[mythtv-users] new FE setup 'search'/autodiscovery requirements

Lee Whitty lee.whitty at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 15:40:39 UTC 2017


On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:
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>  ---- On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:54:03 +0000 Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote ----
>  > On 18 November 2017 10:25:08 pm Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:
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>  > > I've just installed a new FE running centos & fixes/29 branch via repos.
>  > > Have seen it's a completely new interface from 28.
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>  > > how does the autodiscovery/search part work? the FE is not automatically
>  > > finding the standalone BE.
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>  > > i know i can use the manual setup so it's not stopping me getting things
>  > > working, but i'm just curious on how to get the automatic detection working.
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>  > I believe the auto detection may have been broken recently and only been
>  > fixed in the last week or so. Post the output of mythbackend --version and
>  > someone can probably confirm whether your version falls into the
>  > potentially affected window.
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> well, i cant seem to get the autodiscovery side working but now i've updated the BE to 29, the FE can now connect with manual config.
> if i stop the BE, the FE autodiscovery seems to be using UPnP, which i dont have configured on my network, so i guess this is the bit that i need to look at to configure.
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> fwiw, the centos FE is v29.0-v29.0-28-g5dce69fbb5 (via nux-desktop repos as per wiki) and BE is FC26 with v29.0-59-g61d331c (compiled from git)
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> is there any mythtv specific info on this on a wiki somewhere? be useful to know how to get it working.
> Could be as simple as firewall rules, or could be i'm missing a UPnP daemon, an selinux policy... or something else entirely.
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> i'm quite happy to have manually configured FE's so playing around with the autodiscovery is just a luxury.

If you suspect the firewall, temporarily turn it off by typing run
"systemctl stop firewalld" and test. You may want to disable SELinux
temporarily as well - "setenforce 0".

-Lee


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