Another question: This time about WIRNS

[Jerry]

I connected my wife's replay to her network and that seemed to work. It
downloaded the program guide from the internet. However, I can seem to
make WIRNS work properly. It recognizes the replay, however I can't
seem to do anything.

For the time being I haven't specified an alternate source for the
program guide information. Is that necessary, since for now I just want
to get the program to work with the existing guide information.

When I click on the ToDo list I get nothing that appears to be a ToDo
list. The screen remains the same as it was previously. I realize I
must be doing something wrong in the setup. However, whatever
information I find on WIRNS is relatively incomprehensible to me. I
could argue that as an old fart (72) technology is just too hard for me,
but I have used computers since the 1950s. However, anything to do with
networking is not my forte.

Can anyone give me a simple suggestion as to what needs be done, or at
least a pointer to somewhere I might find that information?

Thanks.

--
Jerry Bank
Trenton, New Jersey
Music is the language of the gods.

[Mark Lloyd]

On 07/17/2011 10:01 AM, Jerry wrote:
> I connected my wife's replay to her network and that seemed to work. It
> downloaded the program guide from the internet. However, I can seem to
> make WIRNS work properly. It recognizes the replay, however I can't
> seem to do anything.

Have you got the WiRNS interface visible? You go to your web browser and
enter the IP address of the computer running WiRNS ('localhost' if
you're at the same computer). Your browser should then be showing some
information.

Note that on your Replay(s), the program provider names need to start
with "WiRNS:".

> For the time being I haven't specified an alternate source for the
> program guide information. Is that necessary, since for now I just want
> to get the program to work with the existing guide information.

It is not. I did not use an alternate source when I first set up WiRNS.
It makes sense to me to try it a little at a time, so no alternate guide
source until I got WiRNS to work.

> When I click on the ToDo list I get nothing that appears to be a ToDo

> list.The screen remains the same as it was previously.

How can it be the same, when you got a ToDo list?

> I realize I
> must be doing something wrong in the setup. However, whatever
> information I find on WIRNS is relatively incomprehensible to me.

WiRNS definately could use better documentation. There is a little
built-in. When you see a blue '?', you can move the mouse pointer over
it for information (not much, but some).

> I
> could argue that as an old fart (72) technology is just too hard for me,
> but I have used computers since the 1950s. However, anything to do with
> networking is not my forte.
>
> Can anyone give me a simple suggestion as to what needs be done, or at
> least a pointer to somewhere I might find that information?

There's some information on the 'Planet Reply' forum. Follow the link on
the WiRNS info screen.

> Thanks.
>
>

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us
Has a Replay 5xxx

"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible" - Mark Twain

[Tony D]

All things WIRNS including the developers, etc can be found on the
Replay AVSFORUM.