On 12/20/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd had this working on my master backend for some time but was > wondering whether MythTV supports using this for any slave machines > that are needed for scheduled recordings? At the moment I make sure > they are turned on as and when needed (or left on if being used to > watch media). > > Is it therefore possible to control the slave machines from within > MythTV to allow them to shutdown/wakeup automatically, assuming > scheduled recordings are schedulable (via card input priority) on the > slave? For example, I would much prefer that recordings that could be > made on the DVB cards in a slave machine were scheduled and recorded, > rather than defaulting to the composite feed from a cable box in the > master backend machine. > > Any input, or even a simple no, would be appreciated.
Yes. From what I recall, the Master Backend can send "Magic Packets" to a slave backend, to trigger it's "Wake On Lan" system. This should then bring up the slave backend to start it's recording. This is all IIRC, however. -- Robert "Anaerin" Johnston _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
