[mythtv-users] One remote frontend can access Artwork, the other can't.

[Damian]

On 15/04/2016 22:29, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Damian,
>
> Friday, April 15, 2016, 10:56:28 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> This is a strange one.
>> Both of my remote frontend's can connect to the backend and play content
>> (TV and vidoe's).
>> However, one of them displays cover art for videos fine, the other one
>> doesn't seem able to display any!?
>> If I load the frontend from a terminal, and try to grab meta data for
>> individual videos (which I know I shouldn't need to do), I see lots of
>> messages like this in the terminal ...
>> MythCoreContext: Can't resolve hostname:'homeserver', using localhost
>> Any idea what could be causing this?
>> I've got the correct backend IP address in the frontend's setup. And
>> it's obviously connecting to the backend to in the important ways. It
>> just doesn't seem to be able to access the artwork storage groups. Or
>> maybe it's a different problem?
>> On the backend, running ..
>> sudo service mythtv-backend status
>> .. seems to indicate that everything is fine there. And I've tried
>> rebooting both machines.
>> Also, the frontend on the back end machine (3rd fronend) can also
>> display all of the arwork correctly.
>> All of the machines have a fresh Xubuntu 15.10 OS, and are running
>> Muthbuntu 0.27.
>> Where do I need to look next?
>> Thanks,
>> Damian
>> _______________________________________________
> Is homeserver the name of your backend? Then at some place on the
> malfunctioning frontend you have used that name instead of the
> ip-address. Secondly your dns is not properly setup to translate this
> hostname to the ip-address.
> So either find the location where you used the hostname or correct
> your dns.
> Especially check ~/.mythtv/config.xml

Thanks Hika,

Yes, 'homeserver' is the name of the backend machine. I'm sure I set up 
the machine just the same as the other front end, which is working fine, 
but obviously something is wrong. I will check ~/.mythtv/config.xml 
tomorrow.

I've also noticed that malfunctioning frontend can not delete videos 
like the working front end can.

I'm not sure why it should be a dns problem if one of the frontends is 
working fine, but maybe that's be me know knowing my stuff :-)

I'll check the config file when I boot the machines up tomorrow.

Thanks,
Damian