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

[tortise]

On 15/01/2013 8:18 a.m., tortise wrote:
> On 15/01/2013 7:50 a.m., Fred Watt wrote:
>> I've been running a master with no tuners for several years 0.25/0.26.
>> I have a slave be/fe with the Sat/DVB-t2 cards - only powers on for
>> recording or viewing.  I have a low powered atom for server duties
>> including the master b/e.  Works very well.
>
> Interesting, thank you Fred. Where are your media drive(s)? Seems to me
> they could also be on your slave? (and also save power but maybe stress
> their lives more with frequent on/off cycles??!)

Sorry found the answer above in the thread.

One point that maybe worth considering for the respectable goal of 
resource efficiency is that I see no reason that a dual LAN architecture 
can't be utilised, with a "private LAN" for the master to slave backends 
that is dedicated to the recording media traffic.  The normal LAN would 
then be unencumbered from normal playback and other duties.  There are a 
number of lowish power dual LAN motherboards around as used in firewalls.