[mythtv-users] MythTV needs to listen on 2 ports

John Moore (Compucom Systems Inc) v-johmo at microsoft.com
Thu Oct 30 19:51:46 UTC 2014


Geoff, Did I miss something about LiveTV?  LiveTV seems to be the issue I am missing right now.  For recordings, I can use PLEX to watch those an it will listen on all network ports.

It seems the killer for me is LiveTV.


John Moore
OSG VM Solutions Team

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of R. G. Newbury
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV needs to listen on 2 ports

On 30/10/14 01:49 PM, John Moore (Compucom Systems Inc) wrote:
> I am sorry, I have no way to prevent top posting.  I can get off the list if you wish.  When I reply, I have no original message showing.  Again, I am a noob here an have nothing to offer, I can leave the users group if you wish.
>
> As far as the Virt NIC idea.  No one has suggested that.  Everyone has suggested allowing traffic from network A to contact the Backend on Network B by changing my router.
>
> My suggestion is allowing Backend server to be directly connected to both networks an internally forward to a Virtual NIC which MythTV is listening on.
>
> If that's what you suggested, then my apologies.  As I have been very frustrated with this.

Your apologies for top-posting are accepted. Having to use Outlook is punishment enough!

I suspect that you are approaching this from entirely the wrong end. You set up 2 subnets to separate or firewall access. Since you have different subnets, so you have assumed that you can/must/will continue that way. Which leads you to presume that you must use 2 IP's for the backend, because your frontends are on 2 different subnets etc. etc. etc.

Mythtv has a structure to do want you want (at least wrt mythtv recordings). It is called Parental Controls.
 From a thread here: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1781989.html
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Issue resolved. The problem was that I didn't understand the Recording Group password functionality and what it is suppose to do. I had thought that the password was associated directly with a Recording Group as seen on the left hand side of the "Watch Recordings" screen. However it isn't. The password is associate with a "Recording Group Filter". Once I understood that, it became obvious that the feature was working as intended. With this correct understanding I've since been able to configure it to achieve what I want.

Correct usage:
 From the "Watch Recordings" screen access the menu and activate the desired Recording Group Filter. Then access the menu again to activate the password for the currently active Filter. Whenever that filter is activated, you will now be prompted to provide its password.

You can within the Frontend's setup, specify which Recording Group Filter should be initially activated when you first enter the "Watch Recordings" screen.

To achieve what I want, I now have two recording groups; Default and Adult. I've put a password on recording group filters "All Programmes" 
and "Adult". There is no password on the Default recording group filter. 
I've configured the frontend to use the "Default" recording group filter on first entry to the Watch Recordings screen. For the recordings that I don't want my kids to be able to view, I ensure the recordings have their Storage Recording Group option set to the Adult recording group. 
For the recordings that I am happy for my kids to view, I ensure those recordings have their Storage recording group option set to the Default recording group.
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This will do what you want wrt recordings without needing 2 different networks. You probably have 2 different networks to separate all sorts of other stuff from non-adult access. That is not compatible with this, since this assumes that all frontends are on the same sub-net with the backend. (Note that the mysql database could be on a different server) I suggest instead, that you move the 'adult' records (tax returns etc) to  storage accessible only with a password protected share, Or move it to portable storage that you can lock up elsewhere. I recently grabbed a Silicon Power USB3 1TB armoured drive for $80.00 Cdn. I paid about twice that for the 1TB drive in the mythbox!

Geoff














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