[mythtv-users] MythTv Android Frontend - Should UPNP be turned off?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sat Jun 1 15:21:50 UTC 2013


On 6/1/2013 11:04 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 06/01/2013 09:57 AM, Don Brett wrote:
>> I'm trying to get my MythTv Android Front end to work and getting
>> "Master backend could not be reached...." error.  On looking around in
>> Mythbackend.log I found port 6544 being enabled, then ... disabled?
>> What did I miss?  Here's the log and nmap output:
>>
>> Jun  1 09:03:26 zedo mythbackend[2086]: I CoreContext
>> serverpool.cpp:395 (listen) Listening on TCP 127.0.0.1:6544
>> Jun  1 09:03:26 zedo mythbackend[2086]: I CoreContext
>> serverpool.cpp:395 (listen) Listening on TCP [::1]:6544
>> Jun  1 09:03:26 zedo mythbackend[2086]: I CoreContext
>> serverpool.cpp:395 (listen) Listening on TCP
>> [fe80::ca60:ff:fecf:2bd%eth0]:6544
>> Jun  1 09:03:26 zedo mythbackend[2086]: N CoreContext
>> mediaserver.cpp:169 (Init) MediaServer:: Loopback address specified -
>> 127.0.0.1. Disabling
>> UPnP
>>
>> don at zedo:~$ nmap -p 6544 --reason 192.168.0.132
> ...
> Hi;
>
> No, UPnP shouldn't be turned off. It looks like your backend is setup with
> a loopback address for the Backend Server IP4 and Master Backend IP.
>
> I suspect you want to use the Private Network address you used in the nmap
> test above.
>

Specifically, go into mythtv-setup->general and set that as the Backend 
and Master IP addresses.


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