Desperately seeking WIRNS help
Jerry
approaching (sort of like the debt limit) I want very much to get WIRNS
working.
This is all for my wife's unit. We have separate houses and I have
chosen to do hers first since it was easy to connect to the Internet.
I connected it, and it updates via the computer properly. I installed
WIRNS. Lacking any sort of decent documentation for it, I have had to
fumble around to use WIRNS. It is running.
The only way I seem to be able to access anything is via the
configuration screen. When I check on the replays that it sees, it
seems to see the one it should.
However, when I try to do anything from that screen, using the tools
menu, I get no results. If I ask to look at the program guide, nothing
shows up. When I look at the todo list, nothing shows up.
I know that lots of people use WIRNS, but somehow I can't seem to get it
working. Pointing me to the stuff on AVS doesn't seem to help, since it
assumes that I know how to use it. Is there anyone who can give me a
simple set of instructions to use.
Even though I am an old fart, I am not a technophobe, having used and
programmed computers starting in the 1950s.
Please help!!!!!
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Jerry Bank
Trenton, New Jersey
Music is the language of the gods.
rampage
@news.eternal-september.org:
The answers you need are at
http://www.planetreplay.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=32
It's not _that_ complicated, but it's not trivial, either. You need WiRNS
running on a PC, using Schedules Direct for the program guide. Once they
are up, you go to your Replay, re-configure your network settings and get
the programming guide through WiRNS.
Pick a thread and follow it. There's PLENTY of help in the threads.
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rampage
cable57
comes to technical stuff. I thought there was something wrong till i
noticed that the if you are getting the top portion of the page that
you had to click on the jump button. Also if that's not the problem
and its not bringing up the anything make sure the replay has a fixed
ip and your server (wirns) has a fixed ip. Go to the wirns home page
and follow the installation steps carefully. There also you will find
wirns wiki that has explanations of each of the pages and some of what
information that should be there. Its also helpful to have a second
computer on the network thus assuring that the wirns server is running
and not just in the computer it's self but not necessary. It took a
couple of days of fiddling for me to figure it all out then move the
server on to an old laptop just for wirns. The reason i moved it to a
spare computer i like dvarchive to stream my show from my two replays
and dva uses port 80 which conflicts with wirns, I am sure i could
have fiddles more with it and worked to run both on the same computer
but didn't want to take the time from changing from cable to directv.
I had both and cable was just for the replays. I have to plug Paterson
Technology (patersontech.com) for their serial to USB converter. It
work great and i didn't have to mess with the replay os to get the
right blaster codes or anything. As long as the clock thing isn't an
issue and the replays themselves don't die (one is 15 the other 10)
i'll be able to record many years into the future.
'
On a note and a question of my own I haven't research it yet but as
for dvarchive how do you get it to update to wirns instead of rptv?
This is my next technical battle and if anyone knows the simple answer
that would save me the time i would appreciate it.
thanks
david todd
sorry i don't have a funny, inspirational, or dull signature line
rampage
23dcdf...@r28g2000prb.googlegroups.com:
For DVArchive help try
http://www.planetreplay.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=41357#41357
After following the instructions for setting up the web proxy, click the
'Clear TV Listings' button. After that, click the 'Change ZIP/Provider' and
choose your new WiRNS provider, i.e. WiRNS:JoeBlow Cable Company instead of
JoeBlow Cable Company.
And for what it's worth, I'm running DVArchive and WiRNS on the same
machine with the same IP and port and getting schedules just fine. Never
know until you try. ;)
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rampage
Jerry
jump button, but I will look. Note that the computer I am on now is not
the one that has the replay attached, nor is it running WIRNS.
How do I know if the RTV has a fixed ip?
In article <958cddac-99ce-4e23-bc79-23dcdf0377c6
@r28g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, junk...@pobox.com says...
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Apple2Steward
To change the Replay to a static (fixed) IP:
Select Menu > Input > Network and Input Settings > Change
Network.
You should be able to see whether or or not the settings are
manual (fixed IP) or automated.
Also, if your router supports assigning IP addresses to MAC
addresses (or you set the Replay IP outside of the router's DHCP
range), it avoids the "DHCP bug" that causes an IP address to be
assigned to both the Replay NIC and also the Replay software (see
http://www.replaytvupgrade.com/ for an explanation).
If you're not getting any response to the Tools Menu items,
either you have something else using Port 80, or your firewall is
blocking Port 80. Try turning off your 3rd party firewall first
(also, if applicable, the built-in Windows firewall which will
sometimes silently turn itself on).
Running "netstat -ano" without quotes from a DOS box will tell
you if something else is running on Port 80.
Report back ;-)
(for rampage): check the box on the WiRNS confguration screen:
"Only WiRNS lineups to DVArchive"
"Jerry" <bank...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Apple2Steward
Select Menu > _Setup_ > Network and Input Settings > Change
Network.
"Apple2Steward" <no...@none.net> wrote in message
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rampage
> (for rampage): check the box on the WiRNS confguration screen:
> "Only WiRNS lineups to DVArchive"
DVArchive 'steals' the personality of a ReplayTV box it can see and uses
that to get listings. If no ReplayTVs are on-line, it can't get any
listings.
Once your Replays are talking through WiRNS for listings, and DVArchive has
been configged for the proxy, (WiRNS IP and port 80) it can take several
config, shut-down, re-config cycles to get DVArchive to recognize WiRNS
lineups. (about a dozen in my case) I finally just cleared the current
listings and it immediately popped up with the WiRNS replacement for my
correct cable company and ZIP.
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rampage