[mythtv-users] Can I have frontend without installing backend.

Robin Smith 1canuck2 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 21:25:27 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Ramasubramanian Ramesh <rramesh at ti.com> wrote:
> The document mentions briefly about this possibility, but does not provide
> details. I have a debian box in which I like to install only frontend
> so that I can schedule recordings on the master backend that is on another
> machine.  As you can figure out, I am not successful as the fontend says it
> cannot find the backend. I do not know how to tell the IP address of the
> backend so that the debian box can talk to the master backend.
>
> 1) Since the document is a little light on this, I am wondering if this is
> an unsupported feature?
> 2) If it is supported then is it not recommended because of the complexity
> of getting it right?
> 3) Is there a better way to control the backend from another machine instead
> of using locally installed frontend?
>
> Ramesh

What you are trying to do is most defintiely supported. Its the whole
reason for the Frontend Backend architecture.

There may be more to it but, as a minimum make sure your backend is
configured with its real IP, and not localhost (127.0.0.1)

Then you should be able to tell the frontend the backend's IP.

The detailed answers should all be here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Backend
and here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend

Specifically:
MythTV is made up of two major components, the Backend and the
Frontend. If you run the Backend and Frontend on the same machine then
you can leave the setting at its default value of 127.0.0.1. This is
referred to as the local loopback address which is reserved for
networking within a single machine. If you run multiple frontends, or
run frontends over network connections on different machines, then you
will need to set this to the backend machines' static IP address. This
value will be determined by your TCP/IP Network addressing scheme.

and:
If you are running a single combined backend and frontend, then leave
this at its default value of 127.0.0.1. This is often referred to as
the local loopback IP address. If you have multiple frontends
connecting to this backend then you will need to set this address to
the same address as the real IP address eg 192.168.2.11 as it appears
on your network. If you have a DNS Server running on your network you
can just put the hostname eg "MythBackend". Your DNS Server will
translate this to its real IP address.

Good luck

Robin


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