[mythtv-users] Remote Frontend Hardware

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Matt a mythtv user wrote:

> Joe Votour wrote:
>> --- Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Matt a mythtv user
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm looking at building a small, preferably flash
>>>>
>>> memory based, system
>>>
>>>> so I can watch TV on a remote TV in a different
>>>>
>>> room.  I would like to
>>>
>>>> see if anyone has had any good luck with some
>>>>
>>> hardware. I know some
>>>
>>>> peaple have installed mythfrontend on some out of
>>>>
>>> the box systems.
>>>
>>>> any help would be nice
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you are talking about SD only you should look
>>> into the MediaMVP.
>>>
>>> The upgrade to 0.19 broke the live TV capability,
>>> but I think that
>>> will get resolved  in the not-too-distant future.
>>>
>>> You can find them on sale for $40 or less, they have
>>> no hard drive
>>> and have an IR remote included.
>>>
>>> It does a great job of playing recordings, as long
>>> as they are
>>> MPEG-2, and who want to watch live TV anyway.
>>>
>>> Sure hard to beat for the $$$.
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>>
>> Just out of curiosity, how do you figure that LiveTV
>> is broken in 0.19?  It works perfectly fine for me
>> (using SVN), using both my SD cards (PVR-250 and 350)
>> and my HDTV card (FusionHDTV 5 Lite).  My machine is
>> both a frontend and backend, but I also had success
>> with seperate frontend and backend.
>>
>> -- Joe
>>
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> How do i Upload the mythtv software to a dev like that, what linux
> distro do you use?
> -matt


You have to run a DHCP server and a TFTP server, the MVP boots from  
the DHCP server and loads its OS and Myth Frontend via TFTP from the  
server.

I run the servers on the same machine as my Myth system, but you  
could run them from anything you want.

It gets more complicated if the servers and the MVP are not on the  
same subnet,but assuming they are it is very easy.

Check out:

http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main

For more information.