[mythtv-users] UPnP: only works locally

[Bill Williamson]

On 2/25/07, Karl Hegbloom <karlheg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:51 +1100, Bill Williamson wrote:
> > Short issue:  UPnP only shows up locally.  When I scan for UPnP
> > devices (steps below) using either a linux or windows box Myth doesn't
> > show up.  However, on windows, if I use the Intel Device Scanner and
> > MANUALLY put in the URL then Myth shows up fine.
>
> Make sure that MythTV is listening on the external interface, not just
> on 127.0.0.1.  IIRC, you must use 'mythtv-setup' to configure that.  I
> think you'll find that with the manually set URL, that it finds it and
> gets an initial listing, but none of them will work since it will return
> URL's with http://127.0.0.1:XXXX as the base, reflecting the setting
> mentioned above.

Thanks for the guess, but I already have this working as I'm in a
split frontend/backend system.

Or... is there a specific setting just for UPnP you're talking about?
The only one's I've seen are the Master backend IP, and the "this
server" IP.