<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 June 2013 12:11, Doug Scoular (dscoular) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dscoular@cisco.com" target="_blank">dscoular@cisco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi All,</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>I have a tricky problem, I live on the fringe of Sydney and get a very marginal DVB-T signal.</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>The signal is just strong enough to support one tuner (well a dual tuner with one co-ax input – a Sony PlayTV tuner).</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>I recently obtained a second PlayTV tuner and have an older antenna on my garage roof. Using a co-ax splitter isn't an option as the signal is already marginal and boosted. I have ethernet connectivity
to the garage but no co-ax between the lounge and the garage. I was thinking I could use a spare raspberry pi in the garage connected to the spare PlayTV tuner and antenna as a mythtv slave backend and connect that via ethernet to my master backend.</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>I've only seen discussion of the Raspberry Pi being a dubious choice for either a master backend (due to the scheduling processing costs and/or recoding costs) or a frontend where the video decoding/
program guide display may be an issue. I was wondering what people thought of using the Raspberry Pi as a mythtv slave backend. Presumably it merely presents the tuner to the master and could write recordings to an NFS mount.</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>If the overhead of running a mythtv slave backend is too much for a Raspberry Pi I was then wondering if tvheadend (which seems to work for XBMC) might be a possibility.</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>So I guess I have 2 questions:</div>
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<li>Would a Raspberry Pi be a reasonable platform to consider for a mythtv slave backend ?, or if not:</li><li>Are there any plans to allow a mythtv backend to use tvheadend as a remote tuner ?</li></ol>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>Many thanks in advance.</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>Cheers,</div>
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<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>Doug</div>
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</blockquote><div><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You'd be better to use a HD Homerun DVB version as a network tuner to your existing backend, <br>
<br></blockquote></div>Cheers,<br><br>Anthony<br>