[mythtv-users] master backend on nslu2 ?

[Jacob Yeh]

Guillame (and all others interested),
I had the same idea of using the NSLU2 (running the official Debian/NSLU2
Etch) as a tuner-less master backend while also serving MythWeb.  This way,
you can save energy by not having a full-fledged slave-backend-with-tuner on
all the time.  The NSLU2 would be on all the time and, when necessary, it
would wake up the slave backend to record.  The slave backend would also be
woken-up when someone activates the frontend.

As for actually implementing this, here's what I've tried:
- installing Debian/NSLU2 (etch) onto my NSLU2 device -- SUCCESS
- installed MySQL database server on NSLU2 and created mythconverg database
-- SUCCESS
- modified the NSLU2 to auto power on (so it is running all the time, even
after power outtage) -- SUCCESS
- compiling mythtv from Debian source packages -- FAILED - received some
assembler error
- compiling mythtv from SVN repository (currently v 0.20) -- IN PROGRESS -
it has been running for a few hours and I expect that it may take many more
hours, even days to complete since the NSLU2 has very little memory and is
only a 200Mhz ARM processor.

It seems it should be easy to just have the MySQL database running and since
I'm not interested in getting any tuner to work on the NSLU2, it seems it
should be able to run the mythbackend program to simply query the database
and send wake-on-lan packets to the slave backend as necessary.  I realize
that compiling ALL of the mythtv programs is a waste since I will only be
using a small portion of the programs, but I have not figured out a way to
keep only what I need.

I will let you all know how it turns out but Guillame, it certainly is NOT a
bad idea (in my opinion) to use the NSLU2 as a cheap, low-power-consuming,
quiet machine as a tuner-less MythTV master backend machine.

Jacob
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