Jason Sharpe wrote:
Hello!
I am 98% done with my mythtv whole house setup! I have learned alot
and look forward to tweaking this sucker out!
I have 2 standalone backends, the master has a DCT3200 via firewire
and a HD-3000 (OTA) in it. Both inputs working pretty flawlessly
(knock on wood). I intend to have the master hold all of the
recordings from the 2 BEs (about 1TB in the master so that should be
enough for now)
I wanted to setup a slave BE to do all the transcoding, Comm flagging,
nuvexport etc so the master BE can focus on recording. I find that 80%
of my recordings take place on nights and weekends along with 100% of
the viewing at the same time so why not let the slave do the other
tasks while the master is hard at work recording and serving to the
frontends.
One of the last steps of this entire project is turning off the TiVo
(YAY!) and moving my DishNetwork receiver onto myth. I have read of
the headaches of getting a HD-3000 (using DVB drivers) and a PVR-250
working in the same box so I installed a PVR-250 into the slave BE.
To start, I am not running LIRC on any frontend or backend for remote
control use. I have PS/2 IR keyboards and learning remotes to make it
easy. (that way I can whip out the IR keyboard and use it to browse
the web/email when I I don't want to fire up my laptop.)
I have a serial IR blaster from www.irblaster.info
<http://www.irblaster.info> that I need to use to control the
DishNetwork box. My issue is that the slave BE does not have a serial
port on it. However my master BE sits right next to the slave and it
does have a serial port. I have LIRC working on the master and
blasting correctly using /dev/lircd.
Being a linux newbie I am probly asking a basic question, but with the
PVR-250 in my slave BE is there a way to have my slave BE use the
serial port on my master BE to blast to control the DishNetwork box?
Again being a newbie I tried NFS just for fun and when I tried to
mount /dev/lircd on the slave it it failed, but I didn't expect it to
work (exact error was "mount: 192.168.1.50:/dev/lircd failed, reason
given by server: Not a directory")
I have a USB to Serial dongle that I could use, but from what I have
read, that wouldn't work with the blaster I have and with LIRC. (or am
I wrong?)
I guess the last resort would be to put the HD-3000 in the slave BE
and the PVR-250 in the master, but with an hour of HD using 8gig, I
figure it would be best to leave it in the master so the slave doesn't
have to try to push that large amount of data over the network to
store it on the master.
I'm reasonable sure you can't do what you're trying to do, but I also
can't imagine you are out of PCI slots on your slave backend. In that
case, why not just get this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124010
Kevin
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