[mythtv-users] mythtv v31 slave backend help needed

[Jim Abernathy]

On 7/19/20 6:12 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 19/07/2020 10:59, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>
> (snip)
>>
>> Thanks, just a few questions. The need for a slave backend is for 
>> many reasons and 2 that caught my mind were:
>>
>> 1.� adding more tuners.
>>
>> 2.� adding more storage.
>>
>>
>> Having the tuners defined locally on the slave and no local video 
>> source makes sense because I only use one video source and all my 
>> tuners could use it because there are one set up OTA TV stations.
>>
>> However, I'm confused on the Storage setup.� The Storage Groups are 
>> all defined on the master, but how is the slave local storage defined 
>> and used?� It sound like you do all your recording on the master.
>> A point on the remote tuners: Using a source on another host is only 
>> possible if the remote tuners 
> are the same type.
>
> A source defines a method of tuning as well as a selection of 
> channels. Different tuner types require different sources.
>

So on my current master backend I have Hauppauge WinTV HD Quad PCIe 
card.  My slave would have a HDHomerun Quatro, so different types of 
tuners.  They could use the same list of channels provided by Schedules 
Direct, I think. The master backend could do the scan on one of the 
WinTV tuners, but not the HDHR tuners, so it could only establish input 
connections for the WinTV tuners, unless Mythtv can tell the slave to 
scan the HDHR tuners?

Jim A