On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 16:20:00 +1300, you wrote: Looking at this page: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust_HDHomeRun_Dual suggests why the HDHR was trying to connect to the MythTV box. It will have been set up to send its infrared remote traffic to the MythTV box, so it will have been trying to set up that connection again.