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<blockquote data-quote="davidf" data-source="post: 957371" data-attributes="member: 19484"><p>I'm guessing it's one of the ReadyNAS - not a windows OS anyway.</p><p> </p><p>There's good news and bad:</p><p>The bad - TV Server requires a Windows machine to run on.</p><p>The good news is that it doesn't have to be on 24/7 - There's a power scheduler which will wake the nominated server whenever you want to watch TV.</p><p> </p><p>Normally in this situation you nominate one of the machines as the TV server which will turn on and off when you watch TV (and when it gets the EPG overnight). The NAS can be used to store recordings and/or the timshifting files when you watch TV (timeshifting allows pause, rewind etc). As @<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/kiwijunglist.76888/" target="_blank">kiwijunglist</a> said you can watch multiple channels on the same card if they are transmitted on the same frequency so you need less tuners than clients - there are usually 6 frequencies in the UK so 6 tuners could serve as many clients as you have bandwidth for. I don't know if the netgear NAS supports a database - but I have one on my NAS which keeps the EPG data. MePo also supports DVB-S cards so FreeSat and Sky are available too (channels can be linked between FreeView and FreeSat so that multiple tuners are available to watch a channel).</p><p> </p><p>Other media can be read from the NAS and generally you can find a plugin for anything you can think of e.g. TV Series (Keeps track of all the TV series on the NAS and allows you to view them by Watched Flag downloads info from TheTVDb) - Moving Pictures does the same for movies and downloads info from IMDB. Online Videos (YouTube et al).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davidf, post: 957371, member: 19484"] I'm guessing it's one of the ReadyNAS - not a windows OS anyway. There's good news and bad: The bad - TV Server requires a Windows machine to run on. The good news is that it doesn't have to be on 24/7 - There's a power scheduler which will wake the nominated server whenever you want to watch TV. Normally in this situation you nominate one of the machines as the TV server which will turn on and off when you watch TV (and when it gets the EPG overnight). The NAS can be used to store recordings and/or the timshifting files when you watch TV (timeshifting allows pause, rewind etc). As @[URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/kiwijunglist.76888/']kiwijunglist[/URL] said you can watch multiple channels on the same card if they are transmitted on the same frequency so you need less tuners than clients - there are usually 6 frequencies in the UK so 6 tuners could serve as many clients as you have bandwidth for. I don't know if the netgear NAS supports a database - but I have one on my NAS which keeps the EPG data. MePo also supports DVB-S cards so FreeSat and Sky are available too (channels can be linked between FreeView and FreeSat so that multiple tuners are available to watch a channel). Other media can be read from the NAS and generally you can find a plugin for anything you can think of e.g. TV Series (Keeps track of all the TV series on the NAS and allows you to view them by Watched Flag downloads info from TheTVDb) - Moving Pictures does the same for movies and downloads info from IMDB. Online Videos (YouTube et al). [/QUOTE]
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