[mythtv-users] On the Road - Remote Frontend

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:02 PM, DISAFAN <disafan at aim.com> wrote:

> I've looked through the mailing list logs and read a few discussions of
> a similar nature, but wanted feedback on this problem I'm having.
>
> I maintain a MythTV system in my home consisting of a variety of tuners
> and misc HD components. My relatives have a vacation home a few hours
> away I often visit on weekends. There is basic cable in analog there, so
> I took my extra analog cards I used to use in my original system and
> some old computer components and built a combined BE/FE there. It has
> created several issues.
>
> 1. When I'm coming up, I want to log onto the system remotely...which I
> can do, and setup the program schedule I have on my primary to record
> there, so I can watch the programs locally. I haven't thought of a good
> automatic way to do this. How do I tell a system to copy only the
> schedule for a certain time period to another system? Especially when
> the instructions for many recording schedules are Record at Any Time on
> Channel ___?
>
> Since analog cable is basic, and thus I'm missing many channels I
> normally get, I often bring programs by exporting them to an external
> hard drive and carrying them along. Not a problem there, but....
>
>
> 2. I'm afraid that analog will get a shutdown there any month now, and
> I've added a cheap digital tuner, which will allow it to keep broadcast
> stations(no broadcast reception up here though). I'm looking for
> thoughts on transferring the shows over the net to the remote system. If
> the program aired while I'm away, there is no way to verify a commercial
> flag, so I can't save  space by cutting commercials, because I might
> lose a piece of the show. That creates several questions.
>    a. What is the best compression setting/codec I should use in this
> case? Many of these things are HD, and I don't have that kind of
> bandwidth, alas. A 74mb file takes 20-30 minutes to transfer.
>   b. How can I best automate this? I don't need every program
> transferred. I'd like to set it up as a user job on the home system,
> where I can specify for any recording to run the job, which will
> transcode the episode into an ultra-compressed format while keeping the
> HD original for the home computer, and schedule it for uploading to the
> remote system, perhaps using a cron job. And then a second cron job on
> the remote that adds it to the remote database.
>
> I'd welcome some real-life stories of people who may have done similar
> projects, or how you might suggest I implement such a system. I also
> have to fiddle with wakeup settings to make this work, because the
> system is programming to shut itself down while setting the next
> recording time, as I don't live there, there may be days in between
> recordings.


One word: slingbox

You're using the wrong technology to solve this problem

Kevin
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