[mythtv-users] remote frontend connect issues and solutions?

[Bill Meek]

On Friday 15 May 2026 07:27:57 PM (-05:00), James Abernathy wrote:


 > I encounter this issue every time I rebuild my remote backend which 
occurs about every 2 years.  Today I installed Debian 13 XFCE4 on my 
backend and got it working locally in about 1 hour using Mythtv v36.  But 
it took 2 more hours to get the other PCs in the house to talk to the 
remote backend.  Here's what I found out.
 > 
 > 
 > It takes more than a correct bind-address statement the my mariadb cnf 
file.
 > 
 > 
 > At present Debian 13 works with mysql from 11.8.6-MariaDB. I used to 
just make sure that the bind-address= * statement that took affect was in 
the right file.
 > 
 > 
 > But that was not enough in May 2026. I used:
 > sudo grep --recursive bind-address /etc/mysql
 > to find any file with a bind-address statement and make sure they did 
not override the bind-address= * I needed.
 > 
 > 
 > But I also needed a file: 
 > mariadb.conf.d/80-mythconverg.cnf
 > 
 > [mysqld]
 > binlog-ignore-db = mythconverg
 > 
 > 
 > Once I added this new file and restarted mariadb.service my remote PCs 
could run mythfrontend.
 > 
 > 
 > I have no clue what this fixed it but it's working now.  Luckily, 90% of 
my viewing of the remote backend is via Leanfront on a Google TV streaming 
device.


Hey Jim,

binlog-ignore-db had doesn't control binding in any way. Maybe the 
bind-address addition
wasn't followed by a restart.

-- 
Bill