[mythtv-users] what is my database password after restore?

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 23:07:55 UTC 2022


I'm testing how I'm going to migrate my backend to new hardware so I'll not
screw it up when it's time to do it for real.

I built up the new hardware and got the mythtv frontend and backend working
with HDHR tuners.

Next  copied over all my recordings from my production backend to the new
hardware. Then I took a database backup and restored it using the
--drop_database and --create_database options.

With the backend stopped for all this I went in with mythtv-setup and
changed tuners, Video sources, connections, and Storage groups locations.
So I had it working as a combo and ran into problems with remote front ends
like FireTV 4k android mythfrontend.

I found the file with the bind_address=:: needed to be moved to
mariadb.conf.d because of the search order. That allowed the FireTV to
connect using the UPNP search.

But the mythconverg passwords that ended up in all my config.xml files was
the password from the new hardware mythtv prior to restoring the database
from the production backend.

So the $64,000 question is after a restore of the database, what is the
password? the one from the restore file, or the one already in the database?

>From what I see my old production database, where I got the backup file to
restore on the new hardware is NOT the same database password that the new
hardware is using after the restore.

If I can't figure this out, what is the process to change the new hardware
database password to something I can be sure of lik 'mythtv'

Jim A
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