pyTivo Discussion Forum

mchunger · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

I can't get anything to show up in my NPL. I've restarted, the PC and tivo waited about an hour. I only have two files in the folder, just as a test.

I do have transfers enabled, and it was working because I previously had Tivo Desktop running (i've since uninstalled it just in case that was conflicting)

Any ideas?

Here's some info about my setup.

OS: Win XP SP2 (turned off firewall to make sure nothing was being blocked)
Tivo: S2, software version: 9.1-01-2-140

I've run it in console mode as well as a service to see if that made any difference, which it didn't

My config file is fairly basic:

[Server]
port=9032
ffmpeg=C:\Program Files\pyTivo\plugins\video\ffmpeg_mp2.exe

[Chuck]
type=video
path=F:\00_TV\chuck

#[Admin]
#type=admin

Here's the output for HTTP query:
http://192.0.0.1:9032/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F

−
<TiVoContainer>
−
<Details>
<Title>xphome</Title>
<ContentType>x-container/tivo-server</ContentType>
<SourceFormat>x-container/folder</SourceFormat>
<TotalItems>1</TotalItems>
</Details>
−
<Item>
−
<Details>
<Title>Chuck</Title>
<ContentType>x-container/tivo-videos</ContentType>
<SourceFormat>x-container/folder</SourceFormat>
</Details>
−
<Links>
−
<Content>
−
<Url>
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=Chuck
</Url>
<ContentType>x-container/tivo-videos</ContentType>
</Content>
</Links>
</Item>
<ItemStart>0</ItemStart>
<ItemCount>1</ItemCount>
</TiVoContainer>

krkeegan · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

That all looks good. And the readout from the pyTivo shows that it is running properly. It appears that the TiVo is not seeing the beacon for some reason.

When you run pyTivo in console mode(so you can see the output on your screen) do you see any requests from your TiVo? They should look something like this:

192.168.1.150 - - [22/Feb/2008 15:44:02] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0" 200 -

You may need to tinker with your beacon address.

What is the IP of your TiVo?

mchunger · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

It seems that I only get messages when I run the HTTP query. See the excerpt below. It doesn't look like anything from the Tivo is hitting the server/pc.

My Tivo IP is 192.0.0.100 and the server/pc that is hosting PyTivo is 192.0.0.1 (subnet 255.255.255.0)

In that case, should I change the Beacon in the config file (to 255.255.255.0)?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Checking to see if pyTivo is already running . . .

Starting pyTivo Server. Use ctrl+Break to exit.

pyTivo is ready.
C:\Program Files\pyTivo\Cheetah\Compiler.py:1508: UserWarning:
You don't have the C version of NameMapper installed! I'm disabling Cheetah's us
eStackFrames option as it is painfully slow with the Python version of NameMappe
r. You should get a copy of Cheetah with the compiled C version of NameMapper.
"\nYou don't have the C version of NameMapper installed! "
192.0.0.1 - - [22/Feb/2008 19:21:28] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Co
ntainer=%2F HTTP/1.1" 200 -

krkeegan · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

No broadcasts use the 255 on the other end.

I notice you have an odd IP range, I doubt it would be an issue since TiVoDesktop works, but you are using a non-private IP range that is at the very beginning of a class C network. 192.0.0.0 is the start of class C networks.

Anyways I don't think that is the issue.

Try this for your beacon:
192.0.0.255

PaulS · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 148

Lots of possibilities here.

The 192.0.0.0/24 IP address is a legit, public address. You actually want it to be something in the 192.168.0.0/16 address space, which is defined by IETF standards/RFC's as free and clear for private network address use. You may be confusing your router, thinking it needs to route it to the internet, rather than your PC.

Might also be an address collision. Lots of home routers acting as DHCP servers like to grab the .1 address for themselves.

mchunger · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 3

The beacon line worked! Thanks!

I think i'll try swapping my IP scheme when I get some free time to see if I can get things working without the beacon line.

Either way, glad I was able to get things working. I love the fact that I can stream a bunch of different formats as well as having the the subfolders to keep tings organized!!!

krkeegan · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject:

I mean it is no big deal having the beacon line. It isn't like it slows you down or anything.