iPhone interface for MediaPortal (iPiMP) - original thread (now closed) (4 Viewers)

[lord2013]

Problem Again

Hi Cheezey,

sorry for wasting your time again.
I did not use my Video Server for some time and now iPiMP won't work anymore.
Installed the latest Version (for Media Portal 1.0 / 3.4.0) but still no success.
The problem is that the WebServer won't start.

please find attached the troubleshooting package.
Could you check where my problem might be?

thx in advance

best regards
Stephan

 

[feriso]

With my iPiMP viewing the TVguide and recordings works fine; its just when I try and look at the music and the videos. that it won't connect now.

I'll double check the iPiMP plugin within MP but I'm sure that I did enable it.

 

[astrapowerrr]

How did you do this? I have the same problem here.

 

[feriso]

With my iPiMP viewing the TVguide and recordings works fine; its just when I try and look at the music and the videos. that it won't connect now.

I'll double check the iPiMP plugin within MP but I'm sure that I did enable it.

Ok checked and the mp plugin is enabled and is set to the default port 55667 so I'm at a loss here

 

[cheezey]

With my iPiMP viewing the TVguide and recordings works fine; its just when I try and look at the music and the videos. that it won't connect now.

I'll double check the iPiMP plugin within MP but I'm sure that I did enable it.

Ok checked and the mp plugin is enabled and is set to the default port 55667 so I'm at a loss here

feriso - Can you post your C:\Program Files\iPiMP\aspx\App_Data\iPiMPClients.db

Hi Cheezey.

Thanks for the plug-in. I just installed it on MP1.01 combined tv-server and client. I already run girder with a webserver at port 80 so I had to use another port, the installation was smooth apart from my initial problem with the webserver. It works great if I use it with a laptop and firefox but I couldn't get it to work on my ipaq 614c with windows mobile 6. I tried opera 9.5 beta and the iris browser. I could log in but no menues worked.

One problem with MediaPortal is that it seems to not exist any general interface for other applications. The music system squeezebox has for example a general interface that people has used to develop applications for the pronto remotes, the software can for example browse music on the screen. I would be great to have something similar for mediaportal for videos and tv-server

I would like to use the server side of IPimp together with a remote control, a philips pronto 9400. The remote can handle TCP/IP and javascript but it do not have a web-browser and can not handle video streams. I already use girder as a server side with tcp/ip, girder then control MP. It works great but I only have one way control and no short-cuts in Mediaportal as in the Ipimp remote. Would it be possible to use the Ipimp server and send commands and requests to the server directly? A first test could be to see if one can use the remote in Ipimp direcly from the pronto. Is it possible to control it with telnet?

Johan

johanj - The iPiMP client plugin runs as a .NET TCP listener, you have to write a component to send iPiMP recognised commands over a TCP socket, I don't think you can do this with telnet. The iPiMP server uses a .NET TCP client to do this. I can provide the iPiMP client source code should you want to develop something yourself.

I am using MP 1.0.1.0 under Vista with dedicated TVserver. The recording was transcoded just fine. In this case the filename is "Ingang Oost (EO) - Nederland 1 - 2009-04-27.mp4" The IPIMP browser "changes" the file name to "Ingang". This file is not there. The log shows this:

[Tue Apr 28 13:46:03 2009] [error] [client 172.19.3.170] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang
[Tue Apr 28 13:46:19 2009] [error] [client 172.19.3.170] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang
[Tue Apr 28 13:46:19 2009] [error] [client 172.19.3.170] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang
[Tue Apr 28 13:48:08 2009] [error] [client 195.7.197.27] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang
[Tue Apr 28 13:54:31 2009] [error] [client 172.19.3.170] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang
[Tue Apr 28 13:57:12 2009] [error] [client 172.19.3.170] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang
[Tue Apr 28 13:57:14 2009] [error] [client 172.19.3.170] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang
[Tue Apr 28 14:02:00 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: E:/MP4/Ingang

opeters - Is this the same for all your recordings?

Hi Cheezey,

sorry for wasting your time again.
I did not use my Video Server for some time and now iPiMP won't work anymore.
Installed the latest Version (for Media Portal 1.0 / 3.4.0) but still no success.
The problem is that the WebServer won't start.

please find attached the troubleshooting package.
Could you check where my problem might be?

thx in advance

best regards
Stephan

lord2013 - One of your logs shows that the web server is running.

Can you open a command prompt, navigate to C:\Program Files\iPiMP\apache\bin and run the following command:

httpd.exe -k start -n iPiMPweb

And post the results.

 

[opeters]

Hi cheezey,

The issue with the recordings is for all the files. For instance "Top Gear ...mp4 " results in an error: File does not exist: "E:/MP4/Top" I am currently reinstalling the OS on the server due to other issues. I will test it again after the reinstall.

 

[johan_80]

I think I found a bug:

Browsing My Music through iPiMP will hang MediaPortal if Album Title contains the character "," (without "").

 

[lord2013]

lord2013 - One of your logs shows that the web server is running.

Can you open a command prompt, navigate to C:\Program Files\iPiMP\apache\bin and run the following command:

httpd.exe -k start -n iPiMPweb

And post the results.

I ran the manual http start command you mentioned.
I did not get any (error) message but the server is not up either after running the command.

any other ideas?

 

[cheezey]

I think I found a bug:

Browsing My Music through iPiMP will hang MediaPortal if Album Title contains the character "," (without "").

Thanks - I'll have a look.

lord2013 - One of your logs shows that the web server is running.

Can you open a command prompt, navigate to C:\Program Files\iPiMP\apache\bin and run the following command:

httpd.exe -k start -n iPiMPweb

And post the results.

I ran the manual http start command you mentioned.
I did not get any (error) message but the server is not up either after running the command.

any other ideas?

Do

NET STOP iPiMPweb

and

NET START iPiMPweb

both work OK?

Are there any errors in your windows Eventlog?

 

[johanj]

johanj - The iPiMP client plugin runs as a .NET TCP listener, you have to write a component to send iPiMP recognised commands over a TCP socket, I don't think you can do this with telnet. The iPiMP server uses a .NET TCP client to do this. I can provide the iPiMP client source code should you want to develop something yourself.




Hi Cheezey, I would be verry glad if I could see your iPiMP client source code and I will try to use it together with the pronto remote, my email: jeppssonjohan at hotmail.com.

I send commands with TCP sockets to girder today so I hope that it will be straight forward to use your server side instead.