[mythtv-users] MBE loses tuners in SBE until I enter & exit from Mythtv-Setup

[Clay]

> From: Glen Hawksworth <glenhawk at optusnet.com.au>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] MBE loses tuners in SBE until I enter & exit from Mythtv-Setup
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 2:04 AM
> Hi all,
> this is my first go at using a secondary backend and as
> such I am having
> some difficulties. Apart from the fact that my MBE
> won't automatically
> wakeonlan my SBE, when I power up the MBE it tells me that
> there are
> conflicting recordings because it only has half the number
> of tuners.
> When I finally manually switch on the SBE it can connect
> and watch TV
> but MBE still says conflicts. If I open MythTV backend
> settings and then
> close them again then finally the MBE realises that it has
> more tuners
> available and says no conflicts.

[snip]

Rather than opening mythtv-setup (which, afaik, stops mythbackend) have you tried just stopping mythbackend on the slave and starting it again?

I have to do this to get my SBE cards available. btw, sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop does not stop mythbackend on my slave. I have to open gnome-system-monitor and stop the process there (PW req'd.)