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<blockquote data-quote="Noelix" data-source="post: 146481" data-attributes="member: 18535"><p><strong>TV-Server Version</strong>: (can't remember which one, I'll edit this later)</p><p><strong>MediaPortal Version</strong>: 0.2.2.0 SVN (can't remember which one, I'll edit this later)</p><p><strong>MediaPortal Skin</strong>: BlueTwo</p><p><strong>Windows Version</strong>: Windows XP (SP2)</p><p><strong>CPU Type</strong>: AMD Athlon64 3000+</p><p><strong>HDD</strong>: 180GB Western Digital :: 300GB Seagate :: 300GB Seagate</p><p><strong>Memory</strong>: 768MB</p><p><strong>Motherboard</strong>: Biostar NF325-A7</p><p><strong>Video Card</strong>: Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 (256 MB)</p><p><strong>Video Card Driver</strong>: 9.1.3.1</p><p><strong>Sound Card</strong>: C-Media AC97 Audio Device</p><p><strong>Sound Card Driver</strong>: 5.12.1.50</p><p><strong>1. TV Card</strong>: Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE</p><p><strong>1. TV Card Type</strong>: Analog</p><p><strong>1. TV Card Driver</strong>: 2.0.43.24103</p><p><strong>MPEG2 Video Codec</strong>: Nvidia Purevideo</p><p><strong>MPEG2 Audio Codec</strong>: Nvidia Purevideo</p><p><strong>Satelite/CableTV Provider</strong>: Cox Communications (Basic)</p><p><strong>HTPC Case</strong>: Antec Overture II</p><p><strong>Power Supply</strong>: Special 450W SmartPower 2.0 ATX12V v2.01 compliant</p><p><strong>Remote</strong>: Microsoft MCE Remote, EU version</p><p><strong>TV</strong>: 72" RCA Scenium HDTV</p><p><strong>TV - HTPC Connection</strong>: S-Video</p><p></p><p>My PVR/HTPC is a single-seat configuration, and I'm using TVE3 with the tv server. Now, it's sitting in my living room, connecting to the internet with a wireless connection to my wireless router in another room on the other side of the house. It's an older house so there are concrete walls in between the living room and the office. Now, it can get a signal normally, but let's say someone goes to the bathroom during a show, and they walk right through this invisible signal that goes from the pvr to the router, and for that second the wireless signal is interrupted.</p><p></p><p>So I'm sitting there watching LOST live on tv, and my fiancee' gets up and goes to the bathroom. She comes back, and "My TV" goes away and up pops this window that says "Connected to database, unable to connect to server". Now I would understand this if the server was in another room of the house or something. But the server IS the client. It doesn't let me reconnect to the tv server until the network connection is restored. It is very very frustrating to watch tv let me tell you. So after the 4th time this happened while trying to watch LOST, I finally typed in localhost as the server address. It worked, but I got kicked any time the network connection was interrupted still. It would take me back to that tv server screen where I would just click "done" and it would take me back in to the My TV area until the next time the wireless connection dropped.</p><p></p><p>Now, my question is, is there a way to stop this from happening on a single-seat configuration?? My network connection should have nothing to do with the connection between two pieces of software on the same machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noelix, post: 146481, member: 18535"] [b]TV-Server Version[/b]: (can't remember which one, I'll edit this later) [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 0.2.2.0 SVN (can't remember which one, I'll edit this later) [b]MediaPortal Skin[/b]: BlueTwo [b]Windows Version[/b]: Windows XP (SP2) [b]CPU Type[/b]: AMD Athlon64 3000+ [b]HDD[/b]: 180GB Western Digital :: 300GB Seagate :: 300GB Seagate [b]Memory[/b]: 768MB [b]Motherboard[/b]: Biostar NF325-A7 [b]Video Card[/b]: Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 (256 MB) [b]Video Card Driver[/b]: 9.1.3.1 [b]Sound Card[/b]: C-Media AC97 Audio Device [b]Sound Card Driver[/b]: 5.12.1.50 [b]1. TV Card[/b]: Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE [b]1. TV Card Type[/b]: Analog [b]1. TV Card Driver[/b]: 2.0.43.24103 [b]MPEG2 Video Codec[/b]: Nvidia Purevideo [b]MPEG2 Audio Codec[/b]: Nvidia Purevideo [b]Satelite/CableTV Provider[/b]: Cox Communications (Basic) [b]HTPC Case[/b]: Antec Overture II [b]Power Supply[/b]: Special 450W SmartPower 2.0 ATX12V v2.01 compliant [b]Remote[/b]: Microsoft MCE Remote, EU version [b]TV[/b]: 72" RCA Scenium HDTV [b]TV - HTPC Connection[/b]: S-Video My PVR/HTPC is a single-seat configuration, and I'm using TVE3 with the tv server. Now, it's sitting in my living room, connecting to the internet with a wireless connection to my wireless router in another room on the other side of the house. It's an older house so there are concrete walls in between the living room and the office. Now, it can get a signal normally, but let's say someone goes to the bathroom during a show, and they walk right through this invisible signal that goes from the pvr to the router, and for that second the wireless signal is interrupted. So I'm sitting there watching LOST live on tv, and my fiancee' gets up and goes to the bathroom. She comes back, and "My TV" goes away and up pops this window that says "Connected to database, unable to connect to server". Now I would understand this if the server was in another room of the house or something. But the server IS the client. It doesn't let me reconnect to the tv server until the network connection is restored. It is very very frustrating to watch tv let me tell you. So after the 4th time this happened while trying to watch LOST, I finally typed in localhost as the server address. It worked, but I got kicked any time the network connection was interrupted still. It would take me back to that tv server screen where I would just click "done" and it would take me back in to the My TV area until the next time the wireless connection dropped. Now, my question is, is there a way to stop this from happening on a single-seat configuration?? My network connection should have nothing to do with the connection between two pieces of software on the same machine. [/QUOTE]
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