[mythtv-users] dumb low power backend... questions on proposed setup

[Bob]

Andrew Wilson wrote:
> I'm considering rearranging my setup as follows, and I need some advice.

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> - If this is not possible, How quick / how reliable is Wake-On-LAN?

it's reliable, the speed is the same as the unattended boot time of your PC

> - Is it possible to do WOL using a USB Wifi adapter?

Some BIOSes claim to support power on on USB activity but I don't know, 
also if you can avoid using a USB Ethernet adapter I would as they're 
reportedly slow and aren't supported buy Linux .

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> - Would using a flash device for boot instead of a disk speed things up?

On the whole flash drives are slower than hard drives so no.

> Any helpful advice much appreciated.

Have you considered a low power, always on master backend with no tuner 
- DVB cards in it, just a load of hard drives, it can wake a front end - 
slave backend box with the TV cards installed when a recording is 
scheduled using WOL?

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