[mythtv-users] Delaying until HDHR tuners are up before starting mythtv-backend

[James]

> On 3 Jan 2023, at 6:27 am, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> When I have my HDHR Quatro tuner connected to my router I'd just use a local-network-pingable service to wait until the tuners were pingable. 
> That works, but to reduce a lot of the network errors I was getting with the HDHR tuners I've been directly connecting them. That's been working great with no errors due to the connection. But I've been restarting the backend manually to make sure the tuners were up.
> 
> You can't use the pingable method of delaying the backend because the 169.254.x.x IP of the HDHR changes every boot. This doesn't affect mythtv-backend because it uses the tuner ID so I need a new method of waiting on the tuners.

Jim I don't know how you do DNS. I use dnsmasq but every router/modem I've seen also allows you to assign a mac address to an IP so you always get the same IP on the same device
James