[mythtv-users] Rebooting master results in slave not connected

[Andy Sheen]

Mark Boyum wrote on Thu 09 Feb at 20:20 UK time
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Andy Sheen <sheen.andy at googlemail.com
> <mailto:sheen.andy at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I've been running MythTV 23.bugfix on Ubuntu 10.04 for a while
>     now. I'm
>     extremely happy with it but decided to add a slave backend on one
>     of my
>     other computers. It all works very nicely unless I reboot the master
>     back end when the slave seems to appear with the tuners "currently not
>     connected".
>
>     Have I set something up incorrectly - I've done a search but pulled up
>     nothing seemingly relevant? I've waited 30 minutes to see if it would
>     reconnect, but nothing doing. It seems a bit silly that if the
>     master is
>     rebooted, the slave can't reconnect. Any advice?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Andy
>
>
> That has been my experience.  If the master is restarted then the
> slaves will only reconnect if they are restarted as well.
> -Mark
>

Thanks Mark. That seems really painful. OK if you have a network of
dedicated recording devices, but if you've just put a card into the back
of another machine, which is used for other things, I'd have expected it
to be tolerant to machines going up and down. Is there a way to
rebroadcast the announce periodically.?

Andy
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