<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Mark Gardner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Mark@thegardners.me.uk" target="_blank">Mark@thegardners.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
Apologies if this topic has come up before, perhaps in its component<br>
parts, but I would appreciate the thoughts of the group on the following<br>
architecture idea for a new Myth implementation.<br>
<br>
- DVB-S2 USB tuner on a Raspberry Pi running a MythTV Slave backend<br>
- DVB-T2 USB tuner on a (second) Raspberry Pi running a MythTV Slave<br>
backend<br>
- MythTV Master backend (with no tuners of its own) running in a VM<br>
- Data storage to be on a NAS<br>
- XBMC Frodo PVR as MythTV Front End running on dedicated hardware<br>
<br>
Both tuners would be dual tuners ideally, but I've not seen any suitable<br>
yet.<br>
<br>
- Is Pi man enough to run a backend?<br>
- Is a master backend (no tuners) in a VM a viable option?<br>
<br>
Any comments / thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My master BE is a tuner-less VM running on ESXi 5.0. It was originally a dual Opteron server that I virtualized a couple years ago. My tuner is an HDHomeRun Prime (Charter Cable in the US). Since the host is pretty beefy (Poweredge 2950 with 2 4-core Xeons and 16GB RAM), I have had few issues. The one sticking point is that my Poweredge is a gen 2 which does not have the necessary magic to 'pin' USB ports to VMs that a gen 3 has. This means I can't use my HD-PVR with the BE. Overall I'm happy with my setup.<br>
<br></div><div>My Pi is on backorder till February but I can say that I have been using a hacked version of Mythlink.pl + symlinks + Plex and it is almost awesome. I'd say in another six months I'll have all the bugs worked out and can present it as a viable alternative to a Myth FE for mobile and offsite devices.<br>
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