[mythtv-users] quite remote

[Michael A Weber]

Unfortunately, using a remote frontend from a different location without sufficient bandwidth is not going to work.  Our recordings are big files and streaming them over typical internet connections outside the home is impossible.

However, there is a way:  Plex.  Provided your backend has enough “horsepower,” you can install Plex server on that backend and it can transcode on the fly and send it to the Plex app on a device at the remote site.

I have done this with my system, which is an older Xeon processor and my mom has ~8Mbps DSL and a Roku at her home.  She can watch episodes of Jeopardy which I record for her in the event she is away from home during the normal scheduled program.  I only have 15Mbps upstream bandwidth, and the entire thing works flawlessly… and it cost me zero.

Hope this helps…

Mike


> On Oct 7, 2018, at 7:32 AM, Ian Cameron <mkbloke at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 12:59, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com <mailto:darylangela at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Is there a way to watch my recordings from my son's home, when we're grandbaby sitting? Anything about remote FE's seems to be on the same LAN. He has Kodi on firestick, is that a possibility? Are there any links or wiki's I could use?
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> In the simplest terms, it would be a case of making the back end and database available over the Internet.  In most domestic settings that would mean enabling port forwarding on your broadband router to forward the relevant ports to the internal private IP(s) of your database/back end machine(s).
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> In practice, I would think about using a VPN like OpenVPN though and instead forward the OpenVPN ingress port on your broadband router for better security.  You would then just need to make sure that the database/back end are listening on the tun0 interface (assuming the VPN server/database/back end are all hosted on the same box) or that the VPN client has IP route(s) to the internal address(es) of the database/back end server(s).
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> Ian
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