diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/vdr-plugins/vdr-plugin-live/patches/vdr-plugin-live-gcc7.patch b/packages/addons/addon-depends/vdr-plugins/vdr-plugin-live/patches/vdr-plugin-live-gcc7.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ec265a58e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/vdr-plugins/vdr-plugin-live/patches/vdr-plugin-live-gcc7.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+part of patch from Jasmin Jessich <jasmin@anw.at>
+https://github.com/jasmin-j/vdr-plugin-live/commit/b86560030911208be738163ecd0e48790c9317a1
+
+--- a/pages/multischedule.ecpp	2017-05-11 18:13:21.359696377 +0200
++++ b/pages/multischedule.ecpp	2017-05-11 18:15:13.777869558 +0200
+@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
+           cChannel* Channel = Channels.GetByNumber( chan );
+           if ( ! Channel )
+             continue;
+-          if ( Channel->GroupSep() || Channel->Name() == '\0' )
++          if ( Channel->GroupSep() || !Channel->Name() || !*Channel->Name() )
+             continue;
+           channel_names[ j ] = Channel->Name();
+           channel_IDs[ j ] = Channel->GetChannelID();