[mythtv-users] New HD HomeRun problem

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Mar 3 20:32:23 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 03 March 2009 13:15:33 Yan Seiner wrote:
> On Tue, March 3, 2009 12:01 pm, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > Try recycling the power on your ROUTER.
> > Then, make sure that the router has not changed the IP address of the
> > hdhr.
> > Make sure that everything, including the channel standard is properly
> > set on the hdhr....
> > Most likely reason is that the router changed the IP of the hdhr. If you
> > can, reserve the hdhr's IP address by tying it to the MAC, since there
> > is no easy way to contact the hdhr under linux if the IP address keeps
> > changing.
>
> At least on my system (0.21) myth uses a broadcast to locate the HDHR.
> Maybe once it's up it uses the IP address, but at least for the first
> detection it uses the 0xFFFFFFFF ID for the HDHR, which I'm assuming is
> some sort of "Hey HDHR, Wake up and tell me where you are" call.

How would that work if you had more than one HDHR? I can see potential 
problems.

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