[mythtv-users] MBE loses tuners in SBE until I enter & exit from Mythtv-Setup

[Clay]

--- On Thu, 2/5/09, glenhawk at optusnet.com.au <glenhawk at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> From: glenhawk at optusnet.com.au <glenhawk at optusnet.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Re: [mythtv-users] MBE loses tuners in SBE until I enter &    exit from Mythtv-Setup
> To: nt4usb at yahoo.com
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 5:03 PM
> > Clay <nt4usb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Glen Hawksworth
> <glenhawk at optusnet.com.au>
> > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MBE loses tuners in
> SBE until I enter & 
> > exit from Mythtv-Setup
> > > To: nt4usb at yahoo.com, "Discussion about
> mythtv" 
> > <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > > Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 2:58 PM
> > > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:30 -0800, Clay wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > From: Glen Hawksworth
> > > <glenhawk at optusnet.com.au>
> > > > > Subject: [mythtv-users] MBE loses
> tuners in SBE
> > > until I enter & exit from Mythtv-Setup
> > > > > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > > > > Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 2:04
> AM
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > this is my first go at using a
> secondary backend
> > > and as
> > > > > such I am having
> > > > > some difficulties. Apart from the fact
> that my
> > > MBE
> > > > > won't automatically
> > > > > wakeonlan my SBE, when I power up the
> MBE it
> > > tells me that
> > > > > there are
> > > > > conflicting recordings because it only
> has half
> > > the number
> > > > > of tuners.
> > > > > When I finally manually switch on the
> SBE it can
> > > connect
> > > > > and watch TV
> > > > > but MBE still says conflicts. If I open
> MythTV
> > > backend
> > > > > settings and then
> > > > > close them again then finally the MBE
> realises
> > > that it has
> > > > > more tuners
> > > > > available and says no conflicts.
> > > > 
> > > > [snip]
> > > > 
> > > > Rather than opening mythtv-setup (which,
> afaik, stops
> > > mythbackend) have you tried just stopping
> mythbackend on the
> > > slave and starting it again?
> > > > 
> > > > I have to do this to get my SBE cards
> available. btw,
> > > sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop does not
> stop
> > > mythbackend on my slave. I have to open
> gnome-system-monitor
> > > and stop the process there (PW req'd.)
> > > 
> > > I had already assumed that this would achieve the
> same
> > > thing but I also
> > > assume that you should be able to configure the
> systems so
> > > that they
> > > don't need to have the backend cycled. That
> is the
> > > solution that I am
> > > looking for.
> > 
> > If I figure it out before you, I'll share the
> info. *g*
> > 
> > My SBE tuners are unavailable when I reboot the master
> (or, is it the 
> > slave... crs is a bitch)
> > g-s-m shows mythbackend running as user mythtv on the
> SBE, not the user 
> > logged in.
> > Kill the instance running as the myth user, and it
> restarts as the 
> > logged in user then all is well.
> >  Surely something I jacked when I installed MythTV. I
> tweaked it around 
> > so I could log in as the original user and still run
> myth. Must have 
> > missed a step along the way.
> > I suppose the solution is figure out how to start the
> service as the 
> > logged in user when it boots, but I've never dug
> that deep.
> > (v0.20.something. Ubuntu 7.04)
> > 
I know there aren't any stupid questions, only stupid people but I have always wondered why there are settings in the backend-setup for waking up the master backend. Now I am wondering if these are the settings we need?! We do after all need to restart the backend to get it to connect, should we put a command in here to restart the backend?