[mythtv-users] settings in myth mysteriously changing

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 08/03/2010 04:15 AM, Anthony Desmarais wrote:
> Has anyone else encountered settings on their myth frontend 
> mysteriously changing?
>
> I have the following setup:
> Frontend/Backend machine running in the living room with a static IP 
> address and hostname "gateway"
> Frontend only machine in bedroom also with a static IP and hostname 
> "bedroom"
>
> I have noticed that occasionally the settings on the frontend in the 
> living room are changing seemingly on their own.
>
> On one instance the sound output device had changed - I am not 100% 
> sure but I suspect this was after I was playing with the sound output 
> settings of the bedroom machine.
>
> Today also I found that the living room machine video playback profile 
> had been switched from VDPAU to CPU++. This is very strange since even 
> on the bedroom machine I would have never chose this setting (it is an 
> ATOM based PC).
>
> I am at a loss as to how these settings are being changed.

Sounds like hostname changes pushing your settings to defaults.  Check 
the logs for the line that says what hostname it's using in a 
before/after scenario.

Or, just set a LocalHostName override in (every single one of your) 
config.xml and mysql.txt.

Mike