[mythtv-users] New Machine, New Versions, New Distro... advice needed...

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Aug 7 02:47:06 UTC 2013


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Kris B. <krisbee at krisbee.com> wrote:

>
> > I, personally, think that localhost should never be used in any MythTV
> > setup--because it necessarily means you can never add any additional
> > backend, frontend, client (MythWeb or 3rd-party) hosts of any kind
> > (without changing the hostname/IP information).  So, I would recommend
> > you do change the hostname (and IP address!) to something appropriate.
> >
> > That means that after you restore the backup--and *before* you run /any/
> > MythTV application--you would need to do:
> >
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Change_the_hostname_of_a_MythTV_frontend_or_backend
> > and once that completes, you can run mythtv-setup to a) upgrade the
> > database from 0.23.5 to 0.26 schema and b) allow you to manually change
> > the "this server" and "master server" IP address settings to real,
> > routable addresses.
> >
> > > Any advice would be great - very nervous about new OS and mythtv
> > > versions as myth is our only way to watch tv - I don't want to ruin
> > > anything.
> >
> > As long as you have that full backup of the current system, you won't
> > lose everything.  At most, you'll lose things you do after the backup
> > was made (if you end up realizing later that the system is broken and
> > it's easier to go back to the backup than to fix the issues with the
> > broken/upgraded system).
>
> Thanks so much Mike... about to do it tomorrow - finally got machine up
> and running except for the last bit of moving the cards, the database,
> and the drive (though it is shared from the exisitng machine at the
> moment, so it shouldn't matter)
>
> The only little thing I noticed is that the password for the old machine
> for mythconverg is different that this machines... does that matter?  Do
> I need to change on one of the machines, and how?
>
> Thanks again!
>

I tend to chamge the password to mythtv (LinHES uses this as default,
*buntu generates a random password that I can never remember, and is (in
most setups) unnecessary.)

In *buntu you change the password with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common




> --kris
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