I'm only using avg 37 watts for this:<br><a href="http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/hardware/low-power-mythtv-server.html">http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/hardware/low-power-mythtv-server.html</a><br><br>Although I only use it for SD.
<br><br>Is that too much?<br><br>-Pete<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad Templeton</b> <<a href="mailto:brad+myth@templetons.com">brad+myth@templetons.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:12:31PM -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote:<br>> * On Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 06:57:28PM -0700, Brad Templeton wrote:
<br>> > Automatic script to move recordings when slave comes up<br>><br>> Why do you need this, why not just use nfs or cifs to write<br>> the files directly to the master's recording directory and turn
<br>> on MasterBackendOverride. You could also create a user job to<br>> set the recorded.hostname field to the name of the master as well<br>> and then you wouldn't have to turn on MasterBAckendOverride and
<br>> you'd have the ability to delete recordings from the master when<br>> the slave wasn't online since the master would now own those<br>> recordings.<br><br>The goal is that the low power laptop is the master backend, and
<br>the only backend that's normally on. The other front/backends<br>would be high power (to display 1080i) and only on when tv is being watched.<br><br>As such, the master (laptop) would record most shows to its own
<br>disk, which is always there, and since it only has a small disk,<br>it would need to move the files to the backend/frontend system<br>when that system is on. (The frontend/backend would probably<br>boot from clock every day for a short time to do this.)
<br><br>It may be simpler to stick a large external drive on the laptop<br>of course, as that can be set to power down when not in use, though<br>you always get better performance on things like FF and audio speedup<br>when the video you are playing is local to the frontend.
<br><br>I need to have one server on all the time in my house, but it<br>doesn't have to be particularly powerful, and thus could be a low<br>power surplus laptop. The main thing stopping me is the always on<br>server is also the mythtv master backend.
<br><br>It may be that the best course is to try to plug away at getting<br>suspend to work, though for waking up a remote backend you can do<br>that with plain old cold boot. However, a frontend that you need<br>to cold boot every time has some annoyance factor to it. I'm not
<br>sure how much I want to trust timed boot for a master backend.<br><br>My frontend is an SFF, so it only has one PCI slot, so it can't<br>hold all my tuner cards. It could use USB tuners of course.<br><br>I haven't decided my final course to reducing power but it's getting
<br>to be a must. Using high powered computers that cost $300 per year<br>in electricity in order to run "free" MythTV is a very false economy.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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