[mythtv-users] Changing hostname breaks mythtv?

Brian Kelsay bkelsay at comcast.net
Sun Jul 20 22:38:25 EDT 2003


Isaac Richards wrote:

> On Sunday 20 July 2003 07:57 pm, Shawn Jackson wrote:
> 
>>I had to change the hostname of my box when I put it on my network (so I
>>could transfer files and encode to xvid for archival purposes) and when I
>>changed the hostname from localhost to mythbox I found that I could no
>>longer use mythtv.
>>
>>Anyone have a suggestion for poor old shawn?
> 
> The hostname is used in quite a few places to identify settings local to the 
> particular machine, which machine a recording is on, etc.  If you don't have 
> anything important in your mythtv setup (recordings you'd like to keep, etc), 
> it'd really be easiest to just wipe the entire database and reconfigure it 
> from scratch.
> 
> If you don't want to do that, here's a list of what you'll need to change in 
> the database:
> 
>  - hostname field in the recorded table (make sure you also re-set the 
> starttime when you change the hostname, else it'll munge up that and you'll 
> have to set it again).
> 
>  -  hostname in the settings table.
> 
>  -  hostname in the capturecard table.
> 
>  -  hostname in the transcoding table.  Well you probably don't have to change 
> this one..  Probably weren't using it.
> 
>  -  hostname in the musicplaylist table.
> 
> That should be all.  Probably could be scripted if someone wanted to 
> contribute a little 'changehostname' script or whatnot.
> 
> Isaac

This seems like an item that should only be entered one time on a config 
page.
Brian



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