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<div>Hi All,</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Many thanks in advance.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Cheers,</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Doug</div>
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