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nzlneil

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MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« on: June 10, 2010, 06:25:29 am »
Hi All

I'm in the planning stages of migrating from MythTV to LinuxMCE. I know that I will have to migrate my current file stores from my custom ones to the MCE defaults, and will have to update host names for the backend/core among other things. I'll try and keep a note of the changes I have made to create a Wiki page for others thinking about the migration.

One thing that I would like to know is, after I have migrated the backend functions from my current MythTV Backend to the MCE Core, can I connect my current Myth Frontend to the new core (once I have updated where it is to find the backend)? Or has there been to many MCE customizations for a standard MythTV Frontend to connect and work successfully?

It would be of advantage to the WAF to initially have a seamless migration (read "she has no idea it has happened") while I tune the backend and get the MD's operational.

Neil

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Re: MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2010, 06:47:33 am »
If you're running MythTV 0.23, you would be able to do this.

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Re: MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2010, 07:01:34 am »
Hi,

I believe every myth frontend can connect to the lmce mythbackend as long as versions are the same.

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Re: MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2010, 07:04:18 am »
Which is what I said, in a different way. We recently upgraded to MythTV 0.23, are you running this on your backend?

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Re: MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2010, 11:44:48 am »
Yea I'm running a 0.23 backend, so by all accounts, should be good for that part of the migration then.

Now to find the time to finish the migration plan

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Re: MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2010, 08:23:56 pm »
I am also interested in migrating from MythTV to LinuxMCE...  I am running 0.22, but will be upgrading to 0.23...

How far did you get in your plan?  Even a brief outline for me as a starting point would be fine.  Just trying to figure out what I may need.

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Re: MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2010, 11:54:58 pm »
Hi All

I'm in the planning stages of migrating from MythTV to LinuxMCE. I know that I will have to migrate my current file stores from my custom ones to the MCE defaults, and will have to update host names for the backend/core among other things. I'll try and keep a note of the changes I have made to create a Wiki page for others thinking about the migration.

One thing that I would like to know is, after I have migrated the backend functions from my current MythTV Backend to the MCE Core, can I connect my current Myth Frontend to the new core (once I have updated where it is to find the backend)? Or has there been to many MCE customizations for a standard MythTV Frontend to connect and work successfully?

It would be of advantage to the WAF to initially have a seamless migration (read "she has no idea it has happened") while I tune the backend and get the MD's operational.

Neil

Well since your running 0.23 already and LinuxMCE-0810 is running that version too there should be no problems at all. You can use your existing MythTV-0.23 based frontends to access just the new MythTV backend running on the LinuxMCE Core...this has good WAF as there will be no visible difference is use.

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Re: MythTV to LinuxMCE Migration
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2010, 09:06:42 am »
Hi,

In this thread http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9346.0  daballiemo
reports unwanted upgrades of the LMCE myth-backend when combined with Mythbuntu.

Is there a way to prevent these?

br mathieu