[mythtv-users] 1 FE and 2 separate BE-FE

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 11:14 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 1/23/2011 09:00, rawgarlic at gmail.com wrote:
>> > Because in this arrangement we have 2 complete backend-frontend
>> > systems X and Y in rooms 1 and 2.
>> > We don't need to setup a complete 3rd system.
>> > We just need to be able to watch any available content from X or Y at
>> > any given time, in room 3.
>>
>> Why not make X a master backend with frontend, and Y a slave backend
>> with frontend?  Is there any reason you need to have two independent
>> systems, rather than tying them together so they share tuners and
>> recordings?
>
>  Showing my ignorance of how complex mythtv is here, can the slave
> backend not have it's own tuners, access the master database, and master
> storage directory structure?

yes, and it can use it's own storage too.