[mythtv-users] Stability of FE/BE combos?

[Ian Evans]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 9:10 AM James Abernathy, <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Since I'm retired and forced to stay home a lot due to Covid-19, I've been
> experimenting with a bunch of media software to learn and stay busy.
>
> My production backend is Mythtv v31 on Ubuntu Server 18.04 with a UPS
> power backup.  It is stable as a rock. Only gets rebooted when updated.  I
> do find that my Shield TV running Mythfrontend, Leanfront, or Kodi is
> mostly stable but occasionally fails and I have to restart the app, hardly
> ever having to reset the Shield TV.
>
> I've been testing combos on RPi4 and old PCs and find the frontends fail a
> lot more than I find acceptable. And since I can't fix the frontend without
> resetting the whole combo I can lose recordings.
> This seems to be true with Mythtv v30 and v31 and it's true with LibreELEC
> TVHeadend.
>
> My biggest issues seem to be screen freezes, and the combo forgetting it's
> resolution for the TV when the TV is powered off at night. With the combo
> on a PC, I can ssh in and restart lightdm and that sometimes fixes the
> resolution issue.  However, on Raspbian or LibreELEC I find rebooting is
> the only way out.
>
> So I'm wondering if this is similar to other's experiences?
>
> I don't think I could ever use a combo FE/BE in production based on my
> experiences.
>
>
I've been running a combo FE/BE since 2011. Once in a blue moon it acts
slow for a minute or two because I need to upgrade its 2 gigs of RAM, but
apart from that it's been fine. Never had a screen freeze or a resolution
problem.

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