MythTV on Amahi Server

[jammastercd]

I'm currently a M$ user that is preparing to move to a Linux-based system. I have a home-built WHS, Win7 Media Center HTPC and Win7 desktop. I also have a refurbished Dell laptop with Win7 installed on it. My first move will be to install Amahi as a replacement for WHS. I noticed the MythTV backend is a beta app for Amahi and was interested in using that in conjunction with the MythBuntu frontend as a replacement for Win7 on my HTPC.

To help me prepare for this move, I've recently begun listening to the MythTV Cast podcast and have found it very helpful. I was wondering if you've considered doing a review of the MythTV backend installed on Amahi.

Thanks!

[eddie]

Not sure, but is not amahi server just a service that runs on an existing system? I do not believe it is stand alone os. Thought there was already an amahi software to install from the repo, but I do not see it any more. We use mythtv. Dumped MS years ago. You do kind of have to change your view of doing things going from MS to linux. You do not have to have 10,000 versions of the os to do anything. At the most, two instead. I still just use one.

[Patrick]

I've never run Amahi nor am I familiar with it but I do see they have a package for MythTV in their repos:
http://www.amahi.org/apps?q=mythtv&commit=Go

[marc]

Not sure, but is not amahi server just a service that runs on an existing system? I do not believe it is stand alone os.

Its more of a polished distribution based on Fedora. It is intended as a replacement for a MS media / home file server. They treat mythtv as a plugin but it is really a package within their community distros. Seems kinda slick but I have not toyed with it.

[eddie]

Thanx for the clarification. I still feel like a beginner at computers. Just wiped out my mythtv box. Need to get it back up and running. Should be a piece of cake (Hopefully).

[marc]

If you want easy, mythbuntu is your best bet. If you want a great learning experience on linux, try arch linux. The documentation is top notch and the process quite fun. There are arch packages for mythtv once you are up and running which make for a fairly easy installation.

[eddie]

Spent so much time lately on Debian based distros, just would like to spend time getting to know rh again. Not for mythtv, but generally. Once that gets into place, Arch sounds like a real opportunity to look at. The pogoplug is suppose to have a version of arch that you can run on it.

[marc]

I have Arch on one PC and one netbook. I'm really surprised at how much I like it.
The next time I rebuild my mythsystems, I'll probably give Arch the nod for the distro.

I hear really good things about the new redhat but have not tried it yet nor the new mintdebian 64. I'd really like to try them.

Marc

[eddie]

For the time being, our house is going to have to stay 32 bit. I have my brothers laptop that might be 64 bit so I could install ubuntu studio on it for him, but I have not looked at it in a while. He thought it was dead, but it lives.