[03:15] <stevie_man> I'm wondering if someone can provide me with some guidence. I've been running a Media portal setup (2 frontend and 1 supposed backend) I have been unsuccessful at getting the frontends to connect to the backend for the TV server. I was thinking I might try Myth. I played with a while back and it seemed pretty decent.
[03:16] <stevie_man> The problem I have is the MP frontend work well for videos, movies and pictures right now and I don't want to trow away the working system escpecially with the wife getting used to it
[03:17] <stevie_man> Is there a way I can use a live CD to test mythbuntu connecting to a backend on my Debian 6 server? Superm1 was helping me out earlier but trying to get mythbuntu .25 working on my squeeze box seemed like an impossible task
[03:18] <tgm4883> stevie_man, the frontend on the live cd can connect to any 0.25 backend
[03:18] <stevie_man> so if I can find a .25 deb for the backend server the mythbuntu live cd would work fine?
[03:18] <tgm4883> stevie_man, yes
[03:19] <stevie_man> So if it works then I can use my time to get .27 backend working instead of spending time on something that is likely going to be replaced
[03:20] <tgm4883> yes
[03:21] <stevie_man> tgm4883: great thanks
[03:55] <stevie_man> is there a mythbuntu live cd iso that runs myth .24 still available?
[03:59] <superm1> not that we host - you might find it somewhere else.  another idea you can try to do is to boot your backend on the ISO
[03:59] <superm1> it's possible to configure the backend if you set up a HDD based storage group
[03:59] <superm1> and rename the upstart jobs that gets disabled on the ISO
[04:01] <sabhain> Is it possible to freeze the "DefaultTVChannel" setting to a fixed value so that starting Live TV on a front end will always choose a certain channel / tuner / input?
[08:36] <Jay2k1> sabhain: i guess that if you find out where this setting is stored in the DB and when it is being written, you could use a (hackish) workaround and have a cronjob execute a mysql insert to overwrite it with a channel of your choice if you don't find a way to set it in the frontend
[11:01] <sabhain> Jay2k1: Thanks for the input.  I've thought of that, but have strong desire to stick to a production (.27 fixes) setup.
[11:03] <sabhain> Having an issue where we like to use a tuner which is the sole tuner on a Slave Backend for Live TV.  But if that tuner is in use for a recording, then LiveTV won't start.  It seems that myth won't roll over to another input on the master if it's trying to get LiveTV from the slave.
[14:43] <superm1> sabhain: you can't mess with priorities?
[14:43] <superm1> i could sworn there was a way to set priority on individual tuners specifically for live tv usage
[14:44] <superm1> but maybe it doesn't work on multiple backends like that
[17:25] <sabhain> superm1: I'm playing with it now to try and force a certain input, but it seems like myth's preference is for the FE to go back to the last channel tuned.
[17:26] <sabhain> so the priority thing works for the first time LiveTV is started, but if you exit and go back in .. it sticks to the same tuner.
[17:26] <sabhain> If I could figure out why it won't roll over to a tuner on the master backend, the problem goes away ..
[17:29] <sabhain> pre 0.27 there was a setting to avoid conflicts with LiveTV / Recordings, but as best I can tell, the setting was removed in 0.27.  I "know" it was there in .25 .. pretty sure it was there in .26.  But went to .27 to get away from some of the mythloggrabber bugs.