[mythtv-users] MBE loses tuners in SBE until I enter & exit from Mythtv-Setup

[Glen Hawksworth]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:30 -0800, Clay wrote:

> > From: Glen Hawksworth <glenhawk at optusnet.com.au>
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] MBE loses tuners in SBE until I enter & exit from Mythtv-Setup
> > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 2:04 AM
> > Hi all,
> > this is my first go at using a secondary backend and as
> > such I am having
> > some difficulties. Apart from the fact that my MBE
> > won't automatically
> > wakeonlan my SBE, when I power up the MBE it tells me that
> > there are
> > conflicting recordings because it only has half the number
> > of tuners.
> > When I finally manually switch on the SBE it can connect
> > and watch TV
> > but MBE still says conflicts. If I open MythTV backend
> > settings and then
> > close them again then finally the MBE realises that it has
> > more tuners
> > available and says no conflicts.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Rather than opening mythtv-setup (which, afaik, stops mythbackend) have you tried just stopping mythbackend on the slave and starting it again?
> 
> I have to do this to get my SBE cards available. btw, sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop does not stop mythbackend on my slave. I have to open gnome-system-monitor and stop the process there (PW req'd.)

I had already assumed that this would achieve the same thing but I also
assume that you should be able to configure the systems so that they
don't need to have the backend cycled. That is the solution that I am
looking for.
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