[mythtv-users] Question about 0.25 upnp auto-configuration

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sat Dec 17 01:52:46 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 19:35 -0500, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> I just noticed in the iPad thread (from a month ago) that Robert
> mentioned 0.25 will have auto-configuration so that you do not need to
> do any setup to connect to the backend. I understood this to apply to
> the frontend too. But the question I had was, how does this behave
> when multiple master backends are detected? If I've got a production
> system and a dev system, how will it choose which one to connect to.
> Initially, I assume it would prompt, but will it remember the previous
> choice and make it automatically in the future? I'd hate for my wife
> to bootup the frontend while I've got the dev box running, get
> prompted, and accidentally connect to it instead of the production
> system.

When you select a backend the selection is saved to your
~/.mythtv/config.xml and ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt files so it
automatically selects those the next time around.

MYTHCONFDIR can be used to select a different .mythtv
director for your development frontends and backends.

-- Daniel



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