[mythtv-users] 2Backends

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:26:44 +0800, you wrote:

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>> On 6 Dec. 2016, at 10:43 am, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
>> 
>> What is the underlying reason you want to run 0.27 version ? Maybe you can
>> solve the issue and use 0.28 and one backend.
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>I want to make sure 0.28 works fine before swapping, which it does not do!
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>First I’m not silly or naive - I’ve been using and configuring and building from src since 0.18
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>Time to spelunk the src, 
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>(1) my 0.28 frontend keeps displaying, then removing, then displaying again the ‘Cant connect to master backend message’. At all times a mysql -h bla -umythtv -pbla mythconverg from anywhere in the network works. Shutdown of the 0.27 machine has no effect.
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>(2) Play a video fails (there is no antenna on the 0.28 machine so live TV and recording are not tested yet).
>The Video page does show the videos by name, no pictures though, but play on a remote machine says
>Failed to access remote file myth://Videos@bla/whateverName.mpg
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>jam at poohcorner:~$ ls -l /store
>total 24
>drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec  5 11:12 lost+found
>drwxrwxrwx 2 root root  4096 Dec  7 11:28 Movies
>drwxrwxrwx 8 root root  4096 Dec  5 15:59 OwnCloud
>jam at poohcorner:~$ ls -l /store/Movies
>total 88802296
>-rw-r--r-- 1 jam jam 2276717036 Dec  5 14:46 7DMAdmirer12.mpg
>-rw-r--r-- 1 jam jam 1924607700 Dec  5 14:49 7DMAlwaysOnMyMind6.mpg
>etc
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>The 0.28-backend machine *does* play videos on it’s frontend, though wierd in the extreme is to watch a recording with the “Can’t connect to Master Backend” overlaid. After a few seconds it fades, then is redisplayed.
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>Short of trying other hardware I cannot think of a thing to do. I have tried several installs of mythbuntu-16.04.1 this one with no fiddling except to set a root mysql password, set the mythtv password to something sane, and allow 192.168.5.% access.
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>(lest this provokes a storm: my machine has no internet access to it, my wife will not hack my network, and wireless access has a reasonable PSA password, what on earth is the point of bizare passwords?)
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>If anybody has ideas or suggestions, that would be most helpful.
>
>James

Have you done the necessary systemd changes to allow mythbackend to
start up properly for external access?  Is there still a problem if
you stop and restart mythbackend?  If not, then it is not being
started up correctly.

For videos, are you using the video storage groups, or local
directories?  Other frontends will only be able to see videos in the
storage groups.