[mythtv-users] LCD and Mythweb Questions

Jay Foster jayf0ster at roadrunner.com
Thu Nov 13 16:34:07 UTC 2014


On 11/8/2014 2:07 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
> I have just upgraded to a new MythTV machine (combined FE/BE), with a 
> fresh install of mythbuntu 14.04.1 (0.27.4-fixes).  During my checkout 
> and testing period, I noticed that the LCD display did not show any 
> backend status (ie, recording activity).  The LCD does display 
> frontend activity (clock, menu navigation, recording playback, etc.).  
> I checked and the show backend info checkbox was checked in the 
> setup.  After a while, I noticed that the LCD did start showing the BE 
> recording status, so I thought it had fixed itself.  Well I have now 
> done the final DB upgrade from my previous system and moved my storage 
> drives over, but the LCD no longer shows any BE status.  The setup is 
> still showing that option checked.  Any ideas on how to fix this?
>
> The second odd thing is with mythweb.  When I use firefox from the 
> FE/BE system, the channel icons on the listings and recorded programs 
> page are all scaled to the same size and look OK.  When I use firefox 
> from some other machine, the channel icons are not scaled at all.  
> This produces a poor UI.  Some are larger and some small.  Why would 
> mythweb scale the icons sometimes and not for others?  Note, when 
> accessing from the FE/BE system, I use the 127.0.0/mythweb URI, and 
> from other machines the 192.168.x.x/mythweb URI.  I cannot see why 
> that should matter.
>
> Jay
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Anyone have any ideas how to fix mythweb to scale the channel icons?  I 
compared the HTML source from the web browser for the working (FE/BE 
system) and non working (any other system) and they are the same (that 
is what I expected).  How/where are the channel icons suppose to be scaled?



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