[mythtv-users] Confused Front Ends

Aaron aaron at rb303.net
Wed Aug 15 16:41:57 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Aaron <aaron at rb303.net> wrote:
> 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?

It seems to be fixed. I changed /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1 gazerbeam
to
xx.xx.xx.xx gazerbeam.domain.name gazerbeam

I made this change on both front ends, and now they both show up properly


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