<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 4, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...y</font>ou should probably make your frontend machine also your master <br>backend, then the slave backend will only turn on when it needs to <br>record something.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That's how mine is set up. The slave is also a secondary frontend, so I also power it up manually when I want to watch something on it. The master runs all the time.</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If you set up your tuners so the master backend's is preferred, the master will *always* be up when the slave needs to record something, anyway -- the slave will only be needed for recording if the master is already busy recording something else.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>