[mythtv-users] Zotac ION + HD-PVR 1212: FE/Master BE or FE/Slave BE?

[Eric N]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:23:46AM -0400, Eric N wrote:
> > I'm planning my first MythTV setup with an HD-PVR 1212 already
> > purchased.  I have searched the mailing list archives and some users
> > have reported success using the zotac ion with intel atom processor as
> > a combined FE/BE if you do not plan on comm flagging multiple shows at
> > one time and have one capture device.  I will have a fileserver and
> > general use pc in my office that could perform some of the tasks of
>
>    Setup mythjobqueue the "office pc" and don't even let the FE/BE
> box do flagging jobs. Recording from the HD-PVR certainly won't tax
> the system any. The only concern might be disk space but you can host
> that in your office PC too.
>
>    I have a FE/BE machine that runs a HD-PVR setup like this. It is
> a slave backend one of my desktop machines in the home office is the
> master backend.
>
>
> Jedi, does the desktop PC contain any capture devices?  I read in older
versions of Myth that the master backend expected at least one capture
device, and that some just set up a "dummy" capture device in the setup to
get around that issue.  Did you have to do something similar in your setup?

Eric
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