[mythtvnz] hdhomerun doesn't connect on restart when connected directly to the lan port

[Paulgir]

I'm slowly getting the bugs sorted out. Only two left that I am aware of.
This one is regarding communication with the HDHR.I thought I had it  
sorted on Saturday.
The only way I could get the HDHR to work on ethernet port was to set the  
network connections
ipv4 settings to manual , no MAC address and 196.254.1.10 ; 255.255.0.0 ;  
0.0.0.0 for the ip netmask and gateway settings.
It seemed to be reliable but since a power outage upset things I can only  
get it to work in a haphazard fashion.

in Mythbackend the capture cards screen is set to use the device IDs:   
11111EB-0 / 11111EB-1

I tried the suggestions from Nick Rout in this forum thread :  
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2062279

These are the symptoms: (from the forum post)

" Nothing records and when you go to watch tv it tries to work then boots  
you back to the main menu. Also, the light on the hdhomerun that turns  
solid when it is connected, instead of being solid, continues to blink.  
After running hdhomerun_config and restarting mythtv-backend recording  
works as does watching live tv and the light on the hdhomerun stays turns  
solid green and stays that way until the next time the computer is  
rebooted."

My network indicator says connected and HDHomerun set up talks to the  
device.

The original poster did not mark the thread solved and Nick's suggestion  
won't work for me.

Paul