setting up pc client

[fuzzweed]

can you turn off firewalls on both machines completely (rather than allowing apps) to see if this solves the problem.

[rowland]

Well, the problem is currently "solved". I.e. it works but I'm not sure exactly why.

But, while I was debugging the problem one of the things I had tried was turning off both firewalls and it didn't make any difference.

[dljones8053]

My client was working great in 1.3.7 but once I went to 1.3.11 I'm no longer able to setup any shows to record off the Client TV Guide. Everything else works great any idea's???:confused:

[sub]

Reproduce the problem, then post the logs and I'll take a look.

[dljones8053]

Here they are

Thanks sub.

[JavaWiz]

Seems the client sees the db as readonly. Make sure the db share has write priviledges.

Code:

2009-02-23 22:31:54.859 ERROR [1] Unabled to save ScheduledRecording: Attempt to write a read-only database
attempt to write a readonly database
2009-02-23 22:31:54.859 ERROR [1]    at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Reset(SQLiteStatement stmt)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Step(SQLiteStatement stmt)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
   at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da.xc979432fcc5a510a(ScheduledRecording xe41d2b9d98dc1269)

[dljones8053]

That was it thanks, set up my client user full access to the gbpvr share and works like a champ. Weird that the share had everyone with read only permissions, good old MS never figure out why we just have to make it work..:-)

[elbryyan]

I had a slight problem with my client as well because I set PVRX2 to start up automatically when windows started up and it would display the same behavior with the white screen and red X. I determined that the router DHCP was not handing out an IP address fast enough and the client was not able to see the server when it started up. I changed the IP address to be static and that solved the issue. Not sure if this applies to you but just sharing in case it might.

[cosmocat]

I have been having similar problems to Jimi and Rowland in getting PVRX2 to work as a client.
My setup is a little atypical as the server is also going to be a web/mail server permanently connected to the internet so I didn't want to share any part of the C: drive ( call me paranoid). I set the e: drive as a share and put all my content in there with shared folders for music , photos , recordings etc. I put the gbpvr.db3 database file in the shared e:\database\ folder.

I edited the server config.xml file to use the e:\database\gbpvr.db3 database file.

The server was working fine and using the database in its new location.

When I started PVRX2 on the laptop - which is set to be a client, with the servername and database location setup - I got the .net framework errors and red cross through the ap screen as Jimi.

Looking through the recordingservice.log file on the client I saw an error that it could not find \\server\database\config.xml , so the client is trying to use a config.xml from the database share, and not from its own c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\ folder.

I copied the client config.xml file to the \\server\database\ folder and hey presto the client now works.

So if I have multiple pc clients they will all be using the same config.xml file ( the one on the \\server\database\ folder ). This could be a problem where different clients have different graphics capabilities with one using VMR9 another using overlay , or different dvd drive letters. Can each client use its own config.xml file from its own drive ?

[sub]

It only uses the server config.xml for certain bits of info. The rest of the time it uses the local config.xml, including for video/music/photo library directories etc.