ b/femon.c
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 #include "femonservice.h"
 #include "femontools.h"
 
-#if defined(APIVERSNUM) && APIVERSNUM < 10727
-#error "VDR-1.7.27 API version or greater is required!"
+#if defined(APIVERSNUM) && APIVERSNUM < 10735
+#error "VDR-1.7.35 API version or greater is required!"
 #endif
 
 #ifndef GITVERSION
diff --git a/femonclient/vdr-femonclient-0.0.4.tgz b/femonclient/vdr-femonclient-0.0.4.tgz
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diff --git a/femonclient/vdr-femonclient-0.0.5.tgz b/femonclient/vdr-femonclient-0.0.5.tgz
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diff --git a/femonreceiver.c b/femonreceiver.c
index 40f088d..98377e8 100644
--- a/femonreceiver.c
+++ b/femonreceiver.c
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ cFemonReceiver::~cFemonReceiver(void)
 void cFemonReceiver::Deactivate(void)
 {
   debug("%s()\n", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
+  Detach();
   if (m_Active) {
      m_Active = false;
      m_Sleep.Signal();
      if (Running())
         Cancel(3);
-     Detach();
      }
 }
 
diff --git a/femontools.c b/femontools.c
index 6d1af56..619be3d 100644
--- a/femontools.c
+++ b/femontools.c
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ cDvbDevice *getDvbDevice(cDevice* device)
 
 cString getFrontendInfo(cDvbDevice *device)
 {
-  cString info;
   struct dvb_frontend_info value;
   fe_status_t status;
+  cString info = "";
   uint16_t signal = 0;
   uint16_t snr = 0;
   uint32_t ber = 0;