[mythtv-users] Architecture Idea - Raspberry Pi, VM, XBMC

[Mark Gardner]

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org on behalf of Mark Gardner
Sent: Sat 05/01/2013 12:42
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Architecture Idea - Raspberry Pi, VM, XBMC



Hello,

Apologies if this topic has come up before, perhaps in its component
parts, but I would appreciate the thoughts of the group on the following
architecture idea for a new Myth implementation.

- DVB-S2 USB tuner on a Raspberry Pi running a MythTV Slave backend
- DVB-T2 USB tuner on a (second) Raspberry Pi running a MythTV Slave
backend
- MythTV Master backend (with no tuners of its own) running in a VM
- Data storage to be on a NAS
- XBMC Frodo PVR as MythTV Front End running on dedicated hardware

Both tuners would be dual tuners ideally, but I've not seen any suitable
yet.

- Is Pi man enough to run a backend?
- Is a master backend (no tuners) in a VM a viable option?

Any comments / thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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I know I'm replying to my own post, but there's been quite a few replies and a bit of a 'mines smaller than yours' debate :-)

Anyhow, the architecture above was just floated as an idea, and its clear its a non starter. Thats fine. In summary:

*	Pi not powerful enough and USB/NW conflict. 
*	Logistics / total power consumption of multiple Pis
*	Master BE without tuners may not be supported. 
*	Data storage on a NAS may conflict with clients playing HD material. 
*	And one dislike of Frodo as a FE - personally I prefer it (each to his own) and I already use XBMC for movies etc.

Dead duck. Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers

Mark 

 

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