pyTivo Discussion Forum

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

to say i’m a neophyte would be too kind, and know it
can be a pita to go through this with someone who has no
technical knowledge at all, but thanks to any patient
souls who can help ...

pytivo was running until a couple of weeks ago, and in spite
of being technically challenged, i’d really like to get it working
again. i can think of nothing that changed – believe i already
had 9.4 when it last worked.

read the faq and trouble-shooting, and here’s some info:

running xp pro SP1 (can’t update to 2 because of some software
incompatibility until the new computer in a few months)
tivo S3 9.4

do not run windows firewall, for trouble-shooting:
disabled other firewall completely
diabled virus scanner/checker

http://localhost:9032/
(get pyTivo Web Configuration and pyTivo ToGo)
(view now playing – nothing happens)

https://192.168.1.4
(get password screen then shows now playing
at https://192.168.1.4/nowplaying/index.html)

CONSOLE:

127.0.0.1 -- [07/Sep/2008 11:58:12] "GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 – C:\Program Files\TIVO\pyTivo\Cheetah\Compiler.py:1508: UserWarning: You don’t have the C version of NameMapper installed! I’m disabling Cheetah’s userStackFrames option as it is painfully slow with the Python version of NameMapper. You should get a copy of Cheetah with the compiled C version of NameMapper. “\nYou don’t ahve the C version of NameMapper installed!”

127.0.0.1 -- [07/Sep/2008 12:10:37] "GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [07/Sep/2008 12:10:39] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=NPL&Container=Admin HTTP/1.1" 200 –

when i check ipconfig it says ‘ethernet adapter wireless network connection 3:’ but the ‘connection-specific DNS suffix’ is blank.

tivo network diagnostics shows: port configuration test: failed
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pyTivo.conf:

[Admin]
tivo_mak = <correct>
togo_path = E:\tivo video
type = admin

[My Videos]
type = video
path = E:\tivo video

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

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i added ‘beacon=192.168.1.4’ to *.conf file per trouble-shooting suggestion but didn’t make a difference.

added video and music tests per trouble-shooting – no difference

another question: when pytivo was running and i downloaded some shows, i wasn’t able to dl anything over ~4 GB. specifically, they would stop (different shows at different times) at exactly 4,294,963,201.

thanks.

rdian06 · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 362

Did you add the beacon line under the Admin section or the Server section? It should be under the Server section.

Also, the 4GB limit for downloads is probably caused by your Windows drive being formatted FAT32. FAT32 max file size is 4GB. If you convert the drive to NTFS, you can have a larger max file size. Windows has a built-in, non-destructive conversion program. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

rdian06 · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 362

Here's a long shot.

Shutdown pyTivo, then edit your pyTivo.conf and add this to your Server section:

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

rdian06 · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 362

I'm going to add some extra debugging to the beacon code and send you a copy so we can try to figure out how it's failing (or if it is failing at all).

In the mean time, can you follow my instructions in the following post to upgrade from the krkeegan Windows installer (pretty old version) to wmcbrine's latest version:

http://pytivo.krkeegan.com/pytivo-stopped-working-t412-15.html#3256

You can download wmcbrine's latest fork snapshot from here:

http://repo.or.cz/w/pyTivo/wmcbrine.git

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

[post edited because i do have new error messages]

did what you suggested and more info in next post.

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

okay - i got the additional error message/s (btw - how does one capture these? since i'm a tech retard, i'm right now relegated to typing ;) :

Exception happened during processing of request from (‘127.0.0.1’, 3605)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python25\lib\SocketServer.py”, line 464, in process_request_thread self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File “C:\Python25\lib\SocketServer.py”, line 254, in finish_request_thread self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File “C:\Python25\lib\SocketServer.py”, line 522, in __init__ self.handle()
File “C:\Python25\lib\BaseHTTPServer.py”, line 316, in handle self.handle_one_request()
File “C:\Python25\lib\BaseHTTPServer.py”, line 310, in handle_one_request method()
File “C:\Program Files\TIVO\pyTivo\httpserver.py”, line 94, in do_GET method(self, query)
File “C:\Program Files\TIVO\pyTivo\plugins\video\video.py”, line 379, in QueryContainer not self.get_local_path(handler, query):
File “C:\Program Files\TIVO\pyTivo\plugin.py”, line 62, in get_local_path path = os.path.normpath(container[‘path’])
KeyError: ‘path’

also get the new console mgs:
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Sep/2008 23:51:49] "GET /TivoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=My%20Videos HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [09/Sep/2008 23:51:50] "GET /TivoConnect?Command=XSL&Container=My%20Videos HTTP/1.1" 200 -

rdian06 · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 362

So another user that spontaneously developed a problem like you was able to solve it by uninstalling pyTivo (this assumes you used krkeegan's Windows installer), rebooting and then reinstalling.

So first rename your pytivo folder to pytivo.wmcbrine.
Then rename pytivo.krkeegan back to pytivo.
Then run the uninstaller from the pyTivo group on the Start menu.

Reboot.

Then reinstall with krkeegan's installer and drop in your conf file. See if things work. If they do, then shutdown pytivo and go through my instructions again to upgrade to wmcbrine's fork since it's much more up to date.

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

yes, i had uninstalled and re-installed several times (because i didn't have a clue what else to do) but it never worked. i tried again after your suggestion but same.

later i'm going to uninstall everything again, including python - and any tentacles i can find - and reinstall all from scratch again.

appreciate your time in trying to help.

thanks.

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

another fresh install didn't work - same results. i'm sure i'm doing something wrong but have no clue what it could be. why it worked for weeks and then just stopped is baffling - and why i can't get it back up.

rdian06 · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 362

This might sound crazy, but have you tried unplugging your Tivo, leave it unplugged for 10 minutes and then power back up?

I know it sounds strange, but I've seen a lot of strange things in my time.

moonscape · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 9

i did try unplugging, thanks - and appreciate your effort to help.

as an update, i still haven't been able to get pytivo working again on my notebook, but installed it on my desktop (not where i wanted it but something was better than nothing) and it worked fine until today! desktop can see recordings, now playing - 'my videos' shows up on tv - but tv doesn't show the recordings any more. and i'm now out of computers to install this on :)

this has been bedeviling!