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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Hi Craig,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Would you know if this channel multiplexing is possible with the HDHomebase?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Rodney </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Date sent: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:51:56 +0000</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">From: Craig Blaikie <craig@swarmiq.co.nz></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] TiVo replacement</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">To: "mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz" <mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Send reply to: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Just thought I would add my 10c worth about the setup and use of MythTV.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> I have run a combined MythTV on frontend/backend for many years, but about one year ago, started playing around with the RaspberryPI 3 Model B. I have been running the XBain version of the Kodi media player, with the MythTV plugin.
This RaspberryPI/Kodi box is now the fulltime frontend for my system, contacts the backend, works beautifully.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> About one month ago, the big upgrade started. I virtualised the MythTV frontend/backend so that it is now running as a virtual machine, on my windows 10 PC, Skylake i7 - 16GB Ram.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> The virtual machine image is running on Hyper-V service on windows, this service anyone with 64bit Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 (Pro version) should be able to install through add/remove programs, it would also be possible to run this virtual machine
under VMWare Workstation or Player. The MythTV frontend/backend runs in the virtual machine, and I can record and watch programs there (testing the system), but there is no sound card drivers setup in Hyper-V by default, so there is no sound. The recorded file does have the sound and works great on the Kodi frontend.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> The install is Mythbuntu 16.04.1, and the virtual machine is set to use 4GB ram and I have given it 2 virtual CPUs, it runs at about 2-5%, load</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> The tuner is a HD Homerun, which has 2 hardware tuners, MythTV is configured for 5 virtual tuners per physical tuner, so these virtual tuners allow MythTV to record up to 5 programs from each of the 2 hardware tuners.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Storage is 8TB HDD, mounted in windows, but shared to the Virtual machine over a NFS share.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Scheduling/recording setup is done mainly through MythWeb, although programs can be scheduled in Kodi also.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Live TV is available via Kodi, but hardly ever use it.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Program guide is via EIT download, nothing to install and configure, just enabled in setup/MythWeb, previously I had used the tv_grab_nz-py on the old MythTV server</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> This design allows for multiple low power frontends (Kodi), and only one PC running full time in the office.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Future enhancement will be possible more storage and an additional tuner, either another HD Homerun or a VBox 4 channel tuner (2 HD/2 Satellite)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> The new server/image was a fresh install and have retired the backend (it turned off during the last power cut...) and I will need to move the recordings from it sometime in the next few weeks, planning to use myth archive to move the recordings
over.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Cheers,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Craig</span></font></div>
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