[mythtv-users] Mythweb finds no remote controllable frontends

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/19/2011 04:20 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote:
> I have several frontends with "Network remote control interface" enabled.
> There's no problem controlling the frontend by either 'telnet localhost
> 6546' or 'netcat localhost 6546'.
> Also from a different machine e.g. the backend it's possible to connect
> and control the frontends with 'telnet 192.168.1.61 6546' or 'netcat
> 192.168.1.61 6546'.
>
> But it's not possible to control them from mythweb.
> It tells me that "No frontends allow remote control".
>
> Maybe the problem is that I can't connect from the backend machine using
> the hostname 'telnet htpc 6546'. But I can connect with the exact same
> command from the machine with the hostname htpc.
>
> I have a dhcp3 and bind9 server running on a little board. But I
> couldn't manage to get hostname's resolved with dynamic dns.
> Should I first try to resolve this or may there be different problem?
>

To see if that's the problem, just add a couple of temporary entries for 
the frontend hosts in /etc/hosts .  If you can then use MythWeb's 
frontend remote control, you can submit a patch that changes the MythWeb 
code to use IP address, as looked up from settings--at least for those 
frontend hosts whose IP addresses have been specified by configuring the 
"this" backend IP address in mythtv-setup (which also means you'll need 
to configure the "this" backend IP address in mythtv-setup on all your 
frontend hosts).

Mike