You do NOT need to have the Front End Open to record. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 October 2011 07:50, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Curtis Walker <<a href="mailto:sultanoswing@gmail.com">sultanoswing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> That's great to know -thanks.<br>
><br>
> The reason I ask is that I run the FE and BE on the same machine... and<br>
> I often want to use the machine (it's my main PC as well) for other<br>
> tasks such as browsing the 'net.<br>
><br>
> Being able to close/quit the fullscreen interface of the frontend,<br>
> having scheduled recordings, is marvellous.<br>
<br>
you can also just switch to another program, eg alt-tab<br>
<br>
><br>
> On 03/10/11 00:57, Stephen Worthington wrote:<br>
>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:32:49 +1300, you wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Can't find the answer to this, so here goes:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Having scheduled a recording in mythfrontend, can I close mythfrontend,<br>
>>> and the show will still record?<br>
>>><br>
>>> In other words, does mythfrontend need to be open in order for shows to<br>
>>> record, or does it pass the needed info to the backend which will do it<br>
>>> itself without needing the FE open?<br>
>> No. Mythbackend is all that is needed to record. Mythfrontend can be<br>
>> on another PC (say a laptop) and that PC can just be started as<br>
>> necessary to run Mythfrontend and then be shut down again.<br>
>> Mythfrontend talks to Mythbackend by normal Internet TCP connections,<br>
>> so it can do that on the same PC as Mythbackend, or over ethernet,<br>
>> WiFi or Internet connections. As long as its connection has enough<br>
>> bandwidth, it can play recordings stored on the backend, and if there<br>
>> is not enough bandwidth to play recordings, it can still control a<br>
>> Mythbackend.<br>
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