[mythtv-users] Can't connect to remote backend database (again)

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 08:47:58 UTC 2021


On 07/08/2021 23:09, Phill Edwards wrote:
>     Earlier this year I had similar mysterious and persistent atte mpts to
>     connect to the wrong backend.  I was running master.
> 
>     Somehow the UPnP section of ~/.mythtv/config.xml had acquired nested
>     Mythfrontend, DefaultBackend, USN entries.  Resetting the host address
>     worked again after those lines had been commented out. ( <!--   --> )
> 
> 
> Thanks, John. Do you mean the config.xml on the frontend or backend?
> 

IIRC the failure was in connecting the frontend in one of two hopefully 
independent FE/BE boxes, and I changed config.xml there.  But if you 
have several versions and none of them have these extra lines then this 
isn't your problem.  It wasn't clear to me how they got there.





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