[mythtv-users] Confused Front Ends

Aaron aaron at rb303.net
Wed Aug 15 15:35:28 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/15/2012 08:20 AM, Aaron wrote:
>>
>> I have a combined FE/BE system (Gazerbeam) and a FE (Everseer). A few
>> weeks back my DB went whacky, I repaired it, but now I've noticed that
>> Myth thinks there is only one front end, Everseer. It used to be in
>> Mythweb that I could play videos to either front end, but this is no
>> longer the case, is there a way to fix this? I do have the host names
>> registered with each system; they are both Mythbuntu. And I also have
>> the front end identifier turned on for each system in the front end
>> preferences.
>
>
> Check your $HOME/.mythtv/config.xml and every single mysql.txt on your
> system to see if one is specifying a LocalHostName override, which uses the
> wrong host name.  Also, on startup, your log files should have a line that
> says what host name is being used for each system.  Check to ensure they use
> different names.
>
> Mike
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I checked the mysql.txt files on both systems, each has their localhostname set
LocalHostName=gazerbeam
LocalHostName=everseer

but... in the config.txt they are nearly identical.
gazerbeam:
<Configuration>
  <UPnP>
    <MythFrontend>
      <DefaultBackend>
        <DBHostName>xx.xx.xx.xx</DBHostName>
        <DBUserName>mythtv</DBUserName>
        <DBPassword>xxxxxxxx</DBPassword>
        <DBName>mythconverg</DBName>
        <DBPort>3306</DBPort>
      </DefaultBackend>
    </MythFrontend>
    <UDN>
      <MediaRenderer>{9480e351-1d3b-4293-9e50-6f39eb7005a</MediaRenderer>
    </UDN>
  </UPnP>
</Configuration>

everseer:
<Configuration>
  <UPnP>
    <MythFrontend>
      <DefaultBackend>
        <DBHostName>xx.xx.xx.xx</DBHostName>
        <DBUserName>mythtv</DBUserName>
        <DBPassword>xxxxxxxx</DBPassword>
        <DBName>mythconverg</DBName>
        <DBPort>3306</DBPort>
      </DefaultBackend>
    </MythFrontend>
    <UDN>
      <MediaRenderer>{5acbede8-dfd1-4700-af3f-68257cb86a0</MediaRenderer>
    </UDN>
  </UPnP>
</Configuration>

(edited out IP and password)

Another thing I noticed is that if I delete the "config.xml" file it
will automatically re-create itself when I launch the front-end. Where
is it pulling this data from?


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