[mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Mon Jan 10 00:14:10 EST 2005


On Sunday 09 January 2005 11:57 pm, Brad Templeton wrote:
> Right now mythtv is not mature enough to give to people who are
> not sophisticated computer users.   They need help administering it
> from somebody else, and that's why this is a useful feature.

Don't see you doing terribly much to help with that.

> As noted, there is another way to do it, which is to create an X tunnel
> and run mythfrontend on their machine.  However, that will alter the
> cached window size unless you can be sure you have the same one, and
> might have other problems if the frontend is already running.  (Haven't
> tested what happens in that situation.)

Override the hostname in the mysql.txt file, and you wouldn't have that 
problem.  Multiple frontends doesn't really hurt anything, either.

I'd accept a patch to allow configuring the mysql port, too.  Won't spend time 
on it myself, though.

Isaac


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