Hi Mike, thanks for your thoughts. Michael Brown wrote: > I'm going to build another Freevo Box for our bedroom. Now here's where I > wonder if something is possible... > > With multiple Freevo boxes and a mix of analog & digital TV sources, it would > be nice if it was possible to share Tuner devices between Freevo Frontends. > Imagine this... Choose watch TV, and then choose Analog for a local tuner, or > Digital to pick the Family room tuner (assuming it's available using the > Upsoon plugin). This may be of interest to those who have multiple HTPC's > and multiple sources (Digital/analog TV, multiple Satellite providers, or > network tuners like the HDHomerun). > > It would also be nice if the same concept could extend to the scheduling of > recordings. Let's say I'm going through the TV guide on a Freevo box that > doesn't have a tuner installed (or the correct one for the source). You > choose something to record, and the recording server on the appropriate box > accepts the job to record it. This may be of benefit to those who either > want a centralized recording server in an equipment closet, or those who have > different sources available at different places and want to make them > available elsewhere.
This is how the Freevo 2.0 backend is designed. You can have multiple frontends running, one tvserver (process that coordinates all of the channels and devices, recordings, live tv), and any number of tvdev processes (one per machine). So basically the tvdev process for one box manages its devices and channels (dvb, ivtv, v4l, whatever) and can write to files (recording, live tv, tv timeshifting) or stream to the network, ie: any frontend. I haven't updated my copy in quite some time though... I think there's some recent work that's been going on with the tvdev / recording backend. -Rob
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