Running out of data port 8000

Well guys, I'm confused. I have a Series 1 Tivo OS 3.0-01-1.000 and had a message to change to port 80 on the emulator (127::210.48.107.133:80:::) as of 1 March 2006.

Clearly port 8000 no longer works for me because I get the message "Failed while preparing data". I edited tclient.conf to change port 8000 to port 80 and now it just plain fails. Do I need to GS again as well as editing tclient.conf or is something else broken? :(

Yes, as warned weeks ago port 8000 will no longer service legacy setups. The exactly message you are getting is what testing predicted.

There are those in this thread who have had no issues changing to port 80 (before March 1). There are alot of tivos running on it.

Anyway, this is beacause the headends were the same, so effectively changing to port 80 is just getting data from another location. In this case there is no need to make any other changes other than the port. There is no need to GS.

However, if you have left your machine on port 8000 and tried to update against it, it is possible that some of the new stuff was loaded into your tivo before the failure preparing data occured.

If that is the case... well, it may be a start again situation.

I'd advise to check your tclient line syntax closely, check your ':' count and so on. Take a look at tcliient log to see if it is connecting. If you are not running emuProxy (which it appears you are not) and your isp does proxy port 80, then I'd suggest you install emuProxy, the emulator on 80 is setup for it. This could also be your problem since you wont have experienced issues using port 8000.

Otherwise... its a start over. Good luck.

Hi DJC, just out of interest can you explain why we need to do a 'Clear All'. Why cant we just re-run GS?

Phil

See post http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?p=6517#post6096 above.

Basically as stated the new headends are quite different and there are alot more slices involved. The tivos I tested failed to take a GS once configured with of the legacy emulator.

However, that's not definitive in your case, just advice.

If you want to try it, knock yourself out :D. Post your results for the community.

Hi DJC

Having previously been on port 8000, I switched to 80 as suggested, but no luck there as my ISP has a proxy server on port 80. As suggested by you above, I have tried installing emuProxy3 (using the instructions on the BypassTransparentProxyServer OzTivo wiki) and running it with this command:

emuProxy3 -s 210.48.107.133 -p 80

but all I get is:

Could not connect to server: No route to host

Is the OzTivo version of emuProxy3 the correct one to use? Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Colin

According to what I can tell you shoulkd have switched to port 8000 not port 80.

See this thread:

http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?t=959

"ALL new installations should be run against the port 8000 emulator. "

Quote:

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Originally Posted by zollymonsta

According to what I can tell you shoulkd have switched to port 8000 not port 80....

"ALL new installations should be run against the port 8000 emulator. "

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I'm not trying to do a new installation. I'm just trying to switch an existing setup from port 8000 (which used to work, but will now only work with a new installation as you say) to port 80 (which also used to work, but now my ISP has a proxy server on port 80)

I understand that emuProxy is meant to deal with this problem, but I can't seem to get it going. Can anyone help?

Colin

Hmmm. No route to host sounds more like tcpip setup than a proxy issue?

The emulator hack side is done. I can see others on it who are using the emuproxy setup. PM me your tivo id, and I'll look at the emulator logs.

Check...

* tclient 127 line is 127.0.0.1 8000?

* then try emproxyZA

and lets enable -d and/or -d2 options to get some debugging output.

Hi DJC,

Tivo ID sent by PM and I have confirmed that the tclient line is 127::127.0.0.1:8000:::

Debug output is as follows:

[TiVo [p2] ~]# emuProxy3 -d -s 210.48.107.133 -p 80
Accepted connection
Could not connect to server: No route to host

Would switching to emuProxyZA help?

Thanks,

Colin

Could you also try the following:

traceroute -n 210.48.107.133
If traceroute is on your tivo it'll show if you tivo can get out.

and

wget http://210.48.107.133/index.htm
If this work and you get a index.htm file (which you can delete)
then your networking is working.

And
wget http://210.48.107.133:8000/index.htm
Which should bypass your ISP's proxy.