[mythtv-users] Setting up a test environment

[George Nassas]

On 2012-10-11, at 3:52 PM, Richard <peper03 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'd like to set up a second Myth environment so that I can try out various things like playing with the code and basic preliminary checks on new versions.
> 
> How do you handle this?

An unusual but perfectly good way to accomplish the network isolation is to change the ports used by your test system. Normally myth traffic is on ports in the 6000s so make the test system live in the 7000s and they'll never see each other. The port numbers are all stored in the settings table. I assume you're using a chroot on the main box to isolate the executables so that plus a different name for the test system database ought to get you there. Just have one config.xml point to the production mythconverg database and another config.xml for test and you're good to go.

- George