<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 4, 2007 4:24 AM, William Munson <<a href="mailto:william_munson@bellsouth.net">william_munson@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">R wrote:<br>> I'm a long time user of MythTV and very much appreciate all the hard work everyone puts into the software. I recently decided I wanted a second HD tuner for OTA broadcasts and since I am already using 4 of 5 PCI slots, I decided to try a HDHomeRun.
<br>><br>> While setting it up, I determined that the HDHomeRun used DHCP to get an IP address so I first connected it to my home network so my router would provide the IP address. My MythTV server is connected to my home network via a PCI Gigabit Ethernet card (eth0). Once everything was up and running, I wanted to move the HDHomeRun off my home network. I enabled the motherboard's 10/100 Ethernet NIC (eth1) and configured dhcpd to provide an address to it. After directly connecting the HDHomeRun to eth1 and restarting mythbackend, the tuners were available and working without any other changes.
<br>><br>> Everything was great until my system was rebooted.<br>><br>> Turns out that after the reboot mythbackend reported "device not found" for both HDHomeRun tuners. After manually restarting mythbackend, the tuners were back and working. Thinking that the problem might be related to the second NIC and DHCP, I reconnected the HDHomeRun to my home network, rebooted and found that indeed, the tuners were discovered after the server restart.
<br>><br>> When facing an issue such as this, I figure I'm not the first to experience it and search the internet for a solution. This time, I couldn't find a solution.<br>><br>> Thinking that it might be a timing issue where the HDHomeRun did not yet have an address from my MythTV dhcpd server for the second NIC, I hunted in the code until I found the FindDevice function in libs/libmythtv/hdhrchannel.cpp. I noticed that it tries to "Discover" the HDHomeRun 6 times before reporting "device not found". I modified it to try 60 times to give the HDHomeRun a bit more time to get an IP address. After building and installing the change, I rebooted and found that the HDHomeRun was found by mythbackend after the server restart and my problem was solved.
<br>><br>> I don't know if the problem is unique to my configuration but, if not, perhaps my experience will help someone else.<br>><br>> Richard<br>><br>><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Richard,<br>
<br>I have a similar setup. I have two NICs in my BE and want to hook the HDHR directly to the BE. i have dhcpd installed but i am not sure what to use in the configuration file. My setup gives eth0 a connection to the network and then the internet. eth1 i want to hook directly to the HDHR.
<br><br>Initially i wanted to bridge the two cards so the HDHR would still get an address from my router. I couldnt figure that out so i moved to another dhcp server. After reading i thought i found something saying this couldn't be done.
<br><br>How did you do it? (could you post the .conf file) I think we need a wiki on this. If you could explain it to me then ill figure it out and publish the how to.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Mitchell<br></div></div>