Can XBMC Frontend connect to multiple backends

Gavin Brett

Does anyone know if the XBMC TVheadend frontend client can connect to more than one TVheadend backend?

I have one PC with a DVB-S2 tuner and another with a DVB-T2. I wanted to connect have DVB-S2 in main HTPC and DVB-T2 in main server.

Can I use one of the other XBMC clients to connect to TVheadend backend?

Or can the XBMC frontend client be installed twice?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gavin

ProfYaffle

I believe you can install the PVR add-on multiple times, each one then connecting to a different backend. You need to rename the add-on before installation, though... I remember it being mentioned on the XBMC forum somewhere.

Can you not move the tuners to a single system, though? That'd give you some channel resilience as well (e.g. to reduce the likelihood of tuner locking).

ProfYaffle

Links:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=158599

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=161603

Gavin Brett

thanks for that, ill try getting add-on added twice, and see what happens!

BTW - the tuners i have are both PCIe and all my motherboards only have one PCIe slot. So plan is to put one tuner in HTPC (running TVHeadend under openelec ) and one in Server (running TVHeadend under ubuntu 1304).

My future plan is to get new motherboard with 2 PCIe slots for tuners. I did have a Blackgold Quad Tuner DVBS2/DVBT2 but couldn't get it working in Ubuntu (it worked fine in Window$)-

regards

Gavin