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

[cmisip]

My current master (and only backend) has its /mnt/store partition
exported via nfs.  I thought it was necessary until I found out that
mythfrontend from another machine could access the videos on the master
backend system without the nfs partition being exported.  You're saying
then that If I want the recordings available all the time even if the
slaves are not running, I need to maintain this setup and have the slave
write to the master's exported nfs partition?   I have another question,
is there an on screen warning that notifies me that the slave backend is
recording If I decide to exit and shutdown?  Or do I always need to
check the Watch a REcording screen to determine if the slave backend is
busy ( by counting the number of currently recording programs and
knowing which encoder is associated to each recording).  If this is not
the case, it would be neat to have this feature.  It would even be
better if upon selecting exit and shutdown it automatically shutdowns at
the conclusion of the current recording and the master automatically
knows not to assign the next recording to this slave. I am leaning more
and more towards a multibackend system.  I think my PIII 1 Ghz is good
for at least 1 TV card.   Thanks 


On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 17:55, Bruce Markey wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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