I was wondering if anyone had had any success with a tunerless slave backend. What I'm trying to do is use me slave backend to do all the transcoding and commflagging while my MBE just does recording. I've been able to setup a slave backend with no tuners that functions, however it never seems to do any of the work, even though it's set to do jobs all the time and the the setting to tie jobs to the recording host is unchecked. The only error message I've seen is on the slave, and it says that no tuners are defined, please run mythtv-setup.

So, has anyone been successful with this kind of a setup?

I've read in the posts from people playing w VMWare for testing that they've made a do-nothing tuner that you could use to shut up the "no tuners defined" warnings. search on VMWare.

I understand you've unchecked the tie jobs to the recording host, but I'm not sure how you tell it which host actually gets to do the job. Is it possible that unchecking this means the MBE does all the work for all the slaves? i.e would making the tunerless box be the master and your recording box be the slave make the difference?

If all else fails I suppose you could set up user jobs for the commflag and transcode that run via ssh. you'd need to set up keyfiles on both ends so that ssh can run the commands without looking for a password.