[mythtv-users] Silent slave backend

[Andre]

On 5 Mar 2012, at 15:30, Raymond Wagner wrote:

> On 3/1/2012 06:00, Andre wrote:
>> When my re-decorating is finished I will need to re-organise my MythTV system. I am considering moving the master backend (and storage) such that it will have only DVBT directly installed, I will then need a slave backend for 2xDVBS2 in what will then be a bedroom.
> 
> There are only two reasons to use a slave backend, you're simply out of 
> expansion capacity in your master backend, or a slave backend can be put 
> in a location more convenient to the source.  Is your master backing 
> going to be placed in a location that does not currently have a unicable 
> drop, and is not conducive to running one from the dish?

It's a flat with a communal dish feed so options are limited, it's purely a physical location issue, what is currently the office will be a bedroom and the office will be in a room where I have an antenna feed for DVBT but it's not possible to cable for satellite. Very messy internal cabling or £500 for scaffolding! 

The Slave backend will need to be completely silent as I was planning for WOL and it will be a couple of feet from the bed the other half has very acute hearing...



> 
>> Is anyone running an Atom board as a slave backend?
>> 
>> I commonly record 5 or 6 simultaneous HD streams from two DVBS2 tuners during programme overlaps but as this would be netbooted with NFS storage I'm thinking it's CPU demands _should_ be very light
> 
> As you say, there is next to no CPU load.  The scheduler and database 
> are all handled by the master backend, while recording from digital 
> tuners is just a file copy.  Just make sure you have it connected to a 
> hardline.  You don't want to try to record to an NFS share over wireless.

Wholeheartedly agreed, holes for cat5 are already drilled, unfortunately extending the satellite cables would be very messy and overly long for an RF feed. Only 5GHz is useful here due to noisy neighbours on 2.4GHz and that is heavily used for Laptops etc.

Andre