[mythtv-users] Slave backend reboot procedure

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Mar 23 11:00:55 UTC 2019


Hoi Hika,

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 11:55:17 AM, you wrote:

> Hoi Jan,

> Saturday, March 23, 2019, 8:10:51 AM, you wrote:

>> Dear list,

>> A little while ago I moved some of my tuners to another location in the
>> house so that they are closer to the signal source, thereby improving
>> recording quality. In doing so I connected them to a machine which
>> previously was only a frontend, i.e. turning it into a slave backend as
>> well.

>> It seems though that whenever I reboot that machine its tuners aren't
>> regarded as being available (as repported by Mythweb) until I also
>> restart the slave backend (not necessarily the whole machine, just the
>> backend service).

>> Many years ago I also had a slave backend (on a much older MythTV
>> release), and I remember that restarting the slave backend caused its
>> tuners to become available automatically, i.e. without the need to
>> restart the master backend process.

>> I therefore assume that there is something in my configuration which
>> currently breaks this. Any ideas?

> I have the same under 0.27 (Gentoo). I think the slave needs to be on
> when I start the master. But I have never really investigated as the
> tuner on the slave is only there for show. I only use the slave on my
> regular working machine for heavy jobs. I don't think I have ever
> changed anything in this regard from the default.

> I just checked and it shows as 'currently not connected'. I have
> restarted the machine with the slave 1 or 2 weeks ago, I normally only
> suspend it and the master has been running longer. When I restart the
> master I normally do that from the machine running the slave, but it
> could be that last time the slave was not running.

I just checked. Restarting the master didn't change the status.
Restarting the slave did.


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