[mythtvnz] Split server setup.....

[chris]

On 02/01/11 11:08, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, chris bayley<chris at thebayleys.net>  wrote:
>> Hi team, as a new inductee into the mythtv fold I am just struggling at
>> little with my setup.
>>
>> I have a compact media PC as the front end, a decent server armed with a
>> WinTV-HVR-4000 as backend, and a raid5 NAS box serving the NFS file
>> store and MySQL database. So it seems obvious as to configuring the
>> frontend for the database server but I don't see where to tell it about
>> the backend server ?
> Hi Chris, not sure what you are asking here?
>
> You tell the frontend where the database is, the database knows where
> the backends are. in mythtv-setup|general you tell the backend where
Ahh cool, that makes sense...
Will follow that to it's logical  conclusion.

> Where are you living these days, don't mind spending a bit of time
> helping if you aren't out in the sticks.
Sticks! (Halswell/Taitapu...) be good to have you both round some day 
this summer though....
>> Also, it is not clear to me at this time the intricacies of recording a
>> FTA broadcast from the frontend interface using the DVB card on the
>> backend...
> Just tell it to record from the frontend, go to manage recordings and
> follow your nose.
>
>> Is that standard fare ? or does my front end machine have to act as
>> secondary backend ?
> certainly not
>
> what distro are you using?
Mythbuntu frontend, Kubuntu backend,
> The only oddish thing is that you have your mysql server on a
> different machine than the master backend, but that shouldn't be a
> problem.
I was hoping not
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