[mythtv-users] Just added 2nd tuner on Secondary backend but it shows as not connected or unavailable?

[Gerry Freymann]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 13:20 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Gerry Freymann <lists at interpool.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>         
>         On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 12:24 -0400, John Drescher wrote: 
>         
>         > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Gerry Freymann <lists at interpool.ca> wrote:
>         > >
>         > >  Hello!
>         > >
>         > >  My second Hauppage PVR-150-MCE TV Tuner card just arrived and I was anxious
>         > > to get it installed in the upstairs frontend/secondary backend so we'd have
>         > > access to the dish in that location (in addition to the tuner card in the
>         > > downstairs frontend/master backend).
>         > >
>         > >  After rebooting, I went into Myth Setup and went to capture cards, new
>         > > capture card and switched it to MPEG-2 Encoder card. The video device field
>         > > was already filled in, it detected the card ok.
>         > >
>         > >  For Video Sources... they were already defined.
>         > >
>         > >  On Input connections, I pointed the antenna source to the antenna input,
>         > > and the Dish source to SVideo-1 input.
>         > >
>         > >  Seemed easy enough.
>         > >
>         > >  Now when I go to the System status screen via the web page I see:
>         > >
>         > >  Encoder status
>         > >  Encoder 1 is local on mythtv and is not recording.
>         > >  Encoder 2 is remote on living-room (currently not connected).
>         > >
>         > >  What's the trick to get it 'connected' and useable?
>         > >
>         > Is mythbackend running on the second box?
>         > 
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         Yes. Here's the output of my ps aux |grep backend command
>         
>         freymann at living-room:~$ ps aux |grep backend
>         root      4844  0.0  0.0   3084   812 ?        Ss   11:22
>         0:00 /usr/bin/system-tools-backends
>         mythtv    6082  0.0  1.8 175928 19388 ?        Ssl  12:05
>         0:01 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon
>         --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>         --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>  
> Check the logs.  Be sure of a couple things:
>  
> 1.  mythtv-setup on the slave backend has the *IP address*of the
> master backend properly populated
> 2.  mythtv-setup on the master backend has it's own IP listed properly
> (not 127.0.0.1)
> 3.  You are *not* running mysqld on your slave backend/frontend.  Many
> distributions include this by default and it can result in you
> connecting to a local database by mistake.
>  
> But most importantly, you should check
> the /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log on the slave to see what it says.

 Thanks guys for the feedback. I did get it going, it wasn't too much an
issue.

 When setting up the secondary backend, there's a screen in the setup
that asks for the IP. Below that it asks for the IP of the master
backend. For some reason I set them both to 192.168.0.2 (the master
backend) when it should have been 192.168.0.3 (the frontend/secondary
backend) and 192.168.0.2

 After I did that and rebooted, I now see:

Encoder status
Encoder 1 is local on mythtv and is not recording.
Encoder 2 is remote on living-room and is watching Live TV: 'The Young
and the Restless' on CHEK. This recording will end at 3:00 PM.

 Beauty! :-)


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