Hello,
> How does the WHS go from standby to on? I can find information about "wake on lan", but I don't think it is supported by Tvheadend to wake up your NAS
It goes on via wake on lan. I never set up wake on lan on the pi, i think it works simply via autofs / autofs smb/cifs.
That is working well with mpd. Ok, you have to wait until the disk is there, sometime it's 30 seconds, some time more. in tvheadend you can specify an additional amount of time for recordings - i think when I would choose a high enough value, it should work that the disk is ready for recording soon enough. but of course I'm not a developer, and i don't understand the underlying design of tvheadend... Altogether, i'm really happy that i found tvheadend, you can do so many things with it! the only sad thing is that the nas won't sleep.
you can never have enough space on a nvr :-)
On our old topfield receiver (defective, that's why I'm trying the pi/tvheadend solution) we had 1 TB, that was quite ok, but there could be more. On the Nas free ds is more than 1 TB at the moment.
What was really annoying with the topfield, if I wanted to save the files / cut them and recode them for longer storage on the pc, there was only the possibility to use the ftp server of the topfield (100mbit). Big recordings over several hours in hd took over 10 GB, it took quite a long time to transfer the files. Now, with the solution where the pi stores the recordings directly on the nas, I can work with a 1gbit connection (pc to nas), what makes it much more convenient.
Until now, I didn't recognize any problems with saving 1 simultaneous hd stream to the nas (it's a pi3b+). I'll test it with 2 streams (it's a usb dual tuner).
I'll have to test if my power supply is strong enough for the pi, 2 usb ssds and the usb dual tv tuner.. Good Idea with the Black Friday!
> I don't know the sizes of disks on your WHS or what else other than music you use the machine for, but I'd consider whether you could move your music to the Pi to allow the WHS to be idle more often.
True.. I have to look for a bigger hd for the pi.
Thank you,
Stefan