mythinstall fest continued (long ramble)

[Bruce Labitt]

I am trying to get my myth setup to run correctly.  I've got a slightly 
different setup than most - so it slightly complicates things.  I'm 
using the HDHomeRun tuner for my OTA connection.  I installed a second 
ethernet card just for the HDHomeRun.  (I had an extra floating 
around.)  Ben helped me set up the dedicated dhcphost just for the 
tuner.  I use a dhcp client connection to my router.  Thanks Ben for 
helping.  I appreciated you flying without a parachute.:)  If anyone 
recalls, I had what I thought to be an IPv6 issue, which turned out to 
be mostly a crappy cable to my router.  (I have not re-enabled IPv6.)

I have managed to get hdvideo running in myth, but have somehow messed 
something up. When I left the installfest, I did not have any audio.  I 
found out that was because no one has developed the drivers for my mobo 
yet (Intel 965WH).  I bought a cheap audio card, the Chaintech AV-710 
for $22, and have since set up FC6 to recognize the board.  It is a 7.1 
card with an optical output.  Using the optical interface to my 
receiver, I get digital sound. 

An aside:  For those of you looking for a cheap source of AV cables, I 
highly recommend http://www.riteav.com/ .  (I have no affiliation.  I 
have bought from them before and found their product great and their 
shipping to be very fast.)  Their prices for HDMI / DVI / TOSlink 
(optical fibre) are the lowest I've found.  3 ft HDMI cable $4.69.  3 ft 
digital optical cable $2.19, 6 ft digital optical cable $2.39. 6 ft DVI 
cable $5.39 .

On topic:  Somehow I have gotten things awry.  When I start the frontend 
it complains of not being able to connect to the backend.  It asks if 
the BE is running.  So first things first.  Should I log in as user 
myth?  Run the backend, run mythfilldatabase.  Then run the front end?  
What should be done normally?  Can a startup script be created? What 
should be in it?

Before I got the installation messed up, it seemed the tuners were 
streaming data when they started up.  Then when I tried to connect to 
them, I got a message that they were busy.  This was after a cold start 
of the computer, but the  HDHomeRuns had been left on from a previous 
session.  So they could have been streaming data - but they hadn't been 
told to start over cleanly?

I think one can tell from this long ramble that I'm confused on the 
subject.  Can anyone get me going again?  Or point me in the right 
direction at least :)