Nothing happens when hitting the connect button

[ncp]

I have installed and configured roconnect on my pc and its running with a green W at the  bottom. I have indexed the media and I see a green light on the roku device in roku.php. Clicking "connect" does nothing - am I supposed