[mythtv-users] MythTV Raspberry Pi 2+ MythFrontend Setup Tutorial Updated

[Mike Perkins]

On 12/04/16 22:53, William Jacoby wrote:
> On 3/13/2016 12:07 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote:
>> Thanks to the work of Peter Bennett and Lawrence Rust I have been able
>> to combine their work to create a new build of MythTV for the Raspberry
>> Pi 2 or better.
>>
>> The build is available at:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/1iyhq6usqzalmg6/mythtv-v0.27.6-69-g41a2a8d-RPI2-jessie.tar.bz2?dl=0
>>
>> MD5SUM:
>> 43dd1a86a25e0dec74655f60df245635
>> mythtv-v0.27.6-69-g41a2a8d-RPI2-jessie.tar.bz2
>>
>> SHA1SUM:
>> 7f6d6960417a57c622afb4ded1950b1647f7f973
>> mythtv-v0.27.6-69-g41a2a8d-RPI2-jessie.tar.bz2
>>
>> The key differences from Peter's excellent debian packages are:
>>
>>    -  Includes MythTV suite of plugins
>>    -  Enables EGLFS mode for rock-steady OSD with custom video
>>       playback profile
>>
>> The key difference from Lawrence's pioneering tarballs are:
>>
>>    -  Includes Peter's RPi fixes and enhancements
>>    -  Built upon MythTV 0.27.6 instead of 0.27.5
>>
>>
>> Installation of the new tarball is described in the updated MythFrontend
>> Setup Tutorial.  See:
>>
>> Setting Up an Inexpensive Raspberry Pi 2 as a Cheap Frontend to MythTV
>> with MythFrontend
>> http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-rpi-mythtv-frontend
>>
> Has anyone tried setting it up as a slave-backend only?  Would like to have a slave-backend to my
> full backend to process the metadata userjobs.
>
Probably a bit underpowered for those kinds of activities. Besides, you don't need the backend 
active for those to run, I think you can use mythutil instead. More likely to be used if you have a 
remote tuner of some kind with a long cable run which can be better served by ethernet.

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Mike Perkins