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<p>Hi Mike!</p>
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<blockquote type="cite"><pre class="western">> <i>That seems to be the issue: this/my computer does not have any Myth on it (other than notes, etc., </i>
> <i>and that isn’t what we’re looking for). So the (python) script should be looking at the Backend for </i>
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I think you're a little confused here (or maybe I am).
You need to have a python module on the host that is making the request in order to format it into
something that the api on the backend understands.
Normally, you'd get that automatically when you install a frontend on that host.
I though the whole point of this was that the /frontend/ needed to know if the backend was up? If
so, that's where this code should be running. Why are you running it on a non-mythtv host at all?
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Hi Mike!</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I can see your
viewpoint. Here if the Frontend doesn’t find the Backend it (the
FE) displays a screen indicating it is having problems and is
asking
for a button to be clicked to rescan, do manually, etc. By that
time
the Backend has sometimes been off for hours, missing recordings.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">What I would like
to
do is have a warning message pop up on my computer, which does not
have MythTV on it, if something is wrong with the Backend.
Something
like xmessage as it puts a window up; e-mail is a so-so option as
I’m
not always on e-mail.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">The ‘nc -z
192.168.4.3 6544’ command in my initial post works but only if the
Backend is completely off-line. Had an issue where MythTV
partially
hung: I was getting part of the webpage. It was not recording nor
communicating with the Frontends. Big annoyance was I was
literally
sitting with my back to the Backend much of the day, just I didn’t
know there was a problem because no one was watching recorded TV
until that night.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Hope that clarifies
things. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Barry </p>
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