diff --git a/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/package.mk b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/package.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e5b7d7a67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/package.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  OpenELEC 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.
+#
+#  OpenELEC 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 OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="vdr-plugin-restfulapi"
+PKG_VERSION="20150114180413unstable"
+PKG_REV="0yavdr0~trusty"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="https://launchpad.net/~yavdr"
+PKG_URL="https://launchpad.net/~yavdr/+archive/ubuntu/unstable-vdr/+files/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}-${PKG_REV}.tar.gz"
+PKG_SOURCE_DIR="${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain vdr cxxtools vdr-wirbelscan"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="vdr-plugin-restfulapi: the restful API for the VDR/"
+PKG_LONGDESC="vdr-plugin-restfulapi allows to access many internals of the VDR via a restful API"
+
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
+
+pre_configure_target() {
+  export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
+  export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -fPIC -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
+  export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fPIC -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
+}
+
+pre_make_target() {
+  # dont build parallel
+  MAKEFLAGS=-j1
+}
+
+pre_build_target() {                                                                                                                                                                                               
+  WIRBELSCAN_DIR=$(get_build_dir vdr-wirbelscan)
+  ln -sf $WIRBELSCAN_DIR/wirbelscan_services.h $PKG_BUILD
+}
+
+make_target() {
+  VDR_DIR=$(get_build_dir vdr)
+  make VDRDIR=$VDR_DIR \
+    LIBDIR="." \
+    LOCALEDIR="./locale"
+}
+
+makeinstall_target() {
+  : # installation not needed, done by create-addon script
+}
diff --git a/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/patches/vdr-plugin-restfulapi-01_makefile.patch b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/patches/vdr-plugin-restfulapi-01_makefile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f29be2cf1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/multimedia/vdr-plugin-restfulapi/patches/vdr-plugin-restfulapi-01_makefile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+diff -Nur vdr-plugin-restfulapi.orig/Makefile vdr-plugin-restfulapi/Makefile
+--- vdr-plugin-restfulapi.orig/Makefile	2015-01-14 17:56:59.017916074 +0100
++++ vdr-plugin-restfulapi/Makefile	2015-01-14 23:04:43.361230469 +0100
+@@ -16,21 +16,16 @@
+ ### The directory environment:
+ 
+ # 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 = $(call PKGCFG,libdir)
+-LOCDIR = $(call PKGCFG,locdir)
+-PLGCFG = $(call PKGCFG,plgcfg)
+ #
+ TMPDIR ?= /tmp
+ 
+ ### The compiler options:
+ 
+-export CFLAGS   = $(call PKGCFG,cflags)
+-export CXXFLAGS = $(call PKGCFG,cxxflags)
++include $(VDRDIR)/Make.global
+ 
+ ### The version number of VDR's plugin API:
+ 
+-APIVERSION = $(call PKGCFG,apiversion)
++APIVERSION = $(shell sed -ne '/define APIVERSION/s/^.*"\(.*\)".*$$/\1/p' $(VDRDIR)/config.h)
+ 
+ ### Allow user defined options to overwrite defaults:
+ 
+@@ -47,11 +42,11 @@
+ 
+ ### Includes and Defines (add further entries here):
+ 
+-INCLUDES += -I/usr/include/vdr/plugins/wirbelscan
++INCLUDES += -I$(VDRDIR)/include
+ 
+ DEFINES += -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"$(PLUGIN)"'
+ 
+-LIBS    += $(shell cxxtools-config --libs) -lcxxtools-http
++LIBS    += -lcxxtools-http $(shell cxxtools-config --libs)
+ CONFDIR  = $(call PKGCFG,configdir)
+ PLGCONFDIR = $(CONFDIR)/plugins/$(PLUGIN)
+ 
+@@ -108,6 +103,7 @@
+ 
+ $(SOFILE): $(OBJS)
+ 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS) -o $@ -Wl,--no-whole-archive $(LIBS)
++	@cp --remove-destination $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(APIVERSION)
+ 
+ install-lib: $(SOFILE)
+ 	install -D $^ $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/$^.$(APIVERSION)