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

[James Abernathy]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 5:42 PM James <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

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> > On 3 Jan 2023, at 6:27 am, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> If I was connected to a router that is what I do.  In this case I'm
directly connecting the HDHR tuner to a 2nd port on my NUC PC. In that case
the HDHR will assign itself an IP of 169.254.x.x randomly on the x's. I
just set up my PC port to a static IP of 169.254.0.1 with a subnet mask of
255.255.0.0. That all works, it is just the delaying function that is
killing me. I guess I could do a delay on the mythtv-backend to wait for a
mythtv-backend.timer to start 1 minute after boot. But who wants to
introduce a race condition.
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