[mythtv-users] Dumb to "Upgrade"... Re: Program Schedules: working or not? How to (re)configure?

[Stephen P. Villano]

True enough, when one has a major version difference, I've found that FE
won't talk to BE in a way that is understood.
But, if one has mixed components, one can get bizarre behavior, where
parts work and other parts won't work. For the less technically
inclined, it creates a conundrum that is unsolvable.

In that case, they hopefully would come here for guidance.

As for the cheese grater thing, it's an old military saying regarding
the undesirability of certain events and the unlikelihood that one would
actually participate in said events. It's memorable enough that the
listener tends to never forget the point being made.
Another example is when giving a class in water purification or
initiating an IV, I'd mention the visual inspection of the fluid "to see
if there are Sea Monkeys floating in it" to reinforce the necessity of a
step that has been found to be missed in practice by many.
I've had service members come up to me 10+ years after the class and
mentioning the Sea Monkey bit.

On 9/25/13 9:22 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Stephen P. Villano
> <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The simple question is, do you want a mythtv new version recorder
>> talking to your older version backend?
>> Small hint, only if you like to masturbate with a cheese grater. Both
>> are fraught with somewhat equal peril.
> Uh, ok.  I don't have any direct experience with that particular use
> of a cheese grater, but usually mixing mythtv frontend/backend
> versions is a very binary experience.  Either the versions are close
> (e.g. using official 0.27 on the backend, with a 0.27-rc1 frontend)
> and everything pretty much just works, or the versions are not close
> and the frontend will tell you there's a version mismatch and refuse
> to do anything.
>
> Generally, if you've got a heterogeneous network (e.g. MythBuntu for
> your backend, Fedora or even Windows for a frontend) you won't have
> the exact same build of mythtv running on the backend and frontend and
> that's ok.
>
> Eric
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