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On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 13:20 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Gerry Freymann <<A HREF="mailto:lists@interpool.ca">lists@interpool.ca</A>> wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 12:24 -0400, John Drescher wrote: </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Gerry Freymann <<A HREF="mailto:lists@interpool.ca">lists@interpool.ca</A>> wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hello!</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> My second Hauppage PVR-150-MCE TV Tuner card just arrived and I was anxious</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to get it installed in the upstairs frontend/secondary backend so we'd have</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> access to the dish in that location (in addition to the tuner card in the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> downstairs frontend/master backend).</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> After rebooting, I went into Myth Setup and went to capture cards, new</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> capture card and switched it to MPEG-2 Encoder card. The video device field</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> was already filled in, it detected the card ok.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> For Video Sources... they were already defined.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Input connections, I pointed the antenna source to the antenna input,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and the Dish source to SVideo-1 input.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Seemed easy enough.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Now when I go to the System status screen via the web page I see:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Encoder status</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Encoder 1 is local on mythtv and is not recording.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Encoder 2 is remote on living-room (currently not connected).</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> What's the trick to get it 'connected' and useable?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Is mythbackend running on the second box?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes. Here's the output of my ps aux |grep backend command</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">freymann@living-room:~$ ps aux |grep backend</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">root 4844 0.0 0.0 3084 812 ? Ss 11:22 0:00 /usr/bin/system-tools-backends</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">mythtv 6082 0.0 1.8 175928 19388 ? Ssl 12:05 0:01 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Check the logs. Be sure of a couple things:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">1. mythtv-setup on the slave backend has the *IP address*of the master backend properly populated</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">2. mythtv-setup on the master backend has it's own IP listed properly (not <A HREF="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</A>)</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">3. You are *not* running mysqld on your slave backend/frontend. Many distributions include this by default and it can result in you connecting to a local database by mistake.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">But most importantly, you should check the /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log on the slave to see what it says.</FONT>
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Thanks guys for the feedback. I did get it going, it wasn't too much an issue.<BR>
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When setting up the secondary backend, there's a screen in the setup that asks for the IP. Below that it asks for the IP of the master backend. For some reason I set them both to 192.168.0.2 (the master backend) when it should have been 192.168.0.3 (the frontend/secondary backend) and 192.168.0.2<BR>
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After I did that and rebooted, I now see:<BR>
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<B><FONT SIZE="5">Encoder status</FONT></B><BR>
Encoder 1 is local on mythtv and is not recording.<BR>
Encoder 2 is remote on living-room and is watching Live TV: 'The Young and the Restless' on CHEK. This recording will end at 3:00 PM.<BR>
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Beauty! :-)<BR>
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