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Hi all,
I've always had my PVR backend on the same machine as my main XBMC box.... however in my new house the aerial / satellite is in a different room... I've set up the PVR backend on a separate box now in that room and watch over the network.... is there a preferred way to go? Is there a benefit to having the PVR stuff running separately?
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Well my server which runs my backend is big and noisy, whereas my playback devices are small and quiet, so separating them makes sense to me.
As long as you have wired networking you'll have no difficulty.
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In windows media centre environment I don't know. It is certainly doable with mythtv.
But I don't do that. My server does lots of stuff. Serving media, recording TV, downloading with rtorrent, sickbeard and couchpotato, other shit I can't even think of. I just let it run. Current uptime is 36 days, but before that it was about 100 days.
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I think the PVR system in XBMC supports wake on LAN but I haven't tried it myself. In any case you'd be waiting for quite a while before it comes up and starts serving channels so the experience wouldn't be optimal.
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With the MINIX box.. Is using a USB tuner acceptable as a backend for the PVR feature?
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Isn't the minix android? There are no android back ends.
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My backend server currently sets itself to turn off after a couple of hours of no activitity - which is then a pain when using a client to watch TV as I have to go to a different room and press a key to wake it up. Ideally I don't want it on 24/7 though - could it be set to wake up using WOL when a request from the client is made? 