[mythtv-users] Switching frontends to different backends failing

[Jim Abernathy]

On 12/19/19 3:47 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> If a backend has a pin of 0000 the frontend will connect without 
> prompting for the pin.
>
> If you have multiple backends on the network, I recommend setting a 
> different PIN in each backend. This will cause the frontend to prompt 
> for a PIN the first time it connects to the backend. After connecting 
> to the backend the first time it stores the pin on the frontend in 
> config.xml and does not prompt again for it.
>
> This way you can make sure it is connecting to the correct backend.
>
That's a good idea.  However, I think I'm going to avoid the whole 
problem by leaving the Shield TV Mythtv-Frontend connected to the 
production backend and use leanfront for my test system. It's trivial to 
switch that back and forth if needed and all I need from the test is 
checking video breakup of the HDHR depending on it's firmware and 
network configuration.

Thanks,

Jim A