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I have setup with a headless master backend with 2 remote frontends. In my backend i have a ssd for the OS and 4 storage drives. The ssd gives the benefit of power saving as i run the spindown daemon on my storage drives (the spin down after 30 minutes of idle time). My storage harddrives should hop...

I have backend and a few separate frontends.

I am still on 10.04 backend and 11.04 frontends.

So still on 0.24 mythtv.

Is there any reason why i should not update?

Has anybody fiited a Blu Rray drive to their dedicated Backend. How did it work out? 0.25 is supposed to fully support Blu Ray straight from disk. So if i had a Blu Ray drive in my backend could i watch it on either of my fronends? Could this be a better option than a stand alone player which would ...

Do you have a particular IR remote you plan to use? if you are not yet commited to going down the IR route you could go bluetooth. I have had a very good experience with using the SONY PS3 DVD remotes in conjuction with belkin dongles. Regards setup I have used the uinput kernel module method of con...

On the latest pod cast the free to air UK satellite channels were mentioned, see link for further details. http://www.lyngsat.com/Eutelsat-28A-and-Astra-1N-2A-2B.html UK cable (virgin media ) could technically be received using mythtv but in doing so you would be in breach of the terms and condition...

Found one of these bare-bones mini pc's on sale new for £120, lowest i had seen previously was around £180 So with the addition of a Kingston s100 ssd and 2gb of ddr2, i had a complete frontend for the living room for £180. Works really well and is inaudible from from the sofa, much better than the ...

Not directly Mythtv related but potentially useful. I recently set up a redundant machine as a NAS. I initially tried using FreeNAS, but due to hardware incompatibles had to abandon it. I was unsure what to use instead, then i found OpenMediaVault. http://www.openmediavault.org/ This is a Debian bas...

Following on from my earlier post, one thing i can potentially do following the install of the 11.04 64 bit to the ssd is spin down my storage drives I currently have 3 storage drives 2 off 2 TB and a 1 TB. With the drives spun down while not in use and the OS on an ssd i would expect a lot less hea...

Its been six months since i made any changes to my mythtv back-end. I am now looking to do a fresh 11.04 64 bit back-end only install to a new ssd drive. I will not set up a swap but plan to run 8gb of ram I am intending to add a further 2 tb of storage soon, also. Current back-end started out as a ...

I thought i would share my recent experiences of building a second remote front end and making the original FE/BE a BE only. It has come about as a result of making the mistake earlier in the year of buying a cheap motherboard. This was intended to up grade the Linux machine i am using to type this ...

On my backend/frontend system i have 4 tb of storage. The 2tb recordings drive is now 85% full, usage of the pair of 1tb drives is fairly light. So my idea was can storage groups be set up on the 1 tb drives to provide extra storage for particular recordings. Could i setup a group say for films(ota)...

I do know what you mean about looking through recordings to see what you can delete. Before recently getting my 2TB drive for recordings i was using the myth native archive option to move some recording to the videos drive to make space. I see 3TB drives are now available, so increasing storage in t...

Yet another round of hardware changes have meant restarts were needed recently. I turned off my combined FE/BE yesterday evening after 9 days continuous trouble free running as there was nothing i wanted to record or jobs waiting. As i have mentioned before i am in the UK and I am now running a pair...

If you want a minimum risk option why not get a spare hard drive to put a new install on. I do not know how you have your set-up configured, but if you have OS and storage on separate drives you could keep you current / drive as a fall-back option. Your data base could be restored from backup on to ...

No problem marc if you want some more detail. I should mention that now the 0.24 ppa repositories are selected i am continuing to get fixes updates. My initial 0.24 fixes was 105 since then i have had 108, 112 and i am now on 116. None of these changes have caused any problems. I have this week been...