[mythtv-users] Secondary Backend

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Barry Williams wrote:

> Hi guys
> I have had a primary backend running in my bedroom for sometime, I
> have now finally convinced the family to get another frontend/backend
> for the lounge. Both backends have dual tuners in them, which have
> been setup in mythtv-backend and I have set up the one in the lounge
> as the primary and the one in the bedroom as secondary. I have made
> sure that both machines have static IP's.
> Here is how the IP's are set in mythtv-setup
> Primary = 192.168.1.150
> Secondary = 192.168.1.200
>
> Primary mythtv-setup
> localbackend ip = 192.168.1.150
> primary backend = 192.168.1.150
>
> secondary mythtv-setup
> loca backend = 192.168.1.200
> primary backend = 192.168.1.150
>
> mysql is accessible from the secondary backend and I have edited
> mysql.txt with the DBHostName=192.168.1.150.
>
> The recordings on the primary show up on the secondary, but my
> additional tuners from the secondary do not show up.
>
> I made sure to shutdown both backends, start the primary then the  
> secondary.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated

Log files of each backend will tell you what's wrong.