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<body>On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:41:12 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Steve Hodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com" target="_blank">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Paulgir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulgir@gmail.com" target="_blank">paulgir@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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What does make it work is stopping the backend either by starting mythbackend set up<br>
and exiting immediately or by issuing sudo killall mythbackend ,then starting<br>
Myth front end and going to liveTV it is working.<br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>The correct way to stop and start mythbackend is via the mythtv-backend service. eg<br><br>sudo service mythtv-backend stop (or start or restart).<br>
<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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?</div></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>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.<br>
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> I think you should look into why this case is working.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div></div></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br> </blockquote></div></blockquote><div>After the killall command all I did was start mythfrontend so something must have<br></div><div>started mythbackend along with it.</div><div><br></div><div>sudo service mythtv-backend restart does the trick too</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></body></html>