[mythtv-users] mythudprelay / mythtvosd not working -- solved (sort of)

[Michael Beauregard]

I got the caller id stuff working and I wanted to post a quick summary 
of one thing that snagged me during the process. Everything went 
perfectly well up until the final step of trying to get the 
notifications displayed by mythfrontend. I had the external modem, 
cidbcast, mythudprelay all working fine and yet no osd message was ever 
displayed even using mythtvosd directly.

I found that I had to set the broadcast address when using either 
mythtvosd or mythudprelay to the exact IP address of my mythtv box or 
127.0.0.1 (since everything is all on the same box including the modem). 
I haven't determined why the default broadcast value or any broadcast 
value for that matter wouldn't work. The strange thing is that I ran the 
.NET caller id program (mythnotify-listener.exe, can't remember where I 
got that) on my windows laptop and it was properly receiving the 
broadcasts when my mythtv box wasn't.

Either way, this sounds like a linux network config problem, but I'm not 
sure what to check -- no firewall and *everything* running on one box 
(frontend, backend, modem, mythtvosd, cidbcast and mythudprelay).

Michael