iPhone interface for MediaPortal (iPiMP) - original thread (now closed) (5 Viewers)

[cavoid]

ipimp no longer controlling media portal

Hopefully there is a quick answer to my problem. Ipimp was functional until I tried updating to 3.3.1 where the apache server failed to stop, etc. Using ipimp I can access the remote control but the functions do not translate into media portals' menus moving appropriately. When it was working ipimp was fantastic and I've tried everything I can think of....

 

[cheezey]

Hopefully there is a quick answer to my problem. Ipimp was functional until I tried updating to 3.3.1 where the apache server failed to stop, etc. Using ipimp I can access the remote control but the functions do not translate into media portals' menus moving appropriately. When it was working ipimp was fantastic and I've tried everything I can think of....

Have you upgraded a singleseat install?

There should be some indications in your logs so can you complete the steps detailed in the Known Problems / Troubleshooting section of the wiki and post them.

 

[rhartinger]

Hi ceezey, since the update to your new version I cannot convert any record. Are this Settings rigth for fmpeg?

-threads 4 -re -vcodec libx264 -s 480x272 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -deblockalpha 0 -deblockbeta 0 -crf 24 -bt {0}k -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_method umh -me_range 16 -subq 5 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp8x8 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -level 30 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -trellis 2 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -acodec libfaac -ab {1}k -ar 48000 -ac 2

The Message from Transcoding Status:
This task failed

 

[cheezey]

Hi ceezey, since the update to your new version I cannot convert any record. Are this Settings rigth for fmpeg?

-threads 4 -re -vcodec libx264 -s 480x272 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -deblockalpha 0 -deblockbeta 0 -crf 24 -bt {0}k -refs 1 -coder 0 -me_method umh -me_range 16 -subq 5 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp8x8 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -level 30 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -trellis 2 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -acodec libfaac -ab {1}k -ar 48000 -ac 2

The Message from Transcoding Status:
This task failed

Have you read this?

 

[rhartinger]

I changed the dll and have still the same problem transcoding failed!

 

[cavoid]

Hi cheezey....
I've attached the zip file for you to problem solve.......thanks for your help.

 

[ZedN]

Hey Cheezey.

What would I be doing installation/config of the new version (3.3.x) that it wouldnt be bringing up the new features on my iPod? Everything is working that I can tell, just cant do the new stuff - remember login, my videos, messaging etc...

Cheers

 

[tCC]

Hi,

Man, great application!!!

How can I manually change the timeout in the web.config so I don't have to login for one year ?

Is it the value in <forms name=".ASPXAUTH" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="30"
Or the one in <roleManager defaultProvider="SQLiteRoleProvider" enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true" cookieName=".ASPROLES" cookieTimeout="30"

And which forwarding ports have to be open when I want to contact a MediaPortal client over the internet, opening 55667 only didn't do much (Could not connect...).

I want to use both the client controls as well as WOL over internet (doesn that work at all over the internet ?)

Last question, having the problem recorded tv programs don't show their thumb preview anymore since I've replaced the .DLL, is that a known bug ? The .PNG's in the c:\ root are 0KB

Thanks a lot!

 

[cheezey]

I changed the dll and have still the same problem transcoding failed!

Can you retry again with a different recording, someone reported the same as you.

Have you resolved your client issues?

Hi cheezey....
I've attached the zip file for you to problem solve.......thanks for your help.

Hmm - there's not much in these logs, I can see the iPiMP client plugin loading with your MediaPortal client and starting to listen but it never receives any commands from the iPiMP web server. Can you confirm you upgraded both the server and client? Is the iPiMP webserver on the same PC as the client? Is there a firewall blocking the traffic?

Hey Cheezey.

What would I be doing installation/config of the new version (3.3.x) that it wouldnt be bringing up the new features on my iPod? Everything is working that I can tell, just cant do the new stuff - remember login, my videos, messaging etc...

Cheers

What have you got? Can you complete the log gathering described in the troubleshooting section of the wiki and post those.

Hi,

Man, great application!!!

How can I manually change the timeout in the web.config so I don't have to login for one year ?

Is it the value in <forms name=".ASPXAUTH" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="30"
Or the one in <roleManager defaultProvider="SQLiteRoleProvider" enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true" cookieName=".ASPROLES" cookieTimeout="30"

And which forwarding ports have to be open when I want to contact a MediaPortal client over the internet, opening 55667 only didn't do much (Could not connect...).

I want to use both the client controls as well as WOL over internet (doesn that work at all over the internet ?)

Last question, having the problem recorded tv programs don't show their thumb preview anymore since I've replaced the .DLL, is that a known bug ? The .PNG's in the c:\ root are 0KB

Thanks a lot!

Glad you like it

Change both timeouts to 525600 (= 1 year) and use the remember me toggle on the login screen.

You access the iPiMP webserver from the internet so whatever port you selected on the Apache details section on the install. It's the iPiMP webserver that actually communicates with you clients so you don't have to open any additional ports on your router to support that. You just have to ensure that your iPiMP webserver can contact your MediaPortal client on 55667 (or whatever port you use) for it to work.

To check that the iPiMP webserver can locate your client try to ping it from your iPiMP webserver using the hostname or IP address you configured in the settings page e.g....

[FONT="Courier New"]C:\>ping 192.168.241.2

Pinging 192.168.241.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.241.2: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.241.2: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.241.2: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.241.2: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.241.2:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 5ms, Maximum = 6ms, Average = 5ms[/FONT]

To check that the iPiMP webserver can communicate on port 55667 (or whatever port you use) try to telnet to it

[FONT="Courier New"]C:\>telnet 192.168.241.2 55667[/FONT]

If you just get a blank command prompt window then the comms are OK.

I'll check the thumbnail issue, I think it's OK with mine, anyone else got this problem?

 

[tCC]

Thanks for your quick reply, here's an update:

I can contact iPiMP over the internet (now), should have been my router that was confused, booted the thing and it worked, super

The preview thumbs are beeing generated with normal recordings (scheduled recording from the iPiMP interface) and I think they are NOT beeing generated when pressing the record button on my MCE remote (manual recording), let it record for a 1 minute, and stop the active recording.

Another thing I noticed was, that when I add a recording within iPiMP, the web page "freezes" (after it told me the scheduled was added) and have to reopen iPiMP again from the bookmarks.

Thanks again, super app, will post more comments when I used the program some more