[mythtv-users] Slave Backends

[rwk at americom.com]

Can someone answer some questions for me regarding slave backends.  I
have not been able to find the answers in the documentation or the mail
archives.

I previously had one tuner card and have scheduled a number of programs
to record.  I have now added a second tuner card (on a slave backend).
However, it is not clear to me that it is being seen my the system.
When I view the conflict resolution screen, it continues to show a
conflict between two programs scheduled at the same time.

I would expect that if the system was recognizing the second tuner that
it would not show these as a conflict since it now has two tuners.  Is
this correct?

Also, is it possible for two frontends (on two different systems) to
each watch live-tv at the same time, one on each tuner?  When I try, the
second frontend fails, saying all inputs are busy.

The original master backend continues to work as it did previously, but
I cannot tell if the slave is working.  (I know the card and driver are
working as I am able to capture data from /dev/video0 into a file
outside of mythtv.)

Here is the data in my tables.  Is it reasonable?

mysql> select * from capturecard;
+--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+--------------+----------------+-----------------------+--------+----------+
| cardid | videodevice | audiodevice | vbidevice | cardtype | defaultinput | audioratelimit | hostname              | use_ts | dvb_type |
+--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+--------------+----------------+-----------------------+--------+----------+
|      1 | /dev/video0 | /dev/dsp    | /dev/vbi  | MPEG     | Tuner 0      |          44100 | furnace               |   NULL | NULL     |
|      2 | /dev/video0 | /dev/dsp    | /dev/vbi  | MPEG     | Tuner 0      |          44100 | htpc1                 |   NULL | NULL     |
+--------+-------------+-------------+-----------+----------+--------------+----------------+-----------------------+--------+----------+
2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select * from cardinput;
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+-----------+
| cardinputid | cardid | sourceid | inputname | externalcommand | preference | shareable | tunechan | startchan |
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+-----------+
|           1 |      1 |        2 | Tuner 0   |                 |       NULL | N         |          | 2         |
|           3 |      2 |        1 | Tuner 0   |                 |       NULL | N         |          | 2         |
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+------------+-----------+----------+-----------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Thanks,
Dick