[mythtv-users] Waiting for a HD HomeRun before starting the MythTV backend

[Jay Summet]

Allen Edwards wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jay Summet <jay at summet.com
> <mailto:jay at summet.com>> wrote:
> 
>     My mythtv box uses a SiliconDust HDHomeRun external network based tuner.
>     Every so often (1 out of 5 boots) the network subsystem (or at least
>     DHCP) does not get started up before the mythtv-backend daemon. This
>     causes an error where the mythtv-backend does not find the tuner, so it
>     can not record any shows.
>     [I have my HDHomerun set up with an ethernet crossover cable directly
>     plugged into the MythTv box, which is doing the DHCP setup of the
>     HDHomerun directly, as opposed to having an external home router that
>     does this. I suspect that this is the cause for the race condition.]
<snip>
> 
> Change your IP to static and the problem goes away.  You probably have
> it set to roaming and I am told that if you just change it away from
> roaming it is OK but I didn't try that, I just set it to static.
> 

The IP of my mythtv box is static, as is the IP it assigns to the
HDHomeRun box. The problem appears to be timing/ordering of bringing up
the network interface to the HDHomeRun box (and assigning it a static IP
via DHCP) vs the startup time of the mythtv-backend.

Jay

Jay

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