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

[Paulgir]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:16:42 +1200, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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

Further information after experimentation: If I boot the myth pc with or  
without
the HDHR powered up it won't work when I record or go to live TV.
Running  will let me scan channels and view with VLC but going
back into mythfrontend it still won't work (after running hdhomerun set up)

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.

Paul