[mythtv-users] Remotely monitor Backend is running

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:13:30 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi Stephen!
>
>>> libmyth-python is already the newest version
>>> (2:29.1+fixes.20180414.329c235-0ubuntu3).
>> This will be the problem, I think.  It is libmyth-python 0.29.1, not
>> v30.  So you will need to install the MythTV v30 repository and
>> update:
>>
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/30
>> sudo apt update
>> sudo apt full-upgrade
>
>
>“Funny” how that version 0.29 got overlooked! ..OK, did the correction, 
>rerun python '/home/barry/MythTV Backend 
>Scripts/test-mythbackend_v1_3-101421.py' 
. Well, seems better:
>
>barry at NZXT:~$ python '/home/barry/MythTV Backend 
>Scripts/test-mythbackend_v1_3-101421.py'
>Unable to get BackendStatusPort settings from MythTV database, using 
>defaults
>barry at NZXT:~$

That message means that you did not use the -n option to tell it which
PC to talk to, so it tried to find a database on the local PC to get
the address and port number from.  As there is no local database, it
was unable to connect to it and gives you that message.  Getting that
message means that you have all the required Python modules, so that
is good news.

>Try changing HOST= ‘localhost’ to using the IP address of the Backend
. 
>same error.

I am not sure what you did there - what you need to do is use -n <IP
address> on the command line.