[mythtv-users] Remove dead slave server from database?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 21:07:50 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Fri, April 3, 2009 9:01 am, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> It's not Myth's fault that we're forced into the digital
>> switch, but I feel we could somehow do a much better job of defining
>> how to set up a completely digital system from scratch as that's what
>> folks in the U.S. anyway will have to do in 12 months when cable
>> systems completely drop analog.
>
> Well, recording from an STB isn't actually that hard to set up, in my
> experience.  But clear QAM does look like it's a pretty difficult and
> frustratingly manual process, still.  I haven't attempted it yet.  There's
> a bit of a chicken and egg problem since there's no point in getting an HD
> tuner when my Myth hardware can't play it back, and there's no point in
> upgrading my hardware to play it back when I only have an analog TV, and
> there's no point in upgrading the TV if it would just mean spending a
> bunch of money on new Myth hardware. ;)
>

Along with rental fees for STBs, costs of IR Blasters, higher
electricity bills, more maintenance problems, etc.

I'd love to have a working setup with two full STBs (HD or not)
instead of being stuck with the PVR-150s I started out with as I'd be
able to record channels above 99, but that's not to be at least for
now.

I'll be doing a Delete All this weekend and seeing if I can at least
get rid of the dead server. I'll not delete the old lineup info for
the HDHR that was on the dead server as I hope to set it up on the
older master backend. Don't know how I'm going to use what it records
since I cannot move it across my wireless network to any of the
current frontends. I suppose it's time to learn to transcode HD to SD
as every TV in this house is SD.

Cheers,
Mark


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