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

[John Pilkington]

On 05/06/13 06:36, Nick Rout wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com
> <mailto:nick.rout at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com
>     <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
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>         On 6/4/2013 10:11 PM, Doug Scoular (dscoular) wrote:
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>               1. Would a Raspberry Pi be a reasonable platform to
>             consider for a
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>                  mythtv slave backend ?, or if not:
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>         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.
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>     How about putting a signal amplifier in the mix?
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> Sorry that is not properly a reply to Raymond, but to the OP.
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I agree with Nick: a low-noise booster as close as reasonably possible 
to a working antenna ought to allow splitting later.  Many come with 
multiple outputs.