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

[Michael Watson]

On 15/05/2012 2:30 PM, Bill Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Michael Watson
> <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for that.  Is there a way to make the MBE ineligible for jobs?
Easy.  In mythtv-setup on the master backend, uncheck all the jobs
> Also, my MBE will never need to shut down on idle (it's also my file
> server, hence wanting to have it as little impact as possible!)
>