[mythtv-users] Help, I've screwed up mythfrontend and Leanfront on my FireTV

[Jim Abernathy]

Yesterday my FireTV worked great on mythfrontend and leanfront. Today, 
big issues.

Here's what has changed. We were mainly using mythtv for watching 
recording late so we could skip commercials. There are no new network 
shows, so we've seen everything recorded on mythtv over the past months 
and deleted them. So nothing on the system. Anything we wanted to keep 
got transcoded to m4v files and moved to a NAS that the mythtv Video 
Storage Group lists , so we can watch the videos.

So this was a good time to rebuild the backend from scratch. No saved 
database; brand new installation. That went well and because the backend 
name and IP is the same, things like Kodi and Leanfront can find them 
just fine. I got all the PC based frontends up and running; no issues. 
Kodi and Mythtv-frontend work perfectly for live TV, recordings and Videos.

Next I got mythfrontend v31.0-79 working on the Shield TV and see no 
issues once the database setting were fixed. But on Leanfront v0-172 I 
can watch recording and videos, but LiveTV regardless of channel plays 
one of my Video file from my NAS, same video no matter which channel.

Now I went to the FireTV 4K and mythfrontend is a mess. Most times when 
you click on a Program in the Guide it will switch to the channel, but 
no video, brief audio then nothing until you get the error: "Video Frame 
Buffering Failed Too Many Times". You also can't play a recording. 
Occasionally you will get some live TV but rarely. Both my old backend 
and new one are v31.

On the FireTV 4K and Shield TV Leanfront play videos and recordings 
fine, but LiveTV plays a NAS video, just like the Shield TV.  If I was 
watching Live TV on a PC with mythfrontend, Leanfront will see that in 
the Live TV list and I can play that, but not if I go to the Channel 
folder and select a channel by channel number.

This makes no sense to me because it worked yesterday on the old v31 
backend and the new backend is V31 with a cleaner database. All my 
Storage Groups point to the exact directories I used before because the 
RAID disks were not touched except to fix the owner and permissions 
since Ubuntu changed what user mythtv's number was.

Any ideas what to do I've tired deleting all the data on the FireTV 4K 
for both mythfrontend and leanfront, but that changed nothing.

Jim A