[mythtv-users] master backend on nslu2 ?

[Tom Dombrosky]

On 5/30/07, David Muench <davemuench at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/30/07, Jacob Yeh <jyeh at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Very interesting. I've been planning a similar idea myself. Currently
> I run my backend as a Xen domU, but while it works it has a number of
> disadvantages. It requires the PCI passthru feature, something which
> always seems to cause issues with new versions of Xen. It's not
> heavily used I don't think. So I was pondering stripping my mythtv
> backend down to basically what you've described - it's the scheduler,
> and mythweb runs there, but no tuners. Then moving the tuners to a
> second machine that can turn on and off as needed. The main stumbling
> block appears to be that the mythtv auto shutdown/startup code just
> doesn't wasn't designed to turn on and off slave backends on demand.
> There have been a few threads about this, and a few ideas on ways to
> script around it.. But probably nothing as elegant as it could be.
>
> I'm going to keep my eye on this thread for sure though..
>
> Dave
>

If this whole IPTV thing takes off and allows recording with myth, you could
use both the nslu2 and a xen guest as a mythbackend with tuners.
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