[mythtv-users] accessing 2 BE's from one FE questions

[dennis]

> On your new box, I'd:
>
>     mkdir ~/.mythtv.soon.to.be.retired
>     cp ~/.mythtv/config.xml ~/.mythtv.soon.to.be.retired
>
> In the new config.xml, adjust the following to point at your old box:
>
>     <Host>old-host-name</Host>
>     <UserName>mythtv</UserName>
>     <Password>your-old-host-SQL-Password</Password>
>
> Then, most likely, create a script to start the FE using
> the above e.g.
>
>     . /etc/default/locale
>     export LANG
>     export LC_ALL=$LANG
>     export MYTHCONFDIR=$HOME/.mythtv.soon.to.be.retired
>     exec mythfrontend --quiet --logpath /var/log/mythtv
>
> Adjust as required. MYTHCONFDIR is the important part.
>
> On the new host, start the FE as you do now. Or, exit that
> and run the above script to access the old. You can do the
> same on your old host and allow it to access the new one.
> Just make something like ~/.mythtv.temporary.new.host.access
>

I'm doing similar with access to both a 0.27 & 0.28 backends from one 
frontend.     In the script below, my two backend systems are HTPC and 
POKEY.       In my shell script I use zenity to give me a selection box 
of which system to connect to.  When I launch the program it puts up a 
nice selection box so I can easily connect to whichever backend I want.  
I also modified the desktop file for mythfrontend to point to my 
script.  Works real nice.

ans=$(zenity --list  --text "Choose Backend"  --radiolist --column Pick 
--column Option TRUE  POKEY FALSE HTPC) ; echo $ans
case "$ans" in
         "HTPC")
                 export MYTHCONFDIR=~/.myth.htpc
                 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mythtv/27/lib
                 export PATH=/mythtv/27/bin:$PATH
                 EXEC="/mythtv/27/bin/mythfrontend"
                 ;;
         "POKEY")
                 export MYTHCONFDIR=~/.myth.pokey
                 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mythtv/28/lib
                 export PATH=/mythtv/28/bin:$PATH
                 EXEC="/mythtv/28/bin/mythfrontend"
                 ;;
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