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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:30:31 -0600<br>From: Kevin Kuphal <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:kuphal@dls.net" target="_blank">
kuphal@dls.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 2 Backends, 1 backend use the serial port<br> of the other?<br>To: Discussion about mythtv <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> ><br>Message-ID: <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:43A65387.4010406@dls.net" target="_blank">43A65387.4010406@dls.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
<br><br>Jason Sharpe wrote:<br><br>> Hello!<br>><br>> I am 98% done with my mythtv whole house setup! I have learned alot <br>> and look forward to tweaking this sucker out!<br>><br>> I have 2 standalone backends, the master has a DCT3200 via firewire
<br>> and a HD-3000 (OTA) in it. Both inputs working pretty flawlessly<br>> (knock on wood). I intend to have the master hold all of the <br>> recordings from the 2 BEs (about 1TB in the master so that should be<br>
> enough for now)<br>><br>> I wanted to setup a slave BE to do all the transcoding, Comm flagging,<br>> nuvexport etc so the master BE can focus on recording. I find that 80% <br>> of my recordings take place on nights and weekends along with 100% of
<br>> the viewing at the same time so why not let the slave do the other<br>> tasks while the master is hard at work recording and serving to the <br>> frontends.<br>><br>> One of the last steps of this entire project is turning off the TiVo
<br>> (YAY!) and moving my DishNetwork receiver onto myth. I have read of<br>> the headaches of getting a HD-3000 (using DVB drivers) and a PVR-250 <br>> working in the same box so I installed a PVR-250 into the slave BE.
<br>><br>> To start, I am not running LIRC on any frontend or backend for remote<br>> control use. I have PS/2 IR keyboards and learning remotes to make it <br>> easy. (that way I can whip out the IR keyboard and use it to browse
<br>> the web/email when I I don't want to fire up my laptop.)<br>><br>> I have a serial IR blaster from <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.irblaster.info/" target="_blank">
www.irblaster.info</a><br>> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.irblaster.info/" target="_blank">http://www.irblaster.info</a>> that I need to use to control the<br>> DishNetwork box. My issue is that the slave BE does not have a serial
<br>> port on it. However my master BE sits right next to the slave and it <br>> does have a serial port. I have LIRC working on the master and<br>> blasting correctly using /dev/lircd.<br>><br>> Being a linux newbie I am probly asking a basic question, but with the
<br>> PVR-250 in my slave BE is there a way to have my slave BE use the <br>> serial port on my master BE to blast to control the DishNetwork box?<br>><br>> Again being a newbie I tried NFS just for fun and when I tried to
<br>> mount /dev/lircd on the slave it it failed, but I didn't expect it to <br>> work (exact error was "mount: 192.168.1.50:/dev/lircd failed, reason<br>> given by server: Not a directory")<br>><br>
> I have a USB to Serial dongle that I could use, but from what I have<br>> read, that wouldn't work with the blaster I have and with LIRC. (or am <br>> I wrong?)<br>><br>> I guess the last resort would be to put the HD-3000 in the slave BE
<br>> and the PVR-250 in the master, but with an hour of HD using 8gig, I<br>> figure it would be best to leave it in the master so the slave doesn't <br>> have to try to push that large amount of data over the network to
<br>> store it on the master.<br>><br>I'm reasonable sure you can't do what you're trying to do, but I also<br>can't imagine you are out of PCI slots on your slave backend. In that <br>case, why not just get this?<br>
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<div>Hello Kevin,</div>
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<div>Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately I am out of slots. It is a MicroATX mobo and it only has 2 PCI slots. I have the nic and PVR-250 in it so they are full. </div>
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<div>I was hoping I could someone allow the slave access to the serial port on the master, install LIRC on the slave, and then config it to use that device. I thought it was a long shot, but I thought it was good to ask before I spent more money.
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<div>Can one recommend an easy to setup USB IR Blaster? or have any more ideas?</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div>Jason<br> </div>