[mythtvnz] Frontend on another computer

[Robert Fisher]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 7:27 pm, Duncan Kennington wrote:
> This suggests you're running a different version of the frontend than you
> have on the backend.   If you have mythweb running, check the Backend
> Status page - the title for this (at least used to before they overhauled
> mythweb in the current SVN) show the backend version, it should be
>
> 0.18.1.20050510-1

No, actually after several hours of hair pulling and suspecting that I had 
really stuffed things up (I was getting the same errors on my main MythTV 
box) I found a post on the Gentoo Forums which got me going on the main 
machine again.

Excerpt below.......

Apparently, MythTV likes to have both options for IP addresses set to the same 
in the general setup, and it doesn't like to host a mythfrontend on the same 
machine if you change the ip to an externally accessible one. Here's why I 
figure this:

I originally had it setup as 127.0.0.1 for both IPs (master backend, and 
backend IP)

Then, since I wanted to run a front end on my desktop machine upstairs, I had 
to change the IP's to the externally accessible IPs (192.168.50.10).
When they are set this way, Myth Frontend on the machine running the backend 
has trouble connecting to itself. However, if I changed the backend IP to 
127.0.0.1 (the bottom option in the mythtv-setup menu), it timed out and 
couldn't connect. On the other hand, if both IPs were 127.0.0.1, it seemed to 
work.

-- 
Regards, Robert

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