[mythtv-users] ports needing passage thru firewall?

[David Hampton]

On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 20:39 -0400, James Abernathy wrote:
> When installing MythTV Combo FE/BE I've always had to disable my
> firewall, firewalld, to get things to work.  I've decided to try and
> figure out what needs to be added to the exceptions.  firewalld had a
> number of zones like Home and Public.  If I set it to the Home zone,
> it has services for cifs, mdns, ssh, etc.  I'd like to create one for
> MythTV.
> 
> I thought that being a combo FE/BE I wouldn't need to pass network
> traffic outside the PC.  My first failure was when the Web App tried
> to find the HDHomerun tuners I added. No tuners were found until I
> disabled firewalld and restarted the backend.

I've always just poked a hole for the HDHomerun tuner.

sudo firewall-cmd \
   --zone=FedoraWorkstation \
   --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="192.168.0.123"
accept'

Not sure how that will get wrapped by email.  It should all be on one
line.  Change the zone name to match whatever you're already using.

David