[mythtv-users] slave/master interaction

Greg Woods greg at gregandeva.net
Mon Sep 26 01:42:09 UTC 2005


How exactly do slave and master backends interact? Is it true that
mythfrontend running on a slave backend still connects directly to the
master backend? 

If that is so, does that mean that when the slave is using its own
tuner, the traffic has to go from the slave backend to the master
backend, then back across the net again to the frontend? 

If that is not so, then what is the process by which a slave will access
it's own tuner?

The problem I am having now is that I cannot get my slave backend set up
correctly. Mythbackend is running, but it acts like it's not. I use
"netstat" to see that, when mythfrontend is running, it is only
connected to the master backend, and it can only see the tuners from the
master backend. I have redone the whole mythtv-setup process on both the
master and the slave probably a dozen times today, and I still cannot
figure out how to get the slave backend to use its own tuner. 

The install instructions for configuring a slave backend lack the detail
I need to fix this.

I did check, and the ivtv drivers are loaded correctly and it recognizes
the PVR-150. This also worked fine before I had to rebuild my database
this morning. I'm sure there's some secret setting I need to make to get
this to work, but I can't figure it out.

--Greg




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