[mythtv-users] Trimslice ARM PC

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/31/2011 06:09 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Gary Dawes<gary.dawes at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> And that is exactly what my Pogoplug (running debian) is for.
>>> it runs the folllowing:
>>>
>>>     - DHCP
>>>     - DNS
>>>     - Web server (apache and ajaxplorer and owncloud)b 2
>>>     - NAS (nfs and samba)
>>>     - UPNP server for music and videos (mediatomb and ampache)
>>>     - Homeautomation server (HomeAutomation&  Telldus tellstick)
>>>     - Torrent server (transmission)
>>>     - Wakes up the Masterbackend on demand
>>>
>>> None of these are very intensive and run happily on the pogoplug which
>>> draws only 4W + a usb hard disk.
>>>
>> I should add that I have a php script on my webserver, which will permit
>> me to power up my MBE via wakeonlan from any internet connection.
>>
>>
> Couldn't you put your MythTV SQL database and Mythweb on there as well...
> does MythWeb require an active master backend

Yes.

>   or just the database?  If you
> can get away with this, then all I can see you needing is a script to wake
> the backend when a show is scheduled to record (just in case it was
> scheduled via mythweb while the BE was off).

Note, also, that /much/ of the reason that severely-underpowered CPUs 
are bad for MythTV systems is that it takes a lot to run MySQL database.

Mike