On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 9:47?AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/9/23 09:24, James Abernathy wrote:
> > Has anyone come up with a shell script to launch mythfrontend and
> > switch between 2 different backends; both on the same Mythtv version.
> >
> > Jim A
> >
> Hi Jim
>
> The deb-light packaging comes with a set of utilities that let you do
> this and much more. You can install multiple versions of MythTV in
> different directories and switch between versions as needed.
>
>
> https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/master/deb-light/Readme.rst#developing-and-testing
>
> You can set up two shortnames for the same version and have them point
> to different backend servers.
>
> Peter
>
I'm installing via the ppa so not sure these would work for me??
What I ended up with turned out to be simple.
I created 2 scripts: mythtv-kubuntu.sh and mythtv-debian.sh. These just
move the config.xml files around. Then I create KDE menu items for each and
put them in my favorites.
cat mythtv-kubuntu.sh
#!/bin/bash
cp /home/jim/.mythtv/config.xml.kubuntu /home/jim/.mythtv/config.xml
mythfrontend --platform xcb --noupnp -O libCECEnabled=0
cat mythtv-debian.sh
#!/bin/bash
cp /home/jim/.mythtv/config.xml.debian /home/jim/.mythtv/config.xml
mythfrontend --platform xcb --noupnp -O libCECEnabled=0
FYI the --platform option is needed because the TV is UHD 4K and the PC is
running Wayland.
Jim A