[mythtv-users] MythAuto?

Cedar McKay cedarmckay at mac.com
Tue Sep 16 09:21:42 EDT 2003


On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 09:10  PM, Kent Williams wrote:

> I'm looking to do something vaguely similar, however not in the car. 
> We've got a few houses connected via wireless. At one place there will 
> be a master backend with a couple of tuners, to this there will be one 
> or two frontends directly connected via ethernet.
>
>

For the record, I would find a car version of myth useful. I'm getting 
a 2004 prius which has a pretty big touchscreen standard. I'd like to 
figure out how to tie into the system.


>
> Now the interesting part which is related somewhat to what you are 
> looking into ...
>
> There will be a few fontends that are connected via the wireless. From 
> these clients live TV isn't really important. We are more after 
> sharing recordings, which will all be recorded back at the main 
> backend, however, all frontends will be able schedule new recordings. 
> So far this is all currently possible. However, as viewing recordings 
> over the wireless won't be possible in realtime, I'm looking for some 
> way to buffer or precopy recordings of interest. I envisage something 
> like the wireless frontend being able to browse recordings on the 
> master backend and select those which they'd like to view. These would 
> then be copied locally, ready to be watched. Further to this, each 
> wireless frontend could nominate favourite shows that will 
> automatically be copied from the master backend one the show is over, 
> ready for immediate viewing, all in a way that is usable by a non tech 
> user. I don't want to mirror the entire backend as this would require 
> substantial disk space at each location and secondly it is a waste of 
> bandwidth. We currently have a linux box doing routing for the 
> wireless network at each location so achieving this setup with some 
> sort of slave backend isn't a problem.
>

Though I think this might be wandering off topic, rather than setting 
up a complicated software based solution to supporting wireless 
frontends, why not look into 802.11G? It seems like linux support is 
immature, but growing, but it will probably be ready before the big 
changes to myth that you propose are. Then you can have your wireless 
frontends be full-featured too.


best,
Cedar



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