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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Message: 25<br>Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:39:27 -0600<br>From: Brandon Stoll <<a href="mailto:mrmagoo@mrmagoo.org">
mrmagoo@mrmagoo.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 2 Backends, 1 backend use the serial port<br> of the other?<br>To: Discussion about mythtv <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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<br><br>On 12/19/05, Jason Sharpe <<a href="mailto:mythtv.list@gmail.com">mythtv.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello!<br>><br>> I am 98% done with my mythtv whole house setup! I have learned alot and<br>
> look forward to tweaking this sucker out!<br>><br>> I have 2 standalone backends, the master has a DCT3200 via firewire and a<br>> HD-3000 (OTA) in it. Both inputs working pretty flawlessly (knock on wood).
<br>> I intend to have the master hold all of the recordings from the 2 BEs (about<br>> 1TB in the master so that should be 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% of my<br>> recordings take place on nights and weekends along with 100% of the viewing<br>> at the same time so why not let the slave do the other tasks while the
<br>> master is hard at work recording and serving to the frontends.<br>><br>> One of the last steps of this entire project is turning off the TiVo (YAY!)<br>> and moving my DishNetwork receiver onto myth. I have read of the headaches
<br>> of getting a HD-3000 (using DVB drivers) and a PVR-250 working in the same<br>> 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 easy.<br>> (that way I can whip out the IR keyboard and use it to browse the web/email<br>> when I I don't want to fire up my laptop.)<br>
><br>> I have a serial IR blaster from <a href="http://www.irblaster.info">www.irblaster.info</a> that I need to use to<br>> control the DishNetwork box. My issue is that the slave BE does not have a<br>> serial 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 blasting<br>> 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 serial
<br>> 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 mount<br>> /dev/lircd on the slave it it failed, but I didn't expect it to work (exact
<br>> error was "mount: 192.168.1.50:/dev/lircd failed, reason given by server:<br>> Not a directory")<br>><br>> I have a USB to Serial dongle that I could use, but from what I have read,<br>> that wouldn't work with the blaster I have and with LIRC. (or am I wrong?)
<br>><br>> I guess the last resort would be to put the HD-3000 in the slave BE and the<br>> PVR-250 in the master, but with an hour of HD using 8gig, I figure it would<br>> be best to leave it in the master so the slave doesn't have to try to push
<br>> that large amount of data over the network to store it on the master.<br>><br>> Any suggestions?<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>> Jason<br><br>Yes, you can do this. lirc has a command-line option to have your IR
<br>machine run as a server and have your other machine connect to it to<br>use the remote.<br><br>As far as I can tell lirc has no documentation on this. Check lircd --help</blockquote>
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<div>Wow, you weren't kidding when you said there is no documentation on the networking feature of LIRC.</div>
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<div>I thought I had everything working, the slave reported that it connected to the master in the log, the master's log showed that it accepted the slave's connection. But I couldn't get anything to pass properly to the master....I spent a few hours last night searching and testing, but with no luck. (however I am a Linux newbie, so it EASILY could have been me..:)
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<div>I will just figure something else out!</div>
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<div>Thanks to everyone who replied with ideas!</div>
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<div>Jason</div><br> </div>