[mythtv-users] Raspberry PI as backend slave or tvheadend as tuner ?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> On 6/4/2013 10:11 PM, Doug Scoular (dscoular) wrote:
>
>>  1. Would a Raspberry Pi be a reasonable platform to consider for a
>>
>>     mythtv slave backend ?, or if not:
>>
>
> The primary limitations of the RPi is lack of power and lack of memory,
> and a slave backend with digital tuners really needs neither of those.
> Recordings will need to be done over NFS, as MythTV does not support
> recording over the internal protocol. The NIC is tied in through the USB
> bus, so recording off a dual tuner and pumping that back out to the network
> is going to put a significant strain on it.
>


How about putting a signal amplifier in the mix?
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