[mythtv-users] Mult-system design

[Kevin Hulse]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Fred Squires wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> >
> >That's definitely the hurdle that I am trying to get my brain over.
> >I've got it embedded in my brain that a STB is required to be near the
> >TV....
> >
> >So.. there has to be some where in the settings to point it to a
> >particular backend tuner?  Or is it that you just point it (the front
> >end) to the backend, and the backend handles all of that?
> >
> >-Rich
> >
> 
> Yes, you simply point your frontend at the master backend and the master
> backend will decide what tuner to use, whether it's in the master backend or
> one of the slaves.

	Think of the WHOLE network as one big Tivo. 
It can have multiple tuners and those tuners may be 
available to whatever TV happens to be hooked up to 
the distributed Tivo.

	MythTV works the same way as a dual tuner
DTivo would. You navigate through the "live tv"
menu and if there's an available tuner you can
watch live tv.