Planet Replay

WiRNS 2.0 & Win7 - CA and IVS on 5504

gsulliva — Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:34 pm

Author: gsulliva

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:34 pm

[quote="hdonzis"][url=http://replayguide.sourceforge.net/rtv5504/index.html]These[/url] instructions are still basically correct. What you'll want to do is to download WiRNS 2.0 and install it, and after get through the configuration phase you'll want to perform an upgrade first thing. The plugins listed on that page are already part of WiRNS 2.0. You should already have the shell commands cofigured that you need (although, I think you only need that one time, so you might not even need those). And, you don't need the Perl scripts unless you don't want to leave WiRNS running 24/7. If don't want to leave WiRNS running 24/7, you can either stick with your Perl scripts or configure WiRNS itself to tell the RTV when to net connect. I think that there's a shell configuration that you need to set to tell the RTV to only use the time that WiRNS tells it when it is Ethernet connected...

Henry[/quote]

There seems to be proxy settings now in the WiRNS 2.0 config screen, do I need to be worried about these settings?

Thanks for the help

Error: NOT a ReplayTV Disk --> RTP 4040

hdonzis — Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:42 pm

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:42 pm

I replied on SourceForge as well, but you seemed to have given more details here...

If Disk 1 is a USB drive and Disk 0 is your 4040 hard drive, where is your Windows drive?

Normally, if RTVPatch says that it doesn't recognize the drive as a ReplayTV disk, that means that you allowed Windows Disk Management to manage the drive, which basically destroys it being a ReplayTV disk. However, since you say that it works fine after you put it back in the 4040, I would have to assume that's not the case. So, the question is how did you connect the ReplayTV disk into the PC?

You don't need to use the 40GB drive in any way in order to upgrade the drive. I don't know if Disk 1 is the new drive that you want to use to upgrade to. However, step by step instructions for replacing the ReplayTV hard drive are right here. Of course, you'll want to use the 4K image, Aug2-4000-4.3.zip...

Henry

something strange going on with wirns/jit

hdonzis — Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:36 pm

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:36 pm

You're welcome!

Henry

WiRNS day #1...overwhelmed for sure...but why one RED BOX?

hdonzis — Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:07 am

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:07 am

Most of the WiRNS settings are in the Windows registry, so that's why most of them survived. Your Replay configurations, however, were in the database, so those would have to be restored. For example, your one Poopli Replay would need to be reconfigured to update Poopli, or else you'd have to go back to manually running the Poopli updater on your Laptop...

If the reason that you were downloading shows was because you have that configured in WiRNS, then it will start downloading all the shows again tonight at 11:00 PM...

As I showed you and explained to you, the value of the guide data even if you are connecting the Replays to the "mother ship" is so you can check recording schedules and remotely schedule and edit show recordings...

Glad you're happy!

Henry

Connection Woes

fbreshears — Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:55 am

Author: fbreshears

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:55 am

It appears you've isolated the problem to being the fault of the replay. One thing you didn't mention doing was connecting the 'good' replay to network in place of the 'bad' replay. If it works with that connection then it must be a replay problem of some sort. You should also compare the network settings of the two replays to be sure they are correct.

I'm not a 4K owner so I can't offer much more advice but I do offer a sympathetic ear.

Having WiRNS problems

John-D — Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:00 am

Author: John-D

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:00 am

Well, thanks for the suggestion..... One of these days my financies will reverse again (Even number reversals are a good thing) and I'll subscribe to Sat-TV and solve the problem the easy way.

Western Digital AVJB Drives

hdonzis — Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:26 am

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:26 am

Since I had a very hard time finding it, the reference to 500GB on this forum is here and the 250GB on AVSForum is here...

Henry

1 X 5040 (w/ lifetime) & 2 X 5504 for sale

rpk113 — Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:25 am

Author: rpk113

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:25 am

i've moved to the other side (tivo/fios that is) $100 obo... gets them. (buyers pays for shipping) I can offer pick up if you are in the NY Tri-State area..

<sigh> WiRNS crashes, no longer serving guide data

hdonzis — Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:16 pm

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:16 pm

sixt7gt350 wrote:

Yes, that UDP line shows up in netstat.

