Quoting Jason Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:30:31 -0600 From: Kevin Kuphal < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 2 Backends, 1 backend use the serial port of the other? To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Jason Sharpe wrote: > Hello! > > I am 98% done with my mythtv whole house setup! I have learned alot > and look forward to tweaking this sucker out! > > I have 2 standalone backends, the master has a DCT3200 via firewire > and a HD-3000 (OTA) in it. Both inputs working pretty flawlessly > (knock on wood). I intend to have the master hold all of the > recordings from the 2 BEs (about 1TB in the master so that should be > enough for now) > > I wanted to setup a slave BE to do all the transcoding, Comm flagging, > nuvexport etc so the master BE can focus on recording. I find that 80% > of my recordings take place on nights and weekends along with 100% of > the viewing at the same time so why not let the slave do the other > tasks while the master is hard at work recording and serving to the > frontends. > > One of the last steps of this entire project is turning off the TiVo > (YAY!) and moving my DishNetwork receiver onto myth. I have read of > the headaches of getting a HD-3000 (using DVB drivers) and a PVR-250 > working in the same box so I installed a PVR-250 into the slave BE. > > To start, I am not running LIRC on any frontend or backend for remote > control use. I have PS/2 IR keyboards and learning remotes to make it > easy. (that way I can whip out the IR keyboard and use it to browse > the web/email when I I don't want to fire up my laptop.) > > I have a serial IR blaster from www.irblaster.info > <http://www.irblaster.info> that I need to use to control the > DishNetwork box. My issue is that the slave BE does not have a serial > port on it. However my master BE sits right next to the slave and it > does have a serial port. I have LIRC working on the master and > blasting correctly using /dev/lircd. > > Being a linux newbie I am probly asking a basic question, but with the > PVR-250 in my slave BE is there a way to have my slave BE use the > serial port on my master BE to blast to control the DishNetwork box?
Just a quick thought. If you really wanted the master to IR blast for the slave then you could setup the channel change script for the slave to simply be an ssh /telnet call to the master, which then calls the actual channel change script. It's reliability and responsiveness could be questioned, but assuming it's a wired ethernet connection between the two then I think the call would be reliable. The only draw back is that it might be a few extra seconds to change channels.
Just an idea... - Derek _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
