John Sturgeon

John Sturgeon

Retired software engineer, contributor to open source projects when I can. Working on way too many projects and hobbies, and making notes here along the way.

New 3-tuner HD backend system finally up

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I’ve finally finished putting together my new backend system. I went slightly over my $1,000 budget, but was pretty close.

  • Three HD-3000 tuners

  • 960 Gbytes of disk space

  • FC4

  • MythTV (18.1)

After getting through some initial issues with my hardware, everything has been working flawlessly. I was able to keep the cost down by going with a *CHEAP* video card (it’s just a backend afterall), slower processer, less memory, etc… And the installation time was fast because I didn’t have to configure all of the frontend stuff (lirc, alsa, xorg.conf modelines, etc…)

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