[mythtv-users] quite remote

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 10:44:17 -0500, you wrote:

>Unfortunately, using a remote frontend from a different location without sufficient bandwidth is not going to work.  Our recordings are big files and streaming them over typical internet connections outside the home is impossible.
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>However, there is a way:  Plex.  Provided your backend has enough “horsepower,” you can install Plex server on that backend and it can transcode on the fly and send it to the Plex app on a device at the remote site.
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>I have done this with my system, which is an older Xeon processor and my mom has ~8Mbps DSL and a Roku at her home.  She can watch episodes of Jeopardy which I record for her in the event she is away from home during the normal scheduled program.  I only have 15Mbps upstream bandwidth, and the entire thing works flawlessly
 and it cost me zero.
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>Hope this helps

>
>Mike

Yes, you would need a connection that was fibre all the way.  Here in
New Zealand, it is possible to get that, but putting all the data
through an OpenVPN connection would likely slow it down too much, and
allowing open access to your MythTV services from the Internet is a
really bad idea.  I do have OpenVPN set up like that so I can run
mythfrontend remotely, but only for setting up recordings and the
like, not for playing a recording.

Another way of having your TV with you is to have your laptop capable
of running MythTV (mine is a frontend/backend setup).  I use
mythexport and mythimport to copy the recordings I want from my main
MythTV box to my laptop to take with me.  The laptop has an external
drive mount for a large hard drive so I can take a lot of recordings
for myself and other family members with us when we are on holiday.