[mythtv-users] NAS with flash drive?

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 18 September 2009 21:41:14 Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 01:30:47 Per Jørgensen wrote:
> > > As far as I know - Its possible to run MythTV on the NSLU2 - allthough
> > > I'm using it for backup device - and seconedary DNS!
> > > But a guide for the NSLU2 -http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_On_NSLU2
> >
> > I would describe this as a triumph of engineering over common sense. The
> > slug
> > has no video hardware, you have tro display on a different machine.
> >
> > The slug does not even have a floating point unit, even decoding MP3s
> > strains
> > this little device (I had to locate an integer-based decoder). Running
> > MySQL
> > is a chore for a slug.
> >
> > I suppose it could be done, but why?
> >
> > The slug and other similar devices are very handy and can do a lot, but
> > running Myth would not be its strong point, IMHO.
> >
> > The SheevaPlug has a little more capability, but is still not capable of
> > intensive A/V applications. I'm not sure if the SheevaPlug has an FPU,
> > but it's still a limited device with no video hardware.
> >
> > I ran a mail server for a long time on a slug, but it fell down trying to
> > cope
> > with modern anti-spam and anti-virus applications. For example, doing OCR
> > to
> > detect image spam was way beyond its cpabilities. It worked, but at a
> > crawl.
> >
> > Great little units, but not really Myth hardware.
>
> This guy is running a master backend (MySql + MythWeb + alarm) on a
> SheevaPlug.  He uses a slave backend (which the Sheeva wakes up) for
> recording.
>
> All the things he has running on the SheevaPlug:
>
> http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Real_time_Statistics
>
> Details on how he set it up:
>
> http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Sheeva_Plug_as_a_MythTV_master_backend
>
> 11W max power.  Nice.

Very nice. The SheevaPlug is more capable than the slug, but the slug is 
certainly capable of a lot. Many people are running them as asterisk servers, 
and a sub-$100 6-watt PBX controller is not bad.


-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org