Network Recorder with Dreambox

[Rayman]

excellent - will give it a try tonight - back to work today after 7 weeks in europe.

and kids back to school

regards
Ray

[Rayman]

Martyn -
no luck - it looks like you took some of the debug out maybe ?

tried with the new file - and the new string - no luck see attached logs -
get a tuner unavailable message and channel was not changing -
Tried with both / and // after the http - no luck.

then had a look in the log and noticed that the ports seem to be the wrong way around -
so I swapped the tuning port to 31344 and the default port to 80.
still didnt get it to work - but the tuning portion did !

it would appear that which port is used where might need some modification

Regards
Ray

[mvallevand]

it would appear that which port is used where might need some modification

You control which port goes where, but I see the problem, it was falling back to the old code. I have you bad instructions it should be

TuningURL and not tuningURL in NetworkRecorder.xml.

Martin

[Rayman]

ok tried with the correct capitalisation - i can see how that would make it look as it did
different behaviour - but still not working -

Tuning command doesnt work (seems to be due to the :: - this occurs whether i define the :80 or let it default)

tries to stream - but nothing on the channel -as it didnt change the channel and it was set to an idle one- then the recording service stays locked as the tuner is in a recording state but getting no data - and shutting it down and restarting doesnt change - as it thinks it has a recording in progress and restarts the recording.

I do a restart of the pc to clear this condition.
Then I preset the dreambox to a valid channel in the knowledge that the channel change wont work ....
still the same -

logs attached - see if it makes any sense

Regards
Ray

[mvallevand]

Oops, that double colon is bad. How about this?

Martin

[Rayman]

still get an "unable to communicate with recording service" and the process is stuck recording.

but looks like theres some usefull exception data.
logs attached

HTH
Regards
Rayman

[mvallevand]

Your server is responding with an authorization error code 401 to this URL

Code:

2012-03-19 23:12:43.743    [DEBUG][6]    http://192.168.0.104:80/cgi-bin/zapTo?path=1:0:1:bc0:3:1000:6180000:0:0:0:

Do you get a 401 error on that URL in your browser? If so perhaps you re-enabled the server's username & password and forgot to put the in NetworkRecorder.xml ?

Martin

[Rayman]

hmm thanks martin - it appears that turning off the password doenst stick through a reboot of the dreambox -
despite the save button being activated -

ok will try again it was late and I should have gone to bed - rather than try a "quick" test.

Ray

[Rayman]

Martin - I get better results when Im awake it seems !

Ok - i had a situation with access to encrypted channels that was unrelated tonight - but doesnt affect results
except that no streaming data arrives for encrypted channels.

first case in logs -
dreambox password OFF.
was able to successfully change to and stream TVSN - unencrypted no probs -
was able to successfully change to and stream encrypted ( but no picture due to no data stream - not your issue)
was able to change back and forth - no problems.


second case
dreambox password ON,
xml changed to include login information
unable to c hange channel and recording session gets stuck requiring restart of the service.

I suspect that the dreambox maintains a session oriented password - as in a browser - once Ive done the password
entry - it doesnt ask it again, on any commands.

So - password not quite right - but I am happry to live without - the rest seems to be working ok.
Happy to test further on the password if you need.

Regards and Many thanks
Rayman

PS - i assume this will filter into the release version?

[mvallevand]

Great. I really didn't give a good job in my sample there was another error I had the username passwork before the protocol, it should be

Code:

<TuningURL>http://[username:password@]##.##.##.##[:port]</TuningURL>

Martin