[mythtvnz] Split server setup.....

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:09:45 +1300, you wrote:

>On 02/01/11 15:55, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:52 PM, chris<chris at thebayleys.net>  wrote:
>>> On 02/01/11 11:08, Nick Rout wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, chris bayley<chris at thebayleys.net>    wrote:
>>>>> Hi team, as a new inductee into the mythtv fold I am just struggling at
>>>>> little with my setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a compact media PC as the front end, a decent server armed with a
>>>>> WinTV-HVR-4000 as backend, and a raid5 NAS box serving the NFS file
>>>>> store and MySQL database. So it seems obvious as to configuring the
>>>>> frontend for the database server but I don't see where to tell it about
>>>>> the backend server ?
>>>> Hi Chris, not sure what you are asking here?
>>>>
>>>> You tell the frontend where the database is, the database knows where
>>>> the backends are. in mythtv-setup|general you tell the backend where
>>> Ahh cool, that makes sense...
>>> Will follow that to it's logical  conclusion.
>>>
>>>> Where are you living these days, don't mind spending a bit of time
>>>> helping if you aren't out in the sticks.
>>> Sticks! (Halswell/Taitapu...) be good to have you both round some day
>>> this summer though....
>>>>> Also, it is not clear to me at this time the intricacies of recording a
>>>>> FTA broadcast from the frontend interface using the DVB card on the
>>>>> backend...
>>>> Just tell it to record from the frontend, go to manage recordings and
>>>> follow your nose.
>>>>
>>>>> Is that standard fare ? or does my front end machine have to act as
>>>>> secondary backend ?
>>>> certainly not
>>>>
>>>> what distro are you using?
>>> Mythbuntu frontend, Kubuntu backend,
>>>> The only oddish thing is that you have your mysql server on a
>>>> different machine than the master backend, but that shouldn't be a
>>>> problem.
>>> I was hoping not
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>>> Just Finally got that first pictures through DVB-S after flirting with
>>> firmware and cable troubles.... yeah baby !
>> ahh yes it pays to make sure thats all correct before blaming the system!
>>
>> have you got mythbuntu-control-centre installed? it's a very good tool
>> for *buntu myth systems.
>>
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>Yeah it's very helpful.
>
>couple of niggles at the moment though:
>
>* every time front end starts up it asks for a language preference...

For me, that means that the frontend is starting before the network
connection to the backend is up.  I get it on my frontend/backend box
because I have a network bridge to allow OpenVPN access from the
Internet, and the bridged connection takes several seconds to start.

>* I'd like that when I hit 'back' on the remote from the home screen it 
>doesn't offer to quit....

Just hit 'back' again to get out of that menu.  I find it annoying at
times too, but I do need a way to shut down the frontend.  If you
really want to disable it, go to Utilities/Setup->Setup->General->(6th
screen)Program Exit and set the 'System Exit key' to 'No exit key'.

>* mythtv-setup when it starts it asks for a country and language 
>preference. If I set them and save it offers a mythfilldatabase and 
>exits, but if I cancel the country setup then I get the full setup 
>interface....
>* myth scanning is not picking up channels yet although 'scan -c' does 
>if dvbtune is running. dvbstream works ok.
>
>...just have to keep grinding them down.
>
>cheers,
>Chris