placeshifter first time connection issues

[snoopy]

I am getting the folowing message (attached) when trying to connect to my SageTV machine using a local IP. The information given is rather generic as you can see. Under detailed setup SageTV Server has been enabled and the computer has been rebooted. What now?

[jominor]

Originally Posted by snoopy

I am getting the folowing message (attached) when trying to connect to my SageTV machine using a local IP. The information given is rather generic as you can see. Under detailed setup SageTV Server has been enabled and the computer has been rebooted. What now?

You may be blocking that port on either the Sage server or the client running placeshifter.

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by jominor

You may be blocking that port on either the Sage server or the client running placeshifter.

I'm not blocking any port at all internally. I have no firewall running at all internally and for good measure both 31100 31099 TCP ports are both listed as open on my router. Is there anything else other than starting the SageTV service in detailed setup that needs to be done?

[jominor]

Originally Posted by snoopy

I'm not blocking any port at all internally. I have no firewall running at all internally and for good measure both 31100 31099 TCP ports are both listed as open on my router. Is there anything else other than starting the SageTV service in detailed setup that needs to be done?

Forgive me if this is stupid, but did you enable the Placeshifter server itself?

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by jominor

Forgive me if this is stupid, but did you enable the Placeshifter server itself?

not stupid at all. There are no instructions with the download. I understand placeshifter to be used in place of SageTV client for travel in order to manage limited bandwidth. My only understanding of how to set it up is to:
1) open firewall between placeshifter and SageTV Media Center
2) enable SageTV service to start in the 'detailed setup' part of SageTV Media Center
3) click on the placeshifter and attempt to connect to ip of computer running SageTV Media Center

Upon attempting that connection is where I recieve the error.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by snoopy

not stupid at all. There are no instructions with the download. I understand placeshifter to be used in place of SageTV client for travel in order to manage limited bandwidth. My only understanding of how to set it up is to:
1) open firewall between placeshifter and SageTV Media Center
2) enable SageTV service to start in the 'detailed setup' part of SageTV Media Center
3) click on the placeshifter and attempt to connect to ip of computer running SageTV Media Center

Upon attempting that connection is where I recieve the error.

Have a look at the SageTV PDF manual, Appendix N describes the placeshifter configuration in detail ...

Dirk

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Have a look at the SageTV PDF manual, Appendix N describes the placeshifter configuration in detail ...

Dirk

I have completely lost those options after switching to SageMC and going back to main STV does not give the back to me. The only option is to enable SageTV server but none of the placeshifter options exist.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by snoopy

I have completely lost those options after switching to SageMC and going back to main STV does not give the back to me. The only option is to enable SageTV server but none of the placeshifter options exist.

Make sure you go back and use SageTV3.xml and NOT SageTV3.stv. SageMC has not been updated to use the new settings for Placeshifter and such.

Gerry

[jominor]

Originally Posted by snoopy

I have completely lost those options after switching to SageMC and going back to main STV does not give the back to me. The only option is to enable SageTV server but none of the placeshifter options exist.

That would be it. Try going back to the original STV just long enough to enable the place shifter.

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by jominor

That would be it. Try going back to the original STV just long enough to enable the place shifter.

I have but I have lost the options. Do you have a copy of the correct xml or stv that I need to revert to. I'll try your original as opposed to mine and see what that does?

[ke6guj]

You should still have the correct SageTV3.xml file that you need. The problem is that you were using SageMC, and it didn't have the placeshifter settings. So you reverted back to SageTV3.stv, not SageTV3.xml. SageMC only sees .stv files and not .xml files, so you could not load the proper file.

YOu have 2 options to get the SageTV3.xml loaded. One way is to shut down Sage and edit the sage.properties or sageclient.properties file to have sage use sagetv3.xml. Another, easier way is to make a copy the SageTV3.xml file and name it something like SageTV3reset.stv. By changing the .xml extension to .stv, SageMC and the older .stv files will see it and let you access the newer .xml file even though it has a .stv extension.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by ke6guj

SageMC only sees .stv files and not .xml files, so you could not load the proper file.

Just to clarify: SageMC only sees .xml files, unless you use the (ancient) version SageMC_169.stv from the old base install. The same thing actually happens if you load the old SageTV3.stv ...

Dirk

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Just to clarify: SageMC only sees .xml files, unless you use the (ancient) version SageMC_169.stv from the old base install. The same thing actually happens if you load the old SageTV3.stv ...

Dirk

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I only have SageMC_169.stv installed and tested that it only saw .stv before I posted. I didn't realize that your SageMC addon imports fixed that. I never tried your addon since I didn't care for SageMC, maybe I'll have to see if I like your addons.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by ke6guj

I never tried your addon since I didn't care for SageMC, maybe I'll have to see if I like your addons.

Yeah, you should definetly give it a try ...


Dirk