diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/changelog.txt b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/changelog.txt
index 94d2624b81..027b32aa58 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/changelog.txt
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/changelog.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 - cleanup epgsources handling
 - * support for multiple epgsources
 - * support user defined epgsources
+- fixed epgsearch plugin not working without streamdev-server
 
 3.0.6
 - fix startup error in vnsiserver / 32bit
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 01a3b9e3da..35e265ea8f 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
@@ -62,7 +62,15 @@ done
 . /var/config/vdr.conf.default
 . /var/config/vdr.conf
 
-VDR_ARG="-g /tmp --no-kbd --log=3 --port=0"
+VDR_ARG="-g /tmp --no-kbd --log=3"
+SVDRP_PORT=0
+
+# epgsearch needs svdrp
+if [ "$ENABLE_EPGSEARCH" == "true" ] ; then
+  SVDRP_PORT=6419
+fi
+VDR_ARG="$VDR_ARG --port=$SVDRP_PORT"
+
 VDR_ARG="$VDR_ARG --config=$ADDON_CONFIG_DIR"
 VDR_ARG="$VDR_ARG --resdir=$ADDON_DIR/res"
 VDR_ARG="$VDR_ARG --cachedir=$ADDON_CACHE_DIR"
@@ -125,7 +133,7 @@ fi
     sed -i -e '/^epgsearch.SVDRPPort.*$/d' $ADDON_CONFIG_DIR/setup.conf
   fi
   cat >>$ADDON_CONFIG_DIR/setup.conf << MYDATA
-epgsearch.SVDRPPort = 2004
+epgsearch.SVDRPPort = 6419
 MYDATA
 
 )