[mythtv-users] Setting up slave backend system

[Kevin Kuphal]

Greg Woods wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:04 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>Greg Woods wrote:
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>>>>I expected to see the SBE capture cards defined in the MBE system in the
>>>>status page or in the setup on the MBE.
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>>>This means you have to run mythtv-setup on the machine that has the card
>>>to set up capture cards. 
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>>Why is this confusing?  
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>I too expected to see all the available capture cards in mythtv-setup no
>matter which host I ran it on. Now that I understand more about how it
>works (that is, some things are stored in the central database and some
>are stored locally), it's not so confusing any more. But when I was
>first trying to set up an SBE that had previously been a tuner-less
>front-end-only system, it was confusing.
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Nothing is stored locally about the cards.  The program is showing you 
only cards that are physically present in the machine that you are 
configuring.  The information about the cards is written to the shared 
database.

Kevin