[mythtv-users] Record on Backend, Watch LiveTV on Frontend?

[Bruce Markey]

Chris Palmer wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote
...
>>You're not supposed to run the setup program -- it's for backends only.  the 
>>Master server address is a global setting, and only needs to be set up once.  
>>All a frontend needs in the way of setup is mysql.txt pointing to the 
>>database, then everything can just be customized as normal from within the 
>>frontend settings.
> 
> 
> oh neat.  is that new?  I thought I had to tell the frontend which master
> backend to use by using that config.  :)

The frontend finds this in the settings table. All the info
the frontend needs is in the database. It only needs the
backend when it requests an available tuner for live TV,
reports a schedule change or, of course, requests a file to
playback. However, a couple other things are requested from
the backend like the delete list where the files sizes are
added.

> I totally forgot to mention the mysql.txt file.  Good catch.  :)  You might
> also need to update your access permissions in your mysql database so that
> your new frontend has access to the mythconverg database.  Since I run a
> secure LAN, I allow the "mythtv" user on any host and not just "localhost"
> to access the "mythconverg" database (my database is on a separate machine,
> so I had to change that from the start).

Another common issue here is to edit my.cnf to comment out
"#skip-networking" to allow network connections.

> still make sure on your backend that you have the real network IP address 
> for your "master backend" and not "127.0.0.1" and you should be good.  :)

Right =).

--  bjm