[mythtv-users] MythAuto?

[Kent Williams]

I'm looking to do something vaguely similar, however not in the car. We've got a few houses connected via wireless. At one place there will be a master backend with a couple of tuners, to this there will be one or two frontends directly connected via ethernet.

 

Now the interesting part which is related somewhat to what you are looking into ...

There will be a few fontends that are connected via the wireless. From these clients live TV isn't really important. We are more after sharing recordings, which will all be recorded back at the main backend, however, all frontends will be able schedule new recordings. So far this is all currently possible. However, as viewing recordings over the wireless won't be possible in realtime, I'm looking for some way to buffer or precopy recordings of interest. I envisage something like the wireless frontend being able to browse recordings on the master backend and select those which they'd like to view. These would then be copied locally, ready to be watched. Further to this, each wireless frontend could nominate favourite shows that will automatically be copied from the master backend one the show is over, ready for immediate viewing, all in a way that is usable by a non tech user. I don't want to mirror the entire backend as this would require substantial disk space at each location and secondly it is a waste of bandwidth. We currently have a linux box doing routing for the wireless network at each location so achieving this setup with some sort of slave backend isn't a problem.

 

I welcome any thought or comments on this setup.

 

Cheers,
Kent
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Aaron Stewart [mailto:acs at hourglassone.com] 
Sent: Tue 16/09/2003 9:04 AM 
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
Cc: 
Subject: [mythtv-users] MythAuto?



	Hey gang..
	
	I've been working on setting up a front-end in my car using a small
	widescreen lcd screen and either a cappucino PC or a via epia board,
	along with a touchscreen for user control.
	
	It would essentially be front-end and back end sans the recording aspect
	(shows would be pushed to the machine via 802.11g when the car is
	parked), but probably include some module for doing things like
	interacting with the car's ECU and getting data back for doing engine
	management and control.
	
	There are three questions I have:
	
	1. anybody else working on something similar?
	2. Anybody interested in something like this?
	3. currently, myth uses keyboard-only for control, but I'm thinking that
	a touchscreen would send off mouse coordinates (haven't dug that far
	yet).. Any chance of getting this capability into the build for those of
	us who do need to control myth via mouse?
	
	Cheers,
	Aaron
	
	

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