[mythtv-users] Central Storage

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Fri Mar 6 22:58:09 UTC 2009


John Drescher wrote:
>>> Will be using Wake on LAN for the secondary backends, suspend on the
>>> frontends, so only the Master and server will be 24/7
>>>       
>> That setup is not currently supported in mythtv.  Mythtv expects all
>> backends to be online, or all backends to be offline, but it will not
>> currently boot and shutdown nodes on-demand.
>>
>>     
> I have a master backend  and a secondary backend. I can shut down the
> secondary any time I want (as long as it is not recording) and then
> bring it back up and myth will use it again. It will even
> automatically move scheduled recordings over to the master backend if
> they are the same type. The only problem is if the master gets
> rebooted the secondary does not try to reconnect so the master thinks
> it is unavailable.
>   
There are routines in mythtv to shutdown the backends when nothing is 
recording, or bring it back up when something needs to be recorded or 
watched.  However, one backend will not start another if it needs more 
tuners, nor will a frontend start up a secondary backend to get access 
to files.


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