[mythtv-users] mythtv v29 can't connect remote frontend

[Jim Abernathy]

> On Jan 8, 2018, at 5:07 PM, David Hampton <mythtv at love2code.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 21:36 +0000, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>> Need some quick help here.  I got all my recordings and database 
>> restored on a new V29 backend.  I can use ssh -X to run the mythtv-
>> setup 
>> and make sure thinks are working.  Same thing for mythfrontend.
>> 
>> The problem is when I try to install v29 mythtv-frontend on a remote
>> FE. 
>> It can't find the database.  during install I selected allow remote
>> FEs 
>> and it commented out the bind statement as expected.
>> 
>> I just can't see what I'm missing.  I have the config.xml in .mythtv
>> and 
>> in /etc/mythtv/ symbolically linked.
> 
> Did your distro install a firewall on the backend?  Mysql/mariadb needs
> port 3306 open, and mythtv needs ports 6543/6544/6549/6554 open.
> 
> David
> 

My backend distro is Ubuntu 16.04 Server, so I don’t know about firewall.  I do know that I installed Kodi and Kodi-pvr-mythtv on my frontends and they connected to the backend without a change except for the new IP address of the new backend.  TV is playing find with Kodi.

We just prefer mythfrontend.

I’ll look into the firewall issues

Jim A

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