WiRNS log during net connect:

[3/2/2010 21:08:13] [DNS] Returning 192.168.0.36 for production.replaytv.net to 192.168.0.37
[3/2/2010 21:08:15] [PLUGIN] LoginAuthLogout Proxying Login
[3/2/2010 21:08:17] [PLUGIN] LoginAuthLogout Processing Servers
[3/2/2010 21:08:18] [DNS] Returning 192.168.0.36 for ntp-production.replaytv.net to 192.168.0.37
[3/2/2010 21:09:20] [PLUGIN] LoginAuthLogout Proxying Logout

If WiRNS was catching the time request by the unit, after the DNS for ntp you should have seen a request for the time. Something like:

[3/2/10 04:21:44] [DNS] Returning 192.168.0.36 for ntp-production.replaytv.net to 192.168.0.37
[3/2/10 04:21:45] [NTP] Proxying request to ntp-production.replaytv.net

Just because you have a listen on port 123 doesn't mean that WiRNS is the one getting it. Have you checked to make sure that WiRNS was able to stop the Windows Time Service?

For example, when WiRNS isn't running, using "netstat -anb" would show something like:

Code:

UDP 192.168.0.36:123 *:* 1232
c:\windows\system32\WS2_32.dll
c:\windows\system32\w32time.dll
ntdll.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
[svchost.exe]

But, when WiRNS is running, it should show WiRNS as the application listening on port 123...

Henry

strange MSN_XMLTV error

hdonzis — Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:26 pm

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:26 pm

Thanks, Lava! That makes a lot of sense!

I think it may be possible to also change the WiRNS service properties to have it log on with Admin privileges so that then the process it spawns will also have these permissions. Although, it seems strange that WiRNS can obviously access registry keys to get its own information, but that the spawned scraper cannot. Maybe it is a matter of what particular registry keys it has permission?

Henry

XMLTV Web Scraper Support / Instructions

rmeden — Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:10 pm

Author: rmeden

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:10 pm

mc2xml violates Microsoft's Media Center data download terms of service, so it's questionable if it's illegal, immoral, or fattening.

(I don't want to start a debate on it, just raising the issue for folks to decide)

Robert

Unable to contact remote unit message

hdonzis — Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:20 am

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:20 am

So, what about the "List of PCs" configuration? That sounded promising...

Looking for fixed addresses isn't the way to go. As documented, fixed addresses aren't the job of the router. DHCP reservations is what you are looking for...

There are definitely routers out there that don't support DHCP reservations. They don't always call it DHCP reservations, so that's why your thing about "List of PCs" sounded like it might be what you are looking for...

If your router doesn't support DHCP reservations in any way, then there are some other work arounds:

1. If your router supports different firmwares, see if you can find one that supports DHCP reservations...

2. Set your lease time to at least 16 days. The ReplayTV reboots every 7 - 8 days and the lease needs to be twice the reboot time cycle...

3. Turn off the DHCP server and use fixed IP addresses for everything. This will make the ReplayTVs take a little longer to boot because they aways search out a DHCP server even when they are configured for a fixed IP address...

4. Turn off the router's DHCP server and run a software DHCP server on some other 24/7 machine...

5. Buy a different router that supports DHCP reservations...

Henry

DVarchive slowly lose connection speed failed export of file

Jeff90620 — Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:40 am

Author: Jeff90620

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:40 am

AVG now allows comments by users of the Free version in their forums, even though we still cannot contact Technical Support directly.

I have reported this problem there and posted a link back here. Only time will tell if that provides a solution.

Jeff

DVArchive "loses" the .ndx file

hdonzis — Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:32 pm

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:32 pm

pwreimers wrote:

I had a snag and wanted to restore to yesterdays created restore point. The shows that were transferred overnight were the shows that did not load properly. Upon 'undoing' the last restore point, all the shows loaded okay.

One would have to wonder where the XML and NDX files went after the restore such that they could come back after undoing!

It's certainly possible that Windows System Restore thinks that those XML and NDX files are system files (certainly possible for XML, however, NDX appears to be some kind of database file extension). I wouldn't think that Windows would be messing with XML files at all! They are certainly all over the place!

Henry

Modem dials, handshake, but "can't connect to service&q

hdonzis — Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:44 pm

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:44 pm

Did you try the factory reset, 3-8-2-Zones?

So, are you saying that the 5080 can't even pull down the list of local numbers for you to pick from?

As I said last time, you could either get that cheap motherboard from Mikeyboy that only has the modem working, or you could look through the vent holes or take the cover off both your 5040 and 5080 to see if you see a socketed EEPROM chip, I think near the hard drive ribbon cable connector (there's a picture somewhere on AVSForum if you search for it). If both motherboards have socketed ROMs, then you can simply swap the ROMs and have the 5040 become the lifetime unit. Then you'd only have to decide if you want to swap the hard drives as well to get the larger hard drive (depending which hard drive you think is better operating), and possibly swap the mother boards if you want the serial number on the back of the unit to match...

Henry

*UPDATE* I found the pictures of the EEPROM here. I'm not sure how you'd be able to see that through the vent holes which was also indicated on AVSForum...