[mythtv-users] multiple frontends single backend
Chris Pinkham
cpinkham at bc2va.org
Sat Mar 8 06:02:35 UTC 2003
You don't need the backend running on machines that you just want to
display video on. You only need the backend to record video on a server.
Just setup /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt and then run mythfrontend
and go into setup and configure things how you want them for the new
frontend.
> Right now I have a dual P3 setup to do my backend stuff. I am trying to
> setup some frontends that have no tv cards. Every time I try to setup the
> backend server to be a slave it complains about no video devices, if I put in
> a fake one of course it can't get to it.
>
> How do I make the slave backend ignore the fact that I have no tuners?
>
> I can get this setup to work if I ssh forwrd ports 6544 and 6543.
Chris
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