[mythtv-users] small portable DVR

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 16:03:03 UTC 2019


> On Jan 17, 2019, at 10:05 AM, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 9:53 AM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> When this thread started I was thinking you were wanting it for travel use in an RV or similar. The referenced solution using the 2 RPis would be very portable. 
>>> 
>>> I don’t think I would want the portable RPi solution for everyday usage at home either.  I also use the silicondust premium and the mythhdhrrecorder as well although I am going to drop it this month and maybe pick it back up during the holidays later this year.
>>> 
>>> Maybe by then the quality will be better and the channels will return that were lost over these past holidays
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>> My goal is a RV portable system and the RP3 would work for that as a backend with mythtv or tvheadend. Only concern now is what to use for XMLTV listings.  Since memory is a concern with RP3 automatic update with tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite may not work.  Also automatic anything in an RV is not good as the WiFi is spotty. Usually have to use the Smartphone as a hotspot for everything. Manually pulling an XMLTV.xml file and using the file option on mythfilldatabase might be the best.  Also in the RV I’m not sharing the HDHR so I can use the old method of connecting to them in mythtv
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> Ideally you would be traveling in the RV, and channels would be changing.   I would suggest using the EIT from the broadcast. No Internet network connection is needed.
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> All you would have to do is purge previous channels and do a new channel scan when moving from city to city.
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> EIT works for both mythtv as well as for tvheadend. Usually there is 12 hours worth of schedule data broadcast on the channels.
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> Regards,
> 

EIT makes sense.  What do you do about mythfilldatabase in that case?  your channels will change from city to city.

Jim A

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