I changed all the address pointers to the new backend and completed the setup including the channel scan.
BUT the frontend wasn't happy.
I knew that the TV drivers worked properly as I have had kaffeine running on it since I installed Linux Mint 20.04. This is the report from # systemctl status mythtv-status:
Can you suggest what I should be checking?● mythtv-status.service - MythTV Status
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mythtv-status.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-07-05 14:28:51 BST; 1h 20min ago
Docs: man:mythtv-status
Process: 12104 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c rm /var/lib/mythtv-status/motd_update_disabled || true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 12106 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mythtv-update-motd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 12106 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jul 05 14:28:50 albury.asandco systemd[1]: Starting MythTV Status...
Jul 05 14:28:50 albury.asandco sh[12105]: rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/mythtv-status/motd_update_disabled': No such file or directory
Jul 05 14:28:51 albury.asandco mythtv-update-motd[12114]: Sorry, failed to fetch http://localhost:6544/Status/GetStatus: 500 Can't connect to localhost:6>
Jul 05 14:28:51 albury.asandco mythtv-update-motd[12115]: Sorry, failed to fetch http://localhost:6544/xml: 500 Can't connect to localhost:6544 (Connecti>
Jul 05 14:28:51 albury.asandco mythtv-update-motd[12107]: Nothing was received from the MythTV Backend.
Jul 05 14:28:51 albury.asandco systemd[1]: mythtv-status.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 05 14:28:51 albury.asandco systemd[1]: mythtv-status.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 05 14:28:51 albury.asandco systemd[1]: Failed to start MythTV Status.
TIA