[mythtv-users] Mythweb, --noupnp and the status page

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 24/09/2020 13:32, James Klaas wrote:
> I recently upgraded mythtv on my Buster server to 30.0 from deb-multimedia.
> 
> After I got everything sorted out and working to my satisfaction, I
> discovered that the status page for my mythweb install would produce a
> 404 error. After some searching around I found someone who mentioned
> removing the "--noupnp" option from mythtvbackend flags was the
> culprit:
> 
> https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3737&p=17926&hilit=noupnp+mythweb#p17926
> 
> However, I don't really want my mythbackend to be running a upnp
> server as I rely on other programs for that service.
> 
> Is this a mythtv bug or a packaging bug somehow?
> 
> I didn't see any issues in trac to indicate anyone reported this.
> 
> James

There is an oddity in the status implementation whereby it requires
upnp enabled, despite having nothing at all todo with upnp.

We plan to address this in a large piece of surgery in master.

Regards
Stuart