[mythtv-users] New HD HomeRun problem

[Andrew Close]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, March 3, 2009 12:32 pm, Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Tuesday 03 March 2009 13:15:33 Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>>> At least on my system (0.21) myth uses a broadcast to locate the HDHR.
>>> Maybe once it's up it uses the IP address, but at least for the first
>>> detection it uses the 0xFFFFFFFF ID for the HDHR, which I'm assuming is
>>> some sort of "Hey HDHR, Wake up and tell me where you are" call.
>>
>> How would that work if you had more than one HDHR? I can see potential
>> problems.
>
>
> I only have one....  But myth allows you to put in a specific address.  I
> thought this was an IP address but apparently it's some sort of magic
> cookie coded into each HDHR.
>
> Anyone know more?

it's the serial number on the bottom of your HDHR.  default in
mythtv-setup it will be 0xFFFFFF, but you can specify the actual
serial.  1011014D is mine.  that allows you to add more than one HDHR
to your myth setup.

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Andrew Close