<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div id="BB10_response_div" style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just a thought; does your mythtv front end have the firewall service running?</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You'll have to open the port if so. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I've done this a few times myself. </div> <div id="_signaturePlaceholder" style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td id="_persistentHeaderContainer" colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Bill Meek</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 18, 2013 10:51 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>Discussion about MythTV</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] mythmote Unable to Connect</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="_persistentHeaderEnd" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">On 11/18/2013 08:38 AM, Ian Barton wrote:<br>> On 18/11/13 14:33, Karl Newman wrote:<br>>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Leif Pihl <leif@pihl.us<br>>> <mailto:leif@pihl.us>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> I can't get my Mythmote to work either, so I'll be watching this<br>>> "stream" (for lack of a better word).<br>>> LP<br>>><br>>><br>>> On Nov 18, 2013, at 3:13 AM, Ian Barton wrote:<br>>><br>>> > I am trying to set up mythmote on my Android phone to connect to<br>>> a frontend. I can get the remote interface to work on the by ssh<br>>> using netcat localhost 6546. However, mythmote complains about an<br>>> unknown host.<br>>> ><br>>> > The ip addresses of my frontends are allocated by my dhcp server,<br>>> so I have added the server name (myth3.bantercat.co.uk<br>>> <http://myth3.bantercat.co.uk>) in Mythmote's setup. Reverse lookups<br>>> do work ie I can ping myth3.bantercat.co.uk<br>>> <http://myth3.bantercat.co.uk> from other computers on my network<br>>> and the port is not blocked by my firewall, as I can netcat<br>>> myth3.bantercat.co.uk <http://myth3.bantercat.co.uk> 6546 from other<br>>> computers in the network.<br>>> ><br>>> > Ian.<br>>><br>>><br>>> I just installed mythmote maybe 2 weeks ago and it's working fine for<br>>> me. I used the IPV4 numeric address. One thing to check is to make sure<br>>> your phone/mobile device is on the same wifi network (I had to prevent<br>>> mine from connecting to my isolated "guest" network).<br>>><br>>> Karl<br>>><br>>> P.S. I really hope that address is firewalled from external access,<br>>> otherwise ill-intentioned people could wreak havoc on your myth box.<br>><br>> Just tried using the ip address, rather than host name. Still no connection. Only one Wifi network here and no close neighbours, so I know it's<br>> the right one.<br>><br>> My firewall (Shorewall) blocks all external traffic from the Internet, except selected services.<br><br>Hi,<br><br>Something similar came up on the -users channel a while ago. The problem<br>seemed to be with the device, as the user couldn't even use their browser<br>to get to the backend. e.g. from an Android browser, try:<br><br> <yourBackendHostIP>:6544<br> or<br> <yourBackendHostIP>:6544/Myth/GetHostName<br><br>I know it's a different port, but just testing connectivity. If it works<br>from one of your other host's browser and not from the Android, that would<br>point to the source of the problem (and gets MythMote out of the<br>picture.)<br><br>And, like Karl, I use it (actually MythTV Android Frontend) and it connects<br>fine.<br><br>[the IRC user moved on and the Android problem wasn't resolved, sorry]<br><br>-- <br>Bill<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></div></body></html>