[mythtv-users] mythmote Unable to Connect

[Larry Kennedy]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/21/2015 11:10 AM, Larry Kennedy wrote:
> ...
> > I had mythmote working fine on my main FE machine (host A), but now it
>
>> stopped working for some reason.  It connects for like 3-5 seconds and
>> then
>> disconnects.  I've noticed that it works fine on my combination BE/FE
>> machine (Host B), which I think is configured the same way.  Both hosts
>> have the NetworkControlEnabled flag set to "1"
>>
>> Is there a good way to diagnose this?  Log files on the FE I can check?
>>
> ...
>
> You could start your frontend with -v network.
>
> With default (-v general) logging, you may see:
>
>     Client Socket disconnected
>
> but that looks like the result of a problem, not the cause.
>
> You'll also see things like:
>
>  NetworkControl::receiveCommand(key down)
>  BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SYSTEM_EVENT NET_CTRL_DISCONNECTED SENDER
> ofc0[]:[]empty
>
> the 2nd one is a result of a normal closing of the app. But if
> you didn't close it, perhaps it's a local network issue.
>
> I'd fire up Wireshark on the FE that's failing and see what's
> going on:
>
>     wireshark -i ethYOURS -f 'host yourTabletPhoneEtcIPorHostname'
>
> --
> Bill


Bill, thanks for the tip.   I found through logging that I had a stale copy
of mythfrontend running in the background, occupying the network port.
Once I killed this process...success.


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