[mythtv-users] Tunerless master … supported or still not?

[Michael Watson]

On 15/05/2012 11:14 AM, Bill Williamson wrote:
> I'd like to have my "master" backend (eg the server that MUST be up in
> order for clients to watch videos) be as light weight as possible.
> Ideally the MBE wouldn't do any jobs (commercial detection etc) nor
> have any tuners, just basically being a file server and database.
>
>
> I know that a while ago it was NOT supported to have a tunerless
> master backend.  Is this now supported?
>
Unsure whether a tuner-less backend is supported or not.     My guess is 
that it is not.
To get around it, you can add a "Demo Test Recorder", pointing to a 
valid MPEG-2 Transport Stream file.  You can download a valid stream 
from http://www.w6rz.net/

Add a video source, with no grabber, and Perform EIT Scan turned off, 
assign the new tuner to the new video source.
On 0.25, you can set the LiveTV and Recording Priorities to 0, so the 
"tuner" will be never used.   (Or a really High number)
NOTE:  If both LiveTV and Recording Priority is set to 0, Shutdown on 
Idle does not seem to work.

Regards
Michael