diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
index 10ec00d290..776eba3912 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ fi
 mkdir -p /var/config
 cat "$ADDON_DIR/settings-default.xml" | awk -F\" '{print $2"=\""$4"\""}' | sed '/^=/d' > /var/config/vdr.conf.default
 cat "$ADDON_SETTINGS" | awk -F\" '{print $2"=\""$4"\""}' | sed '/^=/d' > /var/config/vdr.conf
+mkdir -p /var/lib/epgsources
+cp $ADDON_DIR/config/epgsources/epgdata2xmltv/epgdata2xmltv.dist /var/lib/epgsources/epgdata2xmltv
 
 . /var/config/vdr.conf.default
 . /var/config/vdr.conf