Eileen Webb wrote:
Hi all,
I've just started building my Myth system and wanted to run an idea by
more experienced users to make sure I'm not crazy.
Here's the story: I live out in the middle of nowhere where the only
TV that exists is satellite (DirecTV, in our area). I have some
family moving nearby who is going to get a system, which by default
comes with FOUR set-top boxes! Four is a lot of boxes for only two
people, and they have graciously offered us the use of one of the
extra boxes.
So I got this great idea that I'd set up a Myth system at their house,
program it from my house (yeah for web interface!), and record myself
some TV. My plan is to have a two or three removable hard drives
(actually, just some normal drives that are easy to access) and I
would swap them around to record shows. So stuff would get recorded
onto driveA, then at some point I'd come by and swap it with driveB.
Then recording could continue on driveB and I'd take driveA home with
me and watch it there. The computer at home would also have Myth, so
the file types and arrangements should still work, and I'll get to
play with the game emulator, too!
Does this make sense? Does it seem at all feasible? From the
outside, it seems pretty simple, but those are famous last words. I
would love any thoughts on this plan -- tips from anyone who has done
anything similar, horror stories on why I am doomed, whatever.
I'm considering the same thing with my father who gets DirectTV. My
thought was to use an external hard disk , not as the primary recording
device, but as a storage location. I am planning to use the
post-recording user job functions to copy the recording to the removable
disk, and export the SQL needed to reimport the recording to my computer
(including seektables, etc). This way, I don't have to worry about what
happens when things get full as I can let MythTV handle that with
auto-expire + re-record and I can remove the disk at any time (the
copy/export will simply fail in that case) for transport. To handle
the case of what happens when I remove the disk and miss a copy/export
operation, I had thought of writing a simple script that I can cron that
will check the job queue results, look for failed jobs of this type, and
re-run them on a scheduled basis so that they would be picked up again
when the disk was reinserted. Or else I would just buy 2 disks and swap
them in and out to avoid the problem altogether.
My other thought was to make the remote system a slave backed using an
SSH VPN type connection and just move the files to my computer
post-recording and change the hostname in the DB but I'm still not
convinced that is the best way to go vs. removable storage.
Kevin
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