[mythtv-users] accessing 2 BE's from one FE questions
Mark Perkins
perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 20 04:17:00 UTC 2015
> On 20 Apr 2015, at 12:17 pm, "dennis" <deg at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On your new box, I'd:
>>
>> mkdir ~/.mythtv.soon.to.be.retired
>> cp ~/.mythtv/config.xml ~/.mythtv.soon.to.be.retired
>>
>> In the new config.xml, adjust the following to point at your old box:
>>
>> <Host>old-host-name</Host>
>> <UserName>mythtv</UserName>
>> <Password>your-old-host-SQL-Password</Password>
>>
>> Then, most likely, create a script to start the FE using
>> the above e.g.
>>
>> . /etc/default/locale
>> export LANG
>> export LC_ALL=$LANG
>> export MYTHCONFDIR=$HOME/.mythtv.soon.to.be.retired
>> exec mythfrontend --quiet --logpath /var/log/mythtv
>>
>> Adjust as required. MYTHCONFDIR is the important part.
>>
>> On the new host, start the FE as you do now. Or, exit that
>> and run the above script to access the old. You can do the
>> same on your old host and allow it to access the new one.
>> Just make something like ~/.mythtv.temporary.new.host.access
>
> I'm doing similar with access to both a 0.27 & 0.28 backends from one frontend. In the script below, my two backend systems are HTPC and POKEY. In my shell script I use zenity to give me a selection box of which system to connect to. When I launch the program it puts up a nice selection box so I can easily connect to whichever backend I want. I also modified the desktop file for mythfrontend to point to my script. Works real nice.
>
> ans=$(zenity --list --text "Choose Backend" --radiolist --column Pick --column Option TRUE POKEY FALSE HTPC) ; echo $ans
> case "$ans" in
> "HTPC")
> export MYTHCONFDIR=~/.myth.htpc
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mythtv/27/lib
> export PATH=/mythtv/27/bin:$PATH
> EXEC="/mythtv/27/bin/mythfrontend"
> ;;
> "POKEY")
> export MYTHCONFDIR=~/.myth.pokey
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mythtv/28/lib
> export PATH=/mythtv/28/bin:$PATH
> EXEC="/mythtv/28/bin/mythfrontend"
> ;;
> *)
> $EXEC --syslog local7 -w -geometry 800x450
>
> _______________________________________________
Dennis how do you handle the differences in the database between 0.27 and 0.28?
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