Plugin: Web User Interface for SageTV 2.2-6.6 (V2.25 18 Sep 2009)

[RayN]

Originally Posted by geogecko

I tried everything to set mine up on 8080. I could not ever get it to work. I eventually switched to 8088, and everything was fine.

How many places within the Sage webserver installation do I have to change 8080 to 8088?

[geogecko]

Should just be one place, in the sage.properties file (make sure you shut down Sage, and Sage service, if using it, before updating the port, or the change will not take effect). Then of course, all your port forwarding and what not. But for Sage, that should be the only place you have to change it.

[RayN]

Originally Posted by geogecko

Should just be one place, in the sage.properties file (make sure you shut down Sage, and Sage service, if using it, before updating the port, or the change will not take effect). Then of course, all your port forwarding and what not. But for Sage, that should be the only place you have to change it.

I changed it in the sage.properties file and now the webserver doesn't work on either port 8080 or 8088

Ray

[RayN]

Originally Posted by RayN

I changed it in the sage.properties file and now the webserver doesn't work on either port 8080 or 8088

Ray

Nevermind! The sage application actually needs to be running for the webserver to connect. I now have it running on 8088.

However, I still cannot connect form outside the sage machine.

[rickgillyon]

Did you specify what machine to forward 8080 to in the router? Might be under "port forwarding", you need to specify that 8080 goes to the Sage machine.

[RayN]

Originally Posted by RayN

Nevermind! The sage application actually needs to be running for the webserver to connect. I now have it running on 8088.

However, I still cannot connect form outside the sage machine.

I was able to connect from another computer on my network by entering

http://192.168.0.106:8088/sage/Home

in my browser. The webserver asked for authentication 3 times before it let me in, but it did. If this works, why can't I connect using

<username>.no-ip.org/sage/Home

from the same computer.

I've got port forwarding and an HTTP virtual server to port 8088 to my sage machine (192.168.0.106) and Dynamic DNS set up.

Sorry for all of the posts but I'm under time constraints

Ray

[rickgillyon]

Port Forwarding only, no Virtual Server, try turning that off. Make sure your Windows Firewall on the server is off.

Try connecting to your External IP without using no-ip, check if the problem is no-ip, i.e.:
http://123.1.1.123:8088/sage/Home

<username>.no-ip.org/sage/Home

You added the port number though?

[RayN]

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

Port Forwarding only, no Virtual Server, try turning that off. Make sure your Windows Firewall on the server is off.

Try connecting to your External IP without using no-ip, check if the problem is no-ip, i.e.:
http://123.1.1.123:8088/sage/Home



You added the port number though?

Rick,

That actually worked -- with or without the Windows firewall. Does that mean that the no-ip service is faulty? What happens if the external IP changes while I'm away? I don't have a method of finding out what it was changed to.

Ray

[rickgillyon]

Give dyndns.org a try, that's what I use, and don't add the port number to the setup on no-ip or dyndns. You have to put it on the address line.

[RayN]

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

Give dyndns.org a try, that's what I use, and don't add the port number to the setup on no-ip or dyndns. You have to put it on the address line.

I set up a dyndns account and I put the following address in my browser

http://<username>.dyndns.tv:8088/sage/Home

and it actualy WORKED!

Thanks Rick and geogecko for your prompt help.

Ray

[jpappas]

Hey All,

I am sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I am not sure how to go about getting help with this problem. I am running Linux (openSUSE 11.1) and have vlc 0.9.8a installed. I have just recently discovered that VLC has turned on enforcement of vlc running as root (See Here and Here on the VLC forums), such that:

sage:/opt/sagetv/server/webserver # vlc
VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root first and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).

As a result, the "transcode" URLs (ie http://sage/sagepublic/MediaFileTran...mux=ts&deint=1) result in the following output:

Exception while processing MediaFileTranscode Servlet:
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program ""/usr/bin/vlc"": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program ""/usr/bin/vlc"": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:431)
	at net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.VlcTranscodeMgr.startTranscodeProcess(VlcTranscodeMgr.java:151)
	at net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.MediaFileTranscodeServlet.doServletGet(MediaFileTranscodeServlet.java:110)
	at net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.SageServlet.doGet(SageServlet.java:82)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
	at Acme.Serve.ServeConnection.runServlet(Serve.java:1501)
	at Acme.Serve.ServeConnection.parseRequest(Serve.java:1476)
	at Acme.Serve.ServeConnection.run(Serve.java:1363)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
	at java.lang.UNIXProcess.(UNIXProcess.java:148)
	at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452)
	... 11 more

As far as I can tell, the only way to bypass/fix this problem is to either:

1. Compile vlc with the enforcement disabled
2. Run SageTV as non-root

Neither option is appealing from a support perspective as I do not want to manage deps for #1 and SageTV Proper does not (AFAIK?) support running as non-root.

Any input here would be appreciated.
jp

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by RayN

I set up a dyndns account and I put the following address in my browser
http://<username>.dyndns.tv:8088/sage/Home
and it actualy WORKED!

How often does your IP change? If it's not very often (mine lasts around 6 months), and your router allows it, tell it to update dyndns every few weeks whether the IP changes or not. If dyndns isn't logged into/updated for a month, it can require you to login to confirm it's still required. my router does it automatically...

[geogecko]

Hmm, that is interesting. I have been using the client application from dyndns. Now I noticed that my new router supports this feature, I may give that a shot, and eliminate another piece of software that has to be installed.

[RayN]

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

How often does your IP change? If it's not very often (mine lasts around 6 months), and your router allows it, tell it to update dyndns every few weeks whether the IP changes or not. If dyndns isn't logged into/updated for a month, it can require you to login to confirm it's still required. my router does it automatically...

I don't know how often it changes--I've not checked it before. I've installed the dyndns updater application. I don't think my router will do it automatically.

Thanks again for your help.

Ray

[Zone99]

Hi,

I'm sure it's buried in the 101 pages of this thread SOMEWHERE but...101 pages is a lot to go through!!

How do I quickly reset the user and password I set when I set the webserver up? I think I'm mixing up my usernames/passwords and I figure it's probably easier if I just reset it.

Thanks.

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by Zone99

Hi,

I'm sure it's buried in the 101 pages of this thread SOMEWHERE but...101 pages is a lot to go through!!

How do I quickly reset the user and password I set when I set the webserver up? I think I'm mixing up my usernames/passwords and I figure it's probably easier if I just reset it.

Thanks.

...\SageTV\SageTV\webserver\realms.properties

# top level userassword
SageTV Web Interface=/sage,useridassword

LOL, okay, that should read:

# top level user:password
SageTV Web Interface=/sage,userid:password

[SageGk]

Can we queue video conversion jobs with this plugin?

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by SageGk

Can we queue video conversion jobs with this plugin?

Yes!

[SageGk]

Originally Posted by geogecko

Yes!

lol, how? I can't seem to find the option.

[geogecko]

Goto SageTV (first menu item at the top) >> Sage Recordings

Find the recording you want to convert, and click on it.

Menu on the left, the third button from the bottom says, "Convert."

You can check the status at SageTV >> Video Conversions.