[mythtv] web setup -- alternate port / slave backend

[John P Poet]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 8:15 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 11/14/23 21:30, John P Poet wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > With current master, what is the correct way to set up a slave backend?
> >
> > Are alternate ports supported? If so, what steps are needed? With
> > mythbackend starting up for the first time expecting a web connection,
> > I assume a "--port" option of some sort would be necessary to get
> > mythbackend listening on the correct port, but I don't see anything
> > like that as an option, so I assume that is not supported yet.
> >
> > I would like to run multiple instances of mythbackend on the same
> > hardware. I have done this in the past with multiple master backends.
> > This time I want to do it with a combination of master and slave
> backends.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Hi John
>
> If you start mythbackend in a new install with empty database, it will
> listen on the default port, 6544 so that you can use the web app to
> perform setup. You can then change the backend status port and other
> ports as you need. After restarting it will use the new ports if you
> changed them.
>
> To set up a slave backend on the same machine with different ports, you
> may have to shut down the master backend that uses default ports while
> you do the setup on the slave backend and change its ports. Once changed
> you could start both backends.
>
> Alternatively you may be able to set an override on the port number via
> the -O option on myhbackend and the appropriate setting strings for the
> settings that hold  the port numbers.
>
> Some method is needed to give the slave backend a different name, via a
> different config.xml. Either it can run under a different user id or it
> can use a MYTHCONFDIR environment variable to set a location where the
> config.xml will be found.
>
> For a test setup you can use my scripts that automate the creation of
> multiple setups on one machine, at
>
> https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/tree/master/deb-light#developing-and-testing
>
>
> If there is a missing part in the web app setup,  please  let me know so
> I can fix it.
>
> Peter
>

Thank you Peter. I didn't want to shut down the running master and had
forgotten about the -O option. I should be able to get it all working and
will let you know if I run into any issues.

John
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