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<blockquote data-quote="Prospero" data-source="post: 769273" data-attributes="member: 113194">Mike - no demands, only suggestions which I hope may be of help to others.I understand that the software is only at beta stage, but the point of that is to flag up possible issues at this time. Fortunately Ampdroid DOES allow you specify different ports for the different services when you use the advanced configuration option. This is ESSENTIAL when running the TV4Home and GMAWebService services on different machines behind a firewall (as would often be the case with MediaPortal), because the firewall can only forward the requests to the appropriate machines based on the incoming port.So, even if the two services are running on different machines and both using the same 4321 port, as now seems to be the default, it would be necessary to configure Ampdroid to make the connections via different ports and configure the firewall to forward them accordingly to the respective machines, translating the port to 4321 where necessary.This kind of scenario would probably be even more confusing for the average user who doesn't really understand port forwarding, which is why I suggest some documentation might be necessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prospero, post: 769273, member: 113194"] Mike - no demands, only suggestions which I hope may be of help to others. I understand that the software is only at beta stage, but the point of that is to flag up possible issues at this time. Fortunately Ampdroid DOES allow you specify different ports for the different services when you use the advanced configuration option. This is ESSENTIAL when running the TV4Home and GMAWebService services on different machines behind a firewall (as would often be the case with MediaPortal), because the firewall can only forward the requests to the appropriate machines based on the incoming port. So, even if the two services are running on different machines and both using the same 4321 port, as now seems to be the default, it would be necessary to configure Ampdroid to make the connections via different ports and configure the firewall to forward them accordingly to the respective machines, translating the port to 4321 where necessary. This kind of scenario would probably be even more confusing for the average user who doesn't really understand port forwarding, which is why I suggest some documentation might be necessary. [/QUOTE]

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