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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:23:12 +1200, you wrote:

>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

That may mean that the firmware in your HDHomerun is an older version
that does not do that command.  It would be worth checking to see if
there is an updated version available for your model.