[mythtv-users] New HD HomeRun problem
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Wed Mar 4 01:51:07 UTC 2009
ryan patterson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:01 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> If you cannot reserve an address, then reduce the allowed DHCP served range
>> to ONE address, and let the hdhr have it.
>> This does mean that you have to use static for everything else.
>>
>> Geoff
>
> What are you talking about? You can use the MAC address for the HDHR
> in mythtv-setup. You do not need to configure your router to always
> assign the same IP address to the HDHR.
>
Not the last time I looked, using SVN trunk which was about 1 minute
ago. There *IS* an entry field for the hdhr's device ID which in my case
is 1010EA43 while the actual MAC starts with 00:18:DD etc.
Geoff
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