[mythtv-users] Extra frontends (problem with scheduling recordings)

[John Pullan]

Great, it all works now.
Thanks for the help

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:06 -0400, Chris Strom wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:33:09PM +0100, John Pullan wrote:
> > I have a main mythtv box which works very well as a combined
> > backend/frontend system. I have now started to try and get my laptop
> > working as a second frontend but I've come across a problem with
> > scheduling recodings from the new frontend. 
> > 
> > Initially when I fired up the guide it said  I didn't have any channels
> > so copied the channels from the master backend. (This seemed a bit
> > strange to me, I kinda thought it would just pick those up ?) 
> 
> Yeah, that was strange.  On your laptop, you need to edit
> /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt to point `DBHostName' to your master server.  Then
> your frontend will query your existing backend database for the guide
> data.
> 
> > I then go into the "guide" and mark a program to be recorded it doesn't
> > seem to be scheduled on the back end.
> 
> Ditto.  You're scheduling it on your laptop's mysql server, not on the
> master backend's database.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
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