[mythtv-users] Live TV on Master using Slave backed card?

[Tony Baca]

On 9/23/07, Richard Scott <richard at rhysmission.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm having the same problem. Got a master backend with 2 DVB-T tuners, 1
> combined frontend/slave backend with a PVR-350 linked to my Sky
> satellite system and a standalone frontend elsewhere.
>
> The combined frontend/backend NFS mounts the storage from the backend.
> This can watch LiveTv with any of the 3 tuners.  The standalone frontend
> also NFS mounts the storage from the backend, but can only watch using
> either of the DVB-T tuners in the master backend. If I try and change to
> the PVR-350 input, it just times out.
>
> If I start recording using the PVR-350 backend, I can watch that
> recording on the standalone frontend.
>
> Would appreciate any suggestions on where to start debugging this.
>
> Richard
>
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Live TV on Master using Slave backed card?
> From: Tony Baca <cfr131 at gmail.com>
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Date: 23/09/2007 04:38
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a FE/MBE and a FE/SBE each with a tuner card.  The MBE hosts
> > the storage and the SBE NFS mounts the storage.   Every thing on the
> > slave machine works fine.  I can watch live TV from any source.  On
> > the Master BE, I can only watch Live TV from the Master BE card.   IF
> > I try to watch TV using the SBE card, it times out.
> >
> >
> >
> > The only reason to watch LTV on the Master using the Slave is that the
> > Slave has the Satellite and sometimes I like to watch a sports event.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there some cache that I need to share from the slave?
> >
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Yes that is exactly what I am seeing.  I mount the recordings stroage via
NFS only because the master backend has much more space then the slave
backend, but the slave-BE does most of the recording.  It is as if the
slave-BE uses a local cache that the Master-BE/FE can't see.

What happens if, for the stand alone FE, you do NOT mount the NFS, just let
the backends stream?

I haven't setup a standalone FE, but plan to,  I had not planned on mounting
the NFS on that FE.  I would mount the audio and video, but not the
recordings storage.  Does that make sense?

Tony
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