[mythtv-users] mythmote Unable to Connect

Ian Barton lists at wilkesley.net
Tue Nov 19 15:32:18 UTC 2013


On 18/11/13 15:50, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 11/18/2013 08:38 AM, Ian Barton wrote:
>> On 18/11/13 14:33, Karl Newman wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us
>>> <mailto:leif at pihl.us>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I can't get my Mythmote to work either, so I'll be watching this
>>>     "stream" (for lack of a better word).
>>>     LP
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Nov 18, 2013, at 3:13 AM, Ian Barton wrote:
>>>
>>>      > I am trying to set up mythmote on my Android phone to connect to
>>>     a frontend. I can get the remote interface to work on the by ssh
>>>     using netcat localhost 6546. However, mythmote complains about an
>>>     unknown host.
>>>      >
>>>      > The ip addresses of my frontends are allocated by my dhcp server,
>>>     so I have added the server name (myth3.bantercat.co.uk
>>>     <http://myth3.bantercat.co.uk>) in Mythmote's setup. Reverse lookups
>>>     do work ie I can ping myth3.bantercat.co.uk
>>>     <http://myth3.bantercat.co.uk> from other computers on my network
>>>     and the port is not blocked by my firewall, as I can netcat
>>>     myth3.bantercat.co.uk <http://myth3.bantercat.co.uk> 6546 from other
>>>     computers in the network.
>>>      >
>>>      > Ian.
>>>
>>>
>>> I just installed mythmote maybe 2 weeks ago and it's working fine for
>>> me. I used the IPV4 numeric address. One thing to check is to make sure
>>> your phone/mobile device is on the same wifi network (I had to prevent
>>> mine from connecting to my isolated "guest" network).
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>> P.S. I really hope that address is firewalled from external access,
>>> otherwise ill-intentioned people could wreak havoc on your myth box.
>>
>> 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
>> the right one.
>>
>> My firewall (Shorewall) blocks all external traffic from the Internet,
>> except selected services.
>
> Hi,
>
> Something similar came up on the -users channel a while ago. The problem
> seemed to be with the device, as the user couldn't even use their browser
> to get to the backend. e.g. from an Android browser, try:
>
>      <yourBackendHostIP>:6544
>      or
>      <yourBackendHostIP>:6544/Myth/GetHostName
>
> I know it's a different port, but just testing connectivity. If it works
> from one of your other host's browser and not from the Android, that would
> point to the source of the problem (and gets MythMote out of the
> picture.)
>
> And, like Karl, I use it (actually MythTV Android Frontend) and it connects
> fine.
>
> [the IRC user moved on and the Android problem wasn't resolved, sorry]
>

Problem finally solved:

myth2.bantercat.co.uk - restarted frontend and it worked

myth3.bantercat.co.uk - couldn't work this out at all netcat connected 
from localhost, but not from anywhere else. Eventually nuked ~/.mythtv 
and re-ran frontend  setup. It now works.

Ian.



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