just an FYI, my slave backend shows up as the 1st tuner device in the tuner list but is still recognized as a slave backend. Tuners 2 and 3 (local master recorders) still take precidence over tuner 1.
On 7/18/05, Alex Brekken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, here's some background info first before I get to my > questions: I'm running a combo frontend/backend machine on FC3 and > Myth 18.1 ATRPM's using Jarod's guide. This box has 1 PVR-250 tuner > card. All is working very well, but I've been yearning for a 2nd > tuner so I decided to setup a slave backend which will connect to a > 2nd cable box (moto 6200) via Firewire. > > So, I've got the slave box setup with FC3 and Myth 18.1, and I opened > up the security on the MySQL DB on the master machine to allow other > connections from my internal network. (per the Myth documentation) > The IP of the master machine is 192.168.0.150 and the IP of the slave > is 192.168.0.160. These are static IP's assigned by the router. > > On the mythtvsetup for the master, I changed both the "this machine" > and "master backend" IP address fields from 127.0.0.1 to the "real" IP > of 192.168.0.150. Fine, no problems yet. Then I go through > mythtvsetup on the slave, and assign the "this machine" field to > 192.168.0.160, and the "master backend" field to 192.168.0.150. Makes > sense so far, right? However, when I start mythbackend on the slave > box, it starts as the MASTER SERVER. What!!?? I've double and > triple-checked the IP addresses to make sure I didn't make a typo > anywhere, but I didn't. My admittedly simplistic understanding of > this is if the 2 IP addresses are different in the setup, then > mythbackend assumes it's a slave, but if they're the same then it > assumes it's the master. The IP's in my slave setup are clearly > different (and correct), but yet it still thinks it's the master. > > Some additional info: Neither of these machines have a real hostname. > Both are localhost.localdomain. This caused a problem for me > initially when doing mythtvsetup because the setup thought they were > both the same machine - each setting I changed would be shared by the > other. I then modifed the mysql.txt file on the SLAVE box, by > uncommenting the LocalHostName field and setting it to "slave." Now, > the setup appears to be correct, except of course that the slave > backend starts up as the master server. (might this initial confusion > have hosed something up?) > > Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'm > absolutely baffled my this. Setting up a slave backend seems like a > fairly straightforward thing, so I'm surprised that I'm hitting this > roadblock. > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Loren H. Burlingame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users