[mythtv-users] multiple mythfrontends on same computer

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/24/2009 04:07 AM, Erez D wrote:
> i have a computer which runs mysql, mythbackend and two instances of
> mythfrontend (for two TVs)
>
> i work in this configuration for around 5 years...
>
> now that i upgraded to karmic, i had a lot of problems.
> i fixed them one by one, and now i got to the issue of not being able to run
> two frontends on the same computer at the same time
>
> i run directly mythfrontend.real (as two instances of frontend were disabled
> in the wrapper script)
> i run the two instances from two different users, and different
> "LocalHostName" in the users's ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt
>
> it seams that the first instance i run works, the other doesn't.
> the log file i get on the second is:
>
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 mythfrontend version: branches/release-0-22-fixes
> [22594] www.mythtv.org
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 (old)Settings::ReadSettings(settings.txt) - No such
> file
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 Using configuration directory = /home/myth2/.mythtv
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 UPnp - Constructor
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 MediaRenderer::Begin
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 ThreadPool:AddWorkerThread - HTTP_WorkerThread
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 HttpServer() - SharePath = /usr/share/mythtv/
> 2009-11-24 11:06:01.781 MediaRenderer::HttpServer Create Error
>   

Change the service port for the Media Renderer:

master_backend_host_or_ip='localhost'
my_host='setyourfrontendhostnamehere'
my_key='UPnP/MythFrontend/ServicePort'
my_value='6574'
wget -O result.xml
"http://${master_backend_host_or_ip}:6544/Myth/PutSetting?HostName=${my_host}&Key=${my_key}&Value=${my_value}"



Mike