<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">OK, I believe I have narrowed it down to an IP address / localhost issue.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The mythtv-status error message is:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Couldn't communicate with 192.168.1.100 on port 6543:  IO::Socket::INET::MythTV: connect: Connection refused</blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So I did these two tests:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">$ wget <a href="http://192.168.1.100:6543">192.168.1.100:6543</a><br>--2016-04-15 14:40:56--  <a href="http://192.168.1.100:6543/">http://192.168.1.100:6543/</a><br>Connecting to 192.168.1.100:6543... failed: Connection refused.</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">and</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">$ wget localhost:6543<br>--2016-04-15 14:41:43--  <a href="http://localhost:6543/">http://localhost:6543/</a><br>Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.100<br>Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:6543... connected.<br>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... </blockquote><div><br></div><div>So localhost works and 192.168.1.100 (my PC's IP address) doesn't, even though I thought they were equivalent.</div><div><br></div><div>Normally I'd start changing "localhost" to "192.168.1.100" (or vice versa) everywhere I can, but I've decided it might be wiser to try to get the advice of someone who knew what they were doing.</div><div><br></div><div>Can this be resolved more simply (maybe in /etc/hosts?)?</div></div></div>