[mythtv-users] Has anybody put together a three tuner system ?

[Bruce Markey]

cmisip wrote:
> I did not even think about the ide hd problems I might run into.  I
> might be able to pick up a wintv go for cheap because of msn dollars.  I
> think I will give it a try.  If it doesnt work I can always put it in
> the other frontend in the kitchen ( a PIII 1 Ghz ) and make that a
> backend also.  I have some questions though.  In a multiple backend
> system, If one slave backend is offline, does the recording get
> transferred to the main backend.  I dont intend to keep both machines up
> and running all the time if I do put together another backend.

Yes it does. Good question. Each time the scheduler runs
it checks to see which cards are available then assigns the
recordings to the available cards (actually, card inputs
for the sourceid). So you can startup and shutdown slaves
and the scheduler will do the right thing. I do this
intentionally. Robert and I talked about this and other
multi-backend trickery then he wrote this:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-19.html#ss19.13

One of the drawbacks in my setup is that I use local disks
so I can only watch recordings from a slave when that slave
is up. Robert solves this by using NFS and added a feature
so that the master backend can use recordings on the NFS
partition even when the slave that recorded it is not up.

--  bjm