[mythtv-users] Installation instructions for mythbuntu 16.04.1

[Jay Foster]

On 12/16/2016 8:20 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
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I'm still running mythbuntu 14.04 LTS, and have no need to upgrade to 
16.04 at this time.  There will come a time when I will need to, so I 
could use some clarification about the changes to systemd.

I have several HDHomeRun tuners, so I need to make mythtv-backend wait 
until they are ready.  However, the proposed changes to wait for the 
network to be up seem insufficient to me.  It is not the network that 
mythtv-backend needs to wait for, but the HDHomeRun tuners.  The tuners 
require an IP address, obtained via DHCP, so it seems that 
mythtv-backend really needs to wait for the HDHomeRun tuners to get 
their IP addresses, which is hard to determine, or at least until the 
DHCP server is running.

I remember on my old 0.21 version, I added an HDHomeRun startup script 
that waited until it could access the HDHomeRun tuners, and changed the 
mythtv-backend startup order to after that to accomplish the wait.  I 
have no idea what 14.04 (0.27) is doing here, but moving on to 16.04 
(0.28, systemd), seems like something more is needed.

Jay