[mythtv-users] Simplifying the instalation? (everyone wantsthat!) - ideas for thought

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

>>> buzz at oska.com 09/15/05 11:50 PM >>>
> 
> What about having "recommended" or "common" 
> configurations? 

Isn't that what the PVR Hardware DB is for?  

> 1) single PC - everything installed,run and stored locally.
>
> 2) single backend system  -
backend+tuners+lirc+database+web+filesystem 
> all on one host.  "basic" frontend on other host/s (as many as
desired, 
> often just one) running GUI/mythfrontend+plugins only.

Does this assume that the single backend will be a frontend 
as well?  If not, why have LIRC?  I have 3 frontends and 1 
(soon to be 2) backends, and none of them run LIRC, yet 
I've got full remote functionality.  I used to run LIRC, but 
then it was only on the frontends.  Is there any reason to 
run LIRC on a backend (no frontend) only machine?

> 3) minor deviations from (2) eg: lirc on frontend, (extra) tuner/s 
> in frontend, 

If there is a (are) tuner(s)s in a frontend, this makes it either 
a slave backend or the master backend.  This is almost 
the only differentiator between a frontend only and 
a combined fe/be.

> What other common instalations are out there....?  
>
> What about a Wizard configuration tool?... (for common 
> configurations)

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Don't know if a wizard would be much more than 
stepping through 1-5 on the mythtvsetup 
process...

What might be cool is to have some sort of wizard 
(don't know if this is the right term) to help people 
select what sort of hardware they will need.

I know my biggest effort was in trying to determine 
if I needed tuners all over the place, how stuff 
(nfs mounts) needed to be defined, how the recorded 
programs got from the backend to my TV, if I needed 
cable boxes all over the place, etc.

I guess that's what the Wiki is for.

Paul