[mythtv-users] How to choose between 2 backends ?

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Mon Apr 9 10:57:09 UTC 2018


On 06/04/18 20:18, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 04/06/2018 12:52 PM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> I frequently run MythFrontend on my laptop, and need a way to switch 
>> between using it with my home server and a local backend and DB, on 
>> the laptop. I currently end up having to manually edit the config.xml 
>> file each time I want to do this. One of these days I'll write that 
>> slick GUI-based backend picker I've been meaning to write :-).
>>
>> It would definitely help if there was an argument to mythfrontend that 
>> could override the IP address setting in config.xml, though.
> 
> Not a GUI, but:
> 
> At least in Ubuntu 17.10, this adds a desktop icon and just clicking on it
> selects my production backend. Right clicking allows selection of
> two other backends. The scripts (Exec= lines) simply set MYTHCONFDIR to 
> unique
> directories that have the proper config.xml settings.
> 

MYTHCONFDIR is definitely what you want.

I use it to keep the configurations for my development (master)
and production (fixes/29) systems separate.


Regards
Stuart



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