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

Paulgir paulgir at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 05:28:04 BST 2013


On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:41:12 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What does make it work is stopping the backend either by starting  
>>> mythbackend set up
>>> and exiting immediately or by issuing sudo killall mythbackend ,then  
>>> starting
>>> Myth front end and going to liveTV it is working.
>
>
> The correct way to stop and start mythbackend is via the mythtv-backend  
> service. eg
>
> sudo service mythtv-backend stop (or start or restart).
>
>
>
>>
>> Mythfrontend can't watch live TV without a backend - it can only get  
>> the video to display from a backend instance. Is the >>mythfrontend  
>> wrapper restarting the backend?
>
>
> No the frontend wrapper does not start the backend, unless something  
> very radical has changed in mythbuntu. Indeed the user >who runs  
> mythfrontend does not have permission to start and stop services without  
> using sudo and the usual password.
>
>
>> I think you should look into why this case is working.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
After the killall command all I did was start mythfrontend so something  
must have
started mythbackend along with it.

sudo service mythtv-backend restart does the trick too

Paul
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/mythtvnz/attachments/20130424/482fc139/attachment.html>


More information about the mythtvnz mailing list