[mythtv-users] Copy frontend settings to new frontend keeping both

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Oct 24 23:36:44 UTC 2015


Hoi Kris,

Sunday, October 25, 2015, 1:03:54 AM, you wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Kris Jensen <kris.jensen.knj at gmail.com>
> wrote:

>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Mike Rice <mikerice1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Seems like this should be easy but I don't know how to do it.  I
>>> currently have a frontend (hostname=nucfrontend) setup exactly how I want
>>> it.  I bought another machine that I want to put upstairs.  It is almost
>>> exactly the same so I just want to copy the settings from nucfrontend to
>>> the new box (nuci3frontend).
>>>
>>> I can do this:
>>>
>>> mythconverg_restore.pl --change_hostname --old_hostname="XXXX"
>>> --new_hostname="YYYY"
>>>
>>> but it seems to remove the settings for old_hostname (tried it with a
>>> really old hostname I had in there).  I need to keep both.
>>>
>>> I tried the custom-identifier route but I couldn't get that to work.  I
>>> need a different AudioOutputDevice on each.  Changing on one frontend
>>> breaks the other.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Could maybe try to clone the hard drive.
>>
>> That my first thought.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kris.
>>
>>
> Opps.  meant to add:

> Then reboot and rename the new FE.

It's about the settings in the database, which are linked to the
hostname. So you need a query that gets the settings in the settings
table linked to the old hostname and then insert them with the changed
hostname.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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