Hi folks,
I've been googling this for a while now but can't seem to find anything even semi related.
Let me explain. Right now I have two DM800 se which work ok. One set as server and the other as client. Simple home card share. Lately I've been trying to cut costs. Electricity is quite expensive here so I don't want to have the 2 boxes in standby all of the time. To that end I'm buying special master/slave power strips that switch everything else off when the TV is in standby.
Soon I'll be getting a low power pc, that will always be on to run various things, ddns, vnc, utorrent. I'm already in the process of setting up an Ubuntu card server to run on a virtual machine on this pc which will allow me to switch on the client box without needing the server box on. The idea is to offload as much as possible to this pc and have as much as possible switched off.
So, this is all well and good until I get to the EPG. I'm currently running crossepg on the boxes scheduled to download at 4am. But obviously, if the boxes are hard powered off that's not going to happen. So what I need, somehow, is to have the pc download and process the epg and then have the boxes import the epg data from a network share on boot. Honestly the epg isn't an area I'm well up on. Is what I'm looking for even remotely possible?
Or is there some other direction I could go...? I'm finding it hard to come up with solutions.
I think downloading and processing the epg on the boxes when they boot would take way to long.
Any ideas?
