On 1/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">robin</b> <<a href="mailto:robin@robinandmariette.com">robin@robinandmariette.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for all the comments. You are all a great help!<br><br>Is this possible: Have a frontend box with two or more sound cards, with<br>each sound card hooked to a multi-source/multi-zone amp</blockquote><div><br>One instance of the frontend can only be configured to use one sound card at a time.
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have accidentally started the frontend multiple times on the same box, and<br>it didn't seem to have any trouble, but I can't think of a way of pointing
<br>one instance to one sound card and another instance to another sound card.<br>It seems to me they'd all share one config file/database so they would both<br>try to use the same sound card.</blockquote><div><br>There's a few different ways to use multiple frontends with different config parameters. One is to run them as different user IDs, and specify different LocalHostName names in each user's ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt config file.
<br><br>You can also use the MYTHCONFDIR env var to specify a config directory different than ~/.mythtv. So you could start it like (if you're using bash as your shell):<br>MYTHCONFDIR=mythconf1 mythfrontned &<br>
MYTHCONFDIR=mythconf2 mythfrontend &<br>where mythconf1/mysql.txt and mythconf2/mysql.txt have different values for LocalHostName<br><br>It looks like there's also a command line option --override-setting, but it didn't work for me when I tried overriding DBHostName, so it may or may not work for LocalHostName; I can't really try it from where I'm at at the moment.
<br></div><br>-- Tony<br><br></div><br>