[mythtv-users] Remote Frontend Hardware

[Matt a mythtv user]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Matt a mythtv user wrote:
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>> Joe Votour wrote:
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>>> --- Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Apr 17, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Matt a mythtv user
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> I'm looking at building a small, preferably flash
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>>>> memory based, system
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>>>>> so I can watch TV on a remote TV in a different
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>>>> room.  I would like to
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>>>>> see if anyone has had any good luck with some
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>>>> hardware. I know some
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>>>>> peaple have installed mythfrontend on some out of
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>>>> the box systems.
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>>>>> any help would be nice
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>>>> 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
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>
>
> 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:
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> http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main
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> For more information.
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So it looks like after I make the changes to my dhcp server, I need only 
download the dongle.bin.mvpmc bin file and drop in in my tftpboot dir, 
boot my mediamvp unit and it should boot off my tftp server.

Am I missing anything?

-Matt