[mythtv-users] Master backend REQUIRES one tuner? Adding more?

[Adam Bodnar]

On 3/13/06, Jim Minihane <min02jsm at minihane.tzo.com> wrote:
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> Reading through the docs it says that the master backend HAS TO have at
> least one capture/tuner device. It suggests the "round robin" approach. Can
> I, as they suggest, have 2 slave backends with a total of 5 tuners,
> (DirecTV) and a 6th on the master. If I configure the tuners on the slaves
> first, and the master last, then it will rarely, if ever, get used. Cool. If
> I add 2 more tuners for a total of 7 on the slaves, can I delete the one on
> the master, add the 2 additional on the slaves, then re-add the one (now
> 8th) on the master. Making the 8th tuner hardly ever used.
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> How many tuners/devices do you guys have on your uber systems?
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> This is all good if I can use Plextor M402Us. If not… Plan B. Whatever that
> is.

Instead of removing the tuner on the master backend whenever you add
new slave tuners, just set the priority of the tuner in the mbe to be
lower than the other cards.