Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!) (3 Viewers)

[Bleazle]

Wooohooooooooooooo!!!!! Port forwarding is working!!!!!!!!!!!! Where's the smiley face that shows someone running around the room with their hands in the air???

@ thekiwi & an0nz - thanks for your help with this guys. I went for the fixed IP on the wireless router then forwarding required ports to it and then the HTPC, tweaked my W7 firewall settings a bit more and finally (after years of trying) it's sorted!


@ bttmnz - thanks for the suggestion - I threw the HDD in the freezer (it's stuffed so it was worth a try!) but she's still dead - just a lot of grinding going on in there I'm not too worried with regard to the content, I'll be able to get that sorted but I'm a bit pi$$ed with regard to the drive because it was very rarely used (especially compared to a HDD installed in a PC) - it is an external USB drive that only ever got turned on when movies were being played from it - not an every day occurrence. It's still under warranty according to Ingram Micro but I have to go back through the shop I bought it from (PB Technologies according to Ingram Micro) - and this is the only piece of HTPC equipment that I can't find the receipt for. PB Technologies confirm they sold it to me (via the serial number) but they say I need the receipt as well - I might have to go in there this week and get angry!

Bleazle

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

and this is the only piece of HTPC equipment that I can't find the receipt for. PB Technologies confirm they sold it to me (via the serial number)

Payment via debit\credit card should be enough to track down receipt via their computer system.

 

[Bleazle]

Hi all, I'm sitting in a cafe killing time so figured I'd use the time to "blog" on what I've been doing lately with regard to making my htpc accessible from anywhere. ..

Now that I've got port forwarding sorted I can access 4TR remotely to view the epg, plus schedule, cancel & delete recordings which is great.

I can use aMPdroid as a remote locally plus steam live TV, movies, TV Series & music to my phone - unfortunately aMPdroid doesn't support 4TR so i can't steam recorded tv to my phone (wtf??? how bad is that?? lol).

To round things out I'm using VoxCommando to control my htpc by voice - I've installed the pocket audio (microphone) ap on my phone which cost $2.44 (cheap mic!) - this combo is awesome - want to watch a movie, or listen to music etc ? just say "find movie ###, play artist ###, play some easy listening, play song ###, show news, weather, music videos " etc etc, great for when I'm on the deck and can't see the screen or if the tv is turned off - OK, I don't watch movies with the screen turned off too often but you get the idea ! Plus its just cool

Now i need to find time to try WebMediaPortal out to see if it'll stream recorded tv from 4TR to my phone - not that I really need that functionality, I just want to get it working.

MySky? Isn't that the name of a dinosaur???

+for any Android users, if you haven't tried the TouchPal keyboard I recommend giving it a go - it's great & best of all it's free i definitely don't miss my iPone 4.

Bleazle

 

[Bleazle]

WOW, it's pretty quiet here at the moment... maybe everyone headed over to London for the Waitangi Day booze up??

Quick update on my post above - I've added the "Recorded TV" folder to the Videos section of MediaPortal so now it shows up in aMPdriod = I can stream recorded TV to my phone

 

[Bleazle]

**knock** **knock** Anyone out there?

I've got a question that I should know the answer to, but I don't.. Is there a way to change the default view in MyMusic? My default view is Artist - List and I hate it, I would prefer Albums - Coverflow - is this possible?

Cheers

Bleazle

 

[rlevis]

Hi all. I'm having problems with Prime on DVB-T for the last 2 days. It's regularly breaking up and repeating frames up to 2 seconds earlier at times. I'm assuming the signal on the Kordia mux is low or something has gone wrong with the UHF aerial. Strange though as there are no obvious problems on other Kordia channels or TVNZ or MediaWorks muxes.,

I'm receiving off Mt Te Aroha in the Waikato. Tried 2 different TV cards so not that.

I've checked the TV server log and the Signal Level for Kordia is 6, whereas signal for TVNZ is 3 and no obvious problems (Blackgold tuner). Are these normal values for DVB-T tuners?

 

[AtTimesPerplexed]

Hi all. I'm having problems with Prime on DVB-T for the last 2 days. It's regularly breaking up and repeating frames up to 2 seconds earlier at times. I'm assuming the signal on the Kordia mux is low or something has gone wrong with the UHF aerial. Strange though as there are no obvious problems on other Kordia channels or TVNZ or MediaWorks muxes.,

I'm receiving off Mt Te Aroha in the Waikato. Tried 2 different TV cards so not that.

I've checked the TV server log and the Signal Level for Kordia is 6, whereas signal for TVNZ is 3 and no obvious problems (Blackgold tuner). Are these normal values for DVB-T tuners?

Recorded the rugby last night and had the same problem, the recording however works fine in VLC and other media players.
Other freeview terrestrial receivers also have no problem.
I presume this is a TSReader problem, perhaps an experimental version will work, will try and see what happens. These didn't work.

 

[Kiwi]

Same here regarding Prime. Rugby last night was breaking up and cricket today is the same :-(
Receiving off Kaukau (Wellington). Haven't had a chance to dig into detail, my first reaction was to have a look on the forum!

 

[rlevis]

Luckily I have a sat dish so watched the Prime cricket today off that. But I still wonder if I have an aerial problem because during a TV3 program tonight, the video started pausing for several seconds at a time while the audio continued normally. This occured for about 60 seconds and came right for the rest of the show. That looks like low signal strength to me.

My installation is reasonably new and perhaps the recent rain managed to get into some coax or something.

When scanning DVB-T a couple of months ago I think I was getting a signal strength of around 30% but now it's around 1% for kordia,. I think I may have to get the installer back to check the signal strength with their box. I heard him say it was a very good -60db when first installed.

Whether this is related to the Prime issue, I'm not sure.

 

[mortstar]

Bit Off-Topic, but hopefully the resident Kiwi's will be able to help me out. I'm based in the UK and I need to purchase a projector (not-AV quality) for someone based in New Zealand. What's the best online store I should be looking at to order New Zealand kit?

Thanks in advance for any help!