[mythtv-users] beyond the box

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:

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> On 09/15/2017 08:11 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
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> On Sep 15, 2017 3:07 PM, "Peter Bennett" <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> On 09/15/2017 01:05 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
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> Greetings Mythizens, I'm toying with a remote FE, to now everything has
> been in a combined box. The tutorial I see taslk about altering mythtv
> service via Mythbuntu Control Center to allow remote FE's. Is there another
> way to effect this change? Secondly, I'm not certain which port to use
> (default 80) or something found in setup? My attempts with Mythling have
> given varrious error mesages, I assume because of the first  hurdle.
> Thanks Daryl
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> Is this v0.28 or v29?
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> It's 0.28
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> You need to run mythtv-setup on your backend, go into the first option and
> check the ip address settings. Make sure your server IP and master backend
> IP are an externally visible IP address, i.e. not 127.0.0.1.
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Did this

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> Make mysql accessible from other machines. Find your mysqld.cnf file. It
> will be somewhere in /etc, in my case it is in /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf.
> Find the line that says
> bind-address = 127.0.0.1
> and comment it out. Restart mysql.
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could not find "bind address" because I was looking in the wrong file
/etc/mysql/my.cnf instead of /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf Thanks.

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> On your new remote frontend, in the home directory from which you will run
> the mythfrontend, create a $HOME/.mythtv directory. Copy into that
> directory the config.xml file from your backend. Edit that file and make
> sure that the database server ip address is set to the mysql server
> address,  not 127.0.0.1.
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I think the mythling app handles this, but if I use another non android
device this will come in handy Thanks again

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