[mythtv-users] Frontend Control Socket

[Raymond Wagner]

On 8/1/2012 09:31, Jameson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> The defaults only exist if you go into mythtv-setup and configure them.  If
>> you never run it, or you run it and force those fields to be blank, the
>> frontend will decide on its own where it should listen
>
> Ahh...  I see.  This is my first ever FE-only box.  I didn't realize
> that having local backend blank was a valid config.  Thanks.

That field only needs to be populated if you are running a local 
backend, and when I say "local", I mean one running the same machine 
profile as is in use by the mythtv-setup instance.  The machine profile 
currently defaults to the machine's hostname, however that can be 
overridden with the LocalHostName value, found in ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt in 
0.25 or previous, or ~/.mythtv/config.xml for 0.26 and later.