[mythtv-users] Cloning a frontend

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy, supported way to clone an existing frontend's database
>> settings?  I'm bringing up a new frontend and want it configured just like
>> another frontend, including themes, key bindings, deinterlacers, etc.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
> Something I've tried... but no promises:
>
> -Start old frontend (that you want to clone)
> -Go into settings, give it a custom identifier of "new-frontend" (or
> whatever)
> -Quit
> -Start old frontend
> -Go into settings, change custom identifier back to no
> (blank/unchecked/whatever it is)
> -Start new frontend, but on first start put in that same custom identifier
> ("new-frontend")
>
>
> That seemed to work for most things.  When you change the name to a new one
> it does a copy of all settings on quit.  When you bring up the new one yo
> can then use those settings.
>

Thanks.  This sounds like an excellent approach -- no messing around with
the database in an "unsupported" fashion.  I didn't know about the custom
identifier setting before, which I guess simply overrides the hostname in
the database.

Just to complete my understanding, it seems that settings for old frontends
will stick around in the database forever and never be cleaned out.  Is that
the case?

Jim
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