[mythtv-users] running 2 separate FE/BE systems

[Another Sillyname]

On 5 June 2010 15:04, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 6/5/2010 08:39, John Williamson wrote:
>>
>> I have a FE/BE Myth system based around ubuntu 10.04 which is running
>> quite happily and I decided that I would like to have a basic myth
>> functionality on my laptop. So I have a hauppauge dual tuner and have
>> setup a second myth system with the master set to localhost. However as
>> soon as the laptop connected to my network wirelessly, my main system
>> suddenly became a slave to the laptop as master which was annoying as
>> all I intended to do was watch the odd program on the laptop when we
>> were away. As soon as it disconnected from the network everything
>> reverted.
>>
>
> When you set up a backend, you store two settings in the database, the local
> backend IP, and the master backend IP.  When the backend starts (and only
> that one time when the backend starts), it will lookup its own hostname,
> query the IP listed for that hostname, and then query the master IP.  If
> those two match, it will act as the master on that MythTV system.  The ONLY
> way that connecting your laptop to the network could make your laptop the
> master is if you had some script that changed that master backend IP in the
> database, and then restarted the first backend.
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Or you've used the laptop against the 'real' backend at some point and
the settings are still stored somewhere.

Why not hardcode the ip address of the backend rather then using
localhost, that should work.