[mythtv-users] remote frontend, MasterServerIP

[Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍]

0.02 -> Leave backend the way it was. Then configure your remote Front
End to work over (compressed) ssh -

http://evuraan.blogspot.com/2007/11/watch-mythtv-remotely.html



On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:13 AM, James Cummings
<james+mythtv at cummingsfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> I have a combined master backend / frontend on one machine and I am
> trying to set up a remote frontend.
>
> I've changed mysql.txt on the remote frontend to point to 192.168.0.35
> (the LAN IP of master backend).  The remote frontend gets things like
> server info, so I can tell it is connecting.  But it wasn't getting
> lists of recorded programs.  So... I changed 'MasterServerIP' for all
> hosts in mythweb from '127.0.0.1' to '192.168.0.35' and bingo, the
> remote frontend could see the programs.
>
> Problem is... suddenly the master backend doesn't list any of the
> upcoming recordings I had scheduled previously when the combined
> frontend/backend was set to localhost (127.0.0.1).  I don't want to
> re-do all my recording rules, nor turn my master backend into a slave
> backend. (This is what the logs said happened when I changed
> MasterServerIP to 192.168.0.35)   I had a brainwave in that I thought
> maybe if I changed MasterServerIP not to an IP but a hostname alias
> say 'mythtv' and then had that in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 on the
> master backend machine but 192.168.0.35 on the remote frontend that it
> might work. Sadly, not so.  Buggers it up for both of them.  So I set
> it back to 127.0.0.1.  This is using up-to-date ubuntu 8.04, btw.
>
> Everything on the remote frontend points to 192.168.0.35 everything on
> the master backend points to 127.0.0.1 ... is there a way to do this
> without a) losing current rules or b) making the backend mistakenly
> feel it is a slave?
>
> thanks for any suggestions
>
> -James
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