[mythtv-users] Two Different Backend systems talking together

[Kevin Kuphal]

Richard J. Sears wrote:

>Hey Everyone,
>
>I have a second house that I want to put MythTV into. I have a T1 at my
>first house and a 3MB dsl line in the other house.
>
>I wanted to share programs and music and stuff between the sites without
>having to have cable, the music files, etc in both places.
>
>Is there any way for one complete Myth system to talk to another and
>transfer the requested movies or music in the background fr later
>viewing..? 
>
>Does someone have a good way to set this up..?
>
>  
>
First, I would probably suggest a VPN between your locations.  This 
would allow you to have both networks connected and even sharing an IP 
subnet so pointing the boxes at each other is very simple. 

Your best option might be creating a post-processing job for your 
recordings that launches a DB query and insert from one site to the 
other (depending on which site the file was recorded at) and then either 
run or schedule via cron an rsync of the file.  This way, each Myth 
system would have the DB entries for the recordings and once the rsync 
was finished, each would have a copy of the file.  You could also 
"re-execute" mythcommflag on the recording at the receiving site once 
received using ssh to build the markup table and flag commercials.

I would think your music might be small enough to handle being shared 
from one site to the other on demand.  As for movies, a scheduled rsync 
of the video folder and export/import of the video database tables 
should be enough to keep those in sysnc.  The same would apply for music 
if you found the on demand sharing to be unworkable.

Kevin