[mythtv-users] /mythweb/status not working since upgrade to MythTV 0.28

[Mike Perkins]

On 06/07/16 03:26, Will Dormann wrote:
> On 7/5/16 9:44 PM, Will Dormann wrote:
>> However, the first thing I noticed wrong is that when I access
>> /mythweb/status with my web browser, I get:
>>
>>> Warning at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/modules/status/handler.php, line
>>> 32: !!NoTrans:
>>> file_get_contents(http://127.0.0.1:6544/Status/GetStatusHTML): failed
>>> to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found !!
>
>
> Just to answer my own question:
>
> At some point I had disabled upnp via
> /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf
> adding the "--noupnp" flag
>
> I think I had done this after seeing reports that upnp can cause high
> CPU usage.
>
> It seems that starting with 0.28, mythweb/status requires upnp.
> Removing the "--noupnp" flag fixed the problem for me.  mythweb/status
> works as it did with 0.27 now.
>
Forgive me for asking, but why should accessing a website require the presence of upnp?

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Mike Perkins