Latest TvOS NextPvr app won't connect manually

[markn62]

Martin, when you say "Yes, I just confirmed that using the login info above 2102 is the PIN the AppleTV is using" do you mean the iPhone not the AppleTv? I'm not using 2102 with the AppleTv login. I'm using 12345678. To save us all confusion, lets pretend the iPhone doesn't even exist.

[mvallevand]

In your recent logs I only saw one login request which I posted above that identified as an iPad and it used PIN 2102

2020-12-06 13:05:34.007 [DEBUG][13] client_ip: ::ffff:192.168.6.3
2020-12-06 13:05:34.007 [DEBUG][13] user_agent: NextPVR/19 CFNetwork/1197 Darwin/20.0.0

I am also seeing a second user agent coming in that never logs in and it uses the same IP

2020-12-06 13:05:34.227 [DEBUG][12] client_ip: ::ffff:192.168.6.3
2020-12-06 13:05:34.227 [DEBUG][12] user_agent: NextPVR/2.1 (nz.co.pinstripe.NextPVR; build:19; iOS 14.1.0) Alamofire/4.8.2

Perhaps sub changes the user agent, and if that is the case your Apple TV is not coming in ant all.

Martin

[markn62]

My iPad is on IP x.x.6.5 and I haven't used NextPvr on that device in a couple weeks. I don't see how a subnet could change a user agent id. I think your correct, the AppleTv is no longer attempting to login at all. That's what the app reports when I try too. It worked earlier this week until a blue dot was next to the app indicating an auto app update occurred. Since then it won't manually connect to the server. Was anything network or login related changed on the latest TvOS app release? Has the latest client version been tested to see if a manual connection still works if a server cant be found on the same subnet? Thanks for working on this.

[mvallevand]

I meant perhaps sub was changing user agents. There are also 3 devices names iPhone, flux and iPad so I think I am better leaving this for sub.

Martin

[sub]

Is 192.168.6.3 the ip address of the Apple TV? Check in it's network settings.

[sub]

In your recent logs I only saw one login request which I posted above that identified as an iPad and it used PIN 2102

2020-12-06 13:05:34.007 [DEBUG][13]   client_ip: ::ffff:192.168.6.3
2020-12-06 13:05:34.007 [DEBUG][13]   user_agent: NextPVR/19 CFNetwork/1197 Darwin/20.0.0

I am also seeing a second user agent coming in that never logs in and it uses the same IP

2020-12-06 13:05:34.227 [DEBUG][12]   client_ip: ::ffff:192.168.6.3
2020-12-06 13:05:34.227 [DEBUG][12]   user_agent: NextPVR/2.1 (nz.co.pinstripe.NextPVR; build:19; iOS 14.1.0) Alamofire/4.8.2

NextPVR isn't explicitly setting the user agent, but there is a couple of different methods it uses for downloading http content (depending of it's an async call or not), and it's likely these methods are just setting the user agent in slightly different ways.

It appears 192.168.6.3 is the iphone/ipad. The current version of the iOS application is 2.1 (build 19), which can been seen in these user agent strings. The tvOS app is 3.2 (build 15).

Have a look in the network settings on the Apple TV, and let use know what it's IP address is. It sounds like you networking isn't able to get from the AppleTV to the NextPVR server.

[mvallevand]

Thanks sub I can see build 19 sort of embedded in those user strings so it makes more sense now.

Martin

[markn62]

Sub, I have already provided an image of the Atv network settings page so nobody has to take my work for it. The focus is strictly on ip addy 6.10 being unable to find the server manually. It isn't a network issue, I can assure you. Martin & Brett have already threshed that out. I am a WISP network engineer & know it well. Thanks for looking into the app code between the latest and prior release.

[sub]

Have you got a PC on that same network? If so, can it open http://192.168.1.10:8866? It could be something like your firewall/antivirus software on the PC blocking network traffic from getting to/from nextpvr.

[sub]

I check the very minor code differences between this and the last release, and there was nothing that would account for it not being able to get to the nextpvr by ip address assuming it was routable. The current release does use a newer version of tvOS SDK, which may have had some impact on network calls, but I'd think it unlikely.