MythTV

[Tandum]

Is anyone running Mythtv at home?

Does it work ok for you?

I wanna replace the win7 media box, it's old and slow.
Been looking at ubuntu/mythtv/kodi to replace it.
Media center is not available on windows anymore.
robin

[w0mbat]

I know nothing about MythTV but I am very happy with Kodi running on a Raspberry Pi 3....never has any problems at all.
Ian

[The_bluester]

I am using it at home. Back end is running on an Intel NUC using Mythbuntu (Easiest) and the front end is various Kodi boxes around the house. The tuner is a Silicon Dust HD Homerun networked dual tuner box.

I have a NAS with a network share dedicated to TV recordings and the share is mounted on start up of the NUC, that way the NUC can sit there with a 64G SSD in it and still manage recordings, the only wrinkle is after a power outage you need to restart the NUC again manually when the NAS has started up as if the share is not available when MythTV backend starts up it crashes silently.

It also took a little fiddling to find the best way to mount the NAS share, windows networking was too slow and the back end would run errors and eventually crash (Again, silently) If the recording drive is in the same box as the back end that would not be a problem.

It does take a bit more setting up than other software but it did not take all that long to work it out.

Aside from that, it just works.

[Tandum]

Cheers. I've got a couple of junk PC's here to try it out on. I guess the TV card may be an issue. I'll go looking for Hauppauge support.

[Tandum]

Struth, what a nightmare. USB controllers going off line without warning. same for Ethernet. That junk box is exactly that. Bought a $40 Avermedia usb tuner to test it out. Got video out a couple of times but never from a remote host. Looked like a firewall issue but wasn't. Probably issues inside the junk box. The Hackintosh PC seems to work fine but it's pretty recent. Used another hard drive for the test. Got another box on the floor to try as a client.

Been a long time since I've done any Linux. It's slowly coming back.