[mythtv-users] LiveTV & Recordings Not Working

[Nick Morrott]

On 30/09/2008, Bryant Family Lists <lists at bryantfamily.ws> wrote:
> List,
>
>  Hello everyone, I'm a fairly new MythTV user but have followed the mailing list
>  off and on for several years now. I have posted my issue below to the MythBuntu
>  forums since I am using MythBuntu 8.04.1 on all machines in question. I thought
>  i would post here as well, since it may not be a MythBuntu specific issue.
>
>  For about a week, my system has worked perfectly fine. I have a backend only
>  machine and a frontend only machine. Two nights ago, I decided to add a second
>  frontend only machine and share some of it's hdd space through NFS and add it to
>  the Storage Groups.
>
>  Everything worked fine that night. Yesterday, I could no longer connect to the
>  backend from the frontends, but there were no errors in the Backend logs, just
>  the frontend logs saying that it could not connect to the backend, and nothing
>  had changed. After several reboots of everything, I can connect to the backend
>  again. Now, I can no longer view LiveTV or recordings, but I have verified that
>  the backend is still recording scheduled recordings. I have verified that the
>  files also work through VLC.
>
>  Here is the error from the log file on one of the frontends:
>
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.281 RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket): Did not get
>  proper responce from /1024_20080930083000.mpg:192.168.25.9
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.281 RingBuffer::RingBuffer(): Failed to open remote file
>  (myth://192.168.25.9:6543/1024_20080930083000.mpg)
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.288 PlaybackBox Error: Could not open file for preview video.
>  2008-09-30 08:46:28.813 MythSocket(82aa448:31): readStringList: Error, timeout
>  (quick).
>  QString::arg(): Argument missing: RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket): Did
>  not get proper responce from /1024_20080930080000.mpg:192.168.25.9, 6543
>  2008-09-30 08:46:28.813 RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket): Did not get
>  proper responce from /1024_20080930080000.mpg:192.168.25.9
>  2008-09-30 08:46:28.813 RingBuffer::RingBuffer(): Failed to open remote file
>  (myth://192.168.25.9:6543/1024_20080930080000.mpg)
>  2008-09-30 08:46:28.820 PlaybackBox Error: Could not open file for preview video.
>  Destroying SipFsm object
>  2008-09-30 08:50:12.729 Deleting UPnP client...
>
>  This is the relevant messages from the backend logs:
>
>  2008-09-30 08:46:14.279 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2008-09-30 08:46:14.281 adding: Master as a client (events: 0)
>  2008-09-30 08:46:14.282 Bad ANN query
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.282 Unknown socket closing
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.286 Unknown file transfer socket: 0
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.807 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.808 adding: Master as a client (events: 0)
>  2008-09-30 08:46:21.810 Bad ANN query
>  2008-09-30 08:46:28.814 Unknown socket closing
>  2008-09-30 08:46:28.817 Unknown file transfer socket: 0

Make sure you are using the same version of MythTV on ALL backend and
frontend machines. Also make sure you have the correct IP/hostname
settings on all of the machines, as Jarle suggested.

Do you have firewalls running on your machines? Have any of your
machines recently changed hostname/IP?

-- 
Nick Morrott

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