On 12/19/05, Jason Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 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? > > Again being a newbie I tried NFS just for fun and when I tried to mount > /dev/lircd on the slave it it failed, but I didn't expect it to work (exact > error was "mount: 192.168.1.50:/dev/lircd failed, reason given by server: > Not a directory") > > I have a USB to Serial dongle that I could use, but from what I have read, > that wouldn't work with the blaster I have and with LIRC. (or am I wrong?) > > I guess the last resort would be to put the HD-3000 in the slave BE and the > PVR-250 in the master, but with an hour of HD using 8gig, I figure it would > be best to leave it in the master so the slave doesn't have to try to push > that large amount of data over the network to store it on the master. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > Jason
Yes, you can do this. lirc has a command-line option to have your IR machine run as a server and have your other machine connect to it to use the remote. As far as I can tell lirc has no documentation on this. Check lircd --help _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
