[mythtv] backend plus frontend (success!!!)

[Ian Goldberg]

Thanks!  I got this working myself just now (on debian unstable instead
of RedHat).  I just used ssh port forwarding on port 3306 (mysql) instead
of making a new user in the database, too.

Below is the patch I made to MC/programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp.

Now what I think we need is some concept of per-frontend configuration
so that different frontends can have things like:
- different shutdown commands
- different resolution/encoding params for live tv
- etc.

   - Ian

diff -u -r1.73 main.cpp
--- programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp      5 Feb 2003 04:25:36 -0000       1.73
+++ programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp      5 Feb 2003 20:29:38 -0000
@@ -223,7 +223,11 @@
     QApplication a(argc, argv);
 
     MythContext *context = new MythContext;
-    context->ConnectServer("localhost", 6543);
+    char *backhost = getenv("MYTHTV_BACKEND");
+    if (backhost == NULL) {
+       backhost = "localhost";
+    }
+    context->ConnectServer(backhost, 6543);
 
     QSqlDatabase *db = QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QMYSQL3");
     if (!db)

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:46:27 -0500, Greg.Froese wrote:
> I can try.
> 
> - for both machines
>         - running RH8.0.
>         - followed the great docs on www.mythtv.org for getting myth
> running on both machines.
>         - updated mysql and glibc to most recent versions to allow
>         remote
> mysql access on a RH8.0 machine.  There are other ways to do this, but I
> simply used the rpms from freshrpms.net to upgrade.
>         - be sure to be running the same version of cvs on both machines
> 
> - for frontend machine
>         - changed the IP address from "localhost" to my backend IP
>         address
> in MC/programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp before compiling the frontend
> machine
>         - changed mysql.txt hostname value to backend IP - had to turn
>         off deinterlacing in the setup section for Playback
> due to my PII lacking the sse flag in /proc/cpuinfo (more info in the
> FAQ's)
> 
> - for backend machine
>         - changed backend_settings.txt ServerIP to the backend's IP
> address (not localhost)
>         - added mythtv@<FRONTEND_IP> user access to mysql - make sure
>         the mysql ports are open and accessable from
> FRONTEND_IP
> 
> I think that is about it.  Let me know if I missed something gf