[mythtvnz] Split server setup.....

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:52 PM, chris <chris at thebayleys.net> wrote:
> 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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> Just Finally got that first pictures through DVB-S after flirting with
> firmware and cable troubles.... yeah baby !

ahh yes it pays to make sure thats all correct before blaming the system!

have you got mythbuntu-control-centre installed? it's a very good tool
for *buntu myth systems.