[mythtv-users] Raspberry PI as backend slave or tvheadend as tuner ?

[jedi]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 12:26:13AM -0400, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 6/4/2013 10:11 PM, Doug Scoular (dscoular) wrote:
> > 1. Would a Raspberry Pi be a reasonable platform to consider for a
> >    mythtv slave backend ?, or if not:
> 
> The primary limitations of the RPi is lack of power and lack of
> memory, and a slave backend with digital tuners really needs neither
> of those. Recordings will need to be done over NFS, as MythTV does
> not support recording over the internal protocol. The NIC is tied in
> through the USB bus, so recording off a dual tuner and pumping that
> back out to the network is going to put a significant strain on it.

    I've done this sort of thing with a low profile box that had a
busted internal NIC. The tuner shared the USB bus with a USB NIC
and everything was recorded to an NFS mount. 

    So this kind of setup is not entirely out of the question.