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

James Oltman cnlibmyth at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 21:37:50 UTC 2009


>
>
>> >     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>
>>
>
I have this same issue.  My HDHR is connected in the same fashion.  How can
I change the startup priority of mythbackend to start AFTER DHCP3-server?
I'm running MythBuntu.

Jim
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