[mythtv-users] Adding a new frontend to an old mythtv system

[Douglas Sargent]

There is a roundabout way, have you tried Kodi, download it on your phone
and see if it connects to the back end with that version.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Andrew <andrew_mythtv at 16paws.com> wrote:

> I have a suspicion that I know how this is going to go from the google
> searches that I've made, but I'm going to ask anyway because I find the
> expected answer hard to believe.
>
> I have a MythTV system that has been running for 6 or 7 years.  It
> consists of an x86 Debian backend server, with three HDHomeRuns, and a 9TB
> RAID5 fileserver, and one fanless SFF x86 Debian frontend tied to a big
> plasma.  The frontend tells me that it is release 0.23.1, so I assume the
> backend is the same vintage.  I happily use this as my ONLY HDTV viewing
> method, and have done so since 2010.  It works great.
>
> I am trying to add a new frontend box to the system, so I dutifully
> downloaded all the source (0.28), compiled (it took much longer than 30
> minutes, thank you very much) and ran through the wickets to install it.
> Of course, it refuses to work with the old back end because, well, actually
> I can't think of a good "why".
>
> So that was a waste of time.  How does one get a new frontend
> forward/backward compatible with an older backend.  Please don't lecture me
> on the semantics of what is forward and what is backward because it is
> pointless and both apply depending if one is viewing the problem from the
> frontend or backend - I see that is the standard non-answer from the google
> searches I have made.
>
> My constraints: no, I'm not deleting 9 TB of stored programs, nor am I
> interested in risking losing the database for over 1200 recorded programs.
> No, I'm not interested in a solution that requires an entire system upgrade
> of every component simply to add a new one later.  In particular when any
> Linux upgrade means that you're likely to lose hardware graphics support
> because, well, fuck you, that's why.  Years of experience have taught me to
> never upgrade anything in a working Linux system because the result is a
> trail of tears until eventually the hardware is thrown out.  Not every
> Linux user is a college kid with a low end laptop, leaching free wifi at a
> coffee shop, with the attention span of a goldfish.
>
> How does the rest of the world work as expected when new frontend devices,
> let's call them "TV's", continue to be introduced supporting new features
> (NTSC, ATSC, QAM, IPTV, RS170, S Video, component, VGA RGB, HDMI) and yet
> they still work with older program sources?  It seems like an inherently
> reasonable model.
>
> My skills: 35 years software developer, three electrical and computer
> engineering degrees from a first tier engineering school, have
> used/developed on BSD Unix for 35 years and Linux for 10, and a dozen years
> writing drivers and firmware in the Silicon Valley.  So I'm not a noob, and
> yes I checked the FAQ, it was useless for me.
>
> How how can I add an new frontend to my current MythTV system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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