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

[Paulgir]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:59:50 +1200, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> I'm not sure what is restarting mythbackend after the killall but the  
> reason everything is working after that is because the >networking with  
> the hdhomerun is already established.
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Stephen Worthington  
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>> However, using static addresses will only work if the HDHomerun can be
>> talked to first and assigned a static address in that block.  I am not
>> at all sure it has that capability.  If it does, use the link-local
>> addressing to talk to it and assign it a static address, for example
>> 10.99.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.99.0.1.  Once it has been
>> assigned a static address, it will likely stop being able to talk on
>> the link-local addressing, but would work again once you assigned an
>> appropriate static address to eth0.  To get the HDHomerun back to
>> working on DHCP or link-local addressing if it would not then talk,
>> you would need to use its reset button.
>
> http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/hdhomerun_tech.pdf
> Note that it states that the hdhomerun takes 20 seconds from link-up  
> until it can be  addressed using a link-local address. >That's what is  
> causing the problems for Paul.
>
> I'd also recommend a static address or a DHCP server. Static addresses  
> can be assigned using hdhomerun_config. Get the >hdhomerun working using  
> a link-local address then do:
> hdhomerun_config <old ip> set /sys/ipaddr “<new ip> <subnet> <gateway>”
> e.g. hdhomerun_config 169.254.227.211 set /sys/ipaddr “10.99.0.2  
> 255.255.0.0 10.99.0.1”
>
> To revert to DHCP/link-local addressing do:
> hdhomerun_config 10.99.0.2 set /sys/ipaddr dhcp
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
Thanks for that.
I used hdhomerun_config discover to find the current address,
Then ran: hdhomerun_config 169.254.131.162 set /sys/ipaddr "10.99.0.2  
255.255.255.0 10.99.0.1"
then I got this message: "ERROR: unknown getset variable"

Paul
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