[mythtv-users] Resolved, mostly: HD Choppy or Jerky

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Dick,

Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 2:50:37 AM, you wrote:

> On 02/03/2014 05:46 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Dick,
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Then if you ran both on the same machine, where does netspeed come in?

> The tuner is a HDHomeRun Prime, which is three tuners in a little box 
> with a cable connection and an Ethernet connection. So the netspeed is
> between it and the computer.

>> And about splitting frontend and backend. I started out with both on
>> one machine. Sometimes the frontend gets unstable needing a reboot. If
>> the backend is on the same machine recording, you can't and have to
>> wait, which can be annoying. I moved the backend to my fileserver,
>> that had surplus in power and is running fulltime anyway.

> That's worth considering. There are times when we're watching something
> and recording something else.



About those script you will need rrdtool and if you want to record
sensors(temperature, fanspeed) you need lm_sensors and hddtemp for
disk temperature. Most other things can be grabbed from /prog.
The script runs from your crontab and checks all defined values ones a
minute. Every now and then it creates a graph over the last
day/week/month. I haven't come to making a webpage for viewing.
I have documented most parts. The 4 files go to /etc/rrdtool/
They consist of:
1 the main script                         rrdtool-script.sh
2 the script with sample functions        rrdtool-sample.sh
3 the file with the sample defenitions    rrdtool.defs
4 the file with basic configurations      rrdtool.conf
The default location for the rrd files is /var/lib/rrdtool-data
and for the graphic files /var/lib/rrdtool-data/cache
but can be changed in rrdtool.conf
You should understand something of rrdtool

I can not guaranty anything, but as far as I know it can not do
damage. If you want them, give me you e-mail and I send them attached.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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