localhost:7647 / EPG question

[vitaminman]

Hey,

The other night when installing GBPVR for the first time I must have installed upteen drivers, utilities, programs, configurations, etc. to get everything to work. Now that I've made a system that works, I'm trying to go over my steps to see what worked, why, and write them down so that I can recreate it from scratch in the future in the event that I want to do this to another machine.

In my web browser's bookmarks I have this address added:

http://localhost:7647/gbpvr/Guide.aspx

When I launch it a GBPVR-sponsored (or so it seems) window appears which shows me a channel guide. If my memory serves me correctly, I can replace the number 7647 with the IP address of my router to access my PVR from a remote location to remotely add/remove recordings.

I can't seem to find where I found this site and where I can change my channel lineup, nor can I find any documentation about it. Could someone please me point in the right direction so I can take advantage of this webpage?

Take care,

Nick

[sixgun]

Hi,

The 7647 is the port number that the web server is running on. So you need to forward that port to your GBPVR PC in your firewall setup.

The just go to http://your.ip.address:7647/gbpvr/guide.aspx (or login.aspx)

I use dyndns (http://www.dyndns.org) so i don't have to remember my ip address.

Hope that helps.

Antony.

[stefan]

Try this for info:
http://www.bladerhq.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...Scheduling

[vitaminman]

Hey,

Thanks a bunch for the links and info, it's exactly what I was looking for.

However, I'm a little confused...I'm running my network behind a Linksys router, according to the Status window, the WAN IP Address is 11.222.333.444 (not really, but you get the idea), I'm assuming this is the address I need to put into the web address, so the result would be:

http://11.222.333.444:7647/gbpvr/guide.aspx

If I try to go to http://11.222.333.444, I can login to my router, life is good... but if I go to http://11.222.333.444:7647/gbpvr/guide.aspx, I get the following message:

The connection was refused when attempting to contact 11.222.333.444:7647.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Do I need to set something up in my router?

Take care,

Nick

[Darx-starz]

Hey,

Thanks a bunch for the links and info, it's exactly what I was looking for.

However, I'm a little confused...I'm running my network behind a Linksys router, according to the Status window, the WAN IP Address is 11.222.333.444 (not really, but you get the idea), I'm assuming this is the address I need to put into the web address, so the result would be:

http://11.222.333.444:7647/gbpvr/guide.aspx

If I try to go to http://11.222.333.444, I can login to my router, life is good... but if I go to http://11.222.333.444:7647/gbpvr/guide.aspx, I get the following message:

The connection was refused when attempting to contact 11.222.333.444:7647.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Do I need to set something up in my router?

Take care,

Nick

Are you trying this from inside your network?

[vitaminman]

Hey,

Yes, trying to access both the router (http://11.222.333.444) and the login (http://11.222.333.444:7647/gbpvr.guide.aspx) from another computer in my home network...it seems odd that one would work and the other one wouldn't!

Take care,

Nick

[stefan]

The connection was refused when attempting to contact 11.222.333.444:7647.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Do I need to set something up in my router?

Yes, you'd have to figure out how to configure port forwarding for your router. Somehow you need to tell your router that any incoming requests on port 7647 (or any other, it's really your choice) should be forwarded to port 7647 (that, however is not your choice, it has to be 7647) on the ip address that is your gbpvr server.

Example:
Say your WAN adress is 111.222.111.222 and you want to connect to port 8000 there.
And your gbpvr server is on your local network's ip address 192.168.0.34, then the rule you should setup would be something like:
All incoming on 8000 -> 192.168.0.34:7647
Then you should be able to point your browser to
http://111.222.111.222:8000/gbpvr/guide.aspx and you should be all set.

2 points, though.
1) As Darx-Stars pointed out, it's not sure that your router will allow you to enter the WAN address when you're located "behind" it; you would have to test your setup from a computer that is somewhere not on you LAN. It might work, though, it depends on your router, I think.
2) If your gbpvr box gets its ip address through DHCP from your router, it can change from time to time. You'd have to lock it somehow, or give it a static ip address.

Good luck!

[stefan]

If you want to access from your LAN, you'd have to enter
http://192.168.0.34:7647/gbpvr/guide.aspx if your router is of the kind that won't allow port forwarding from within the LAN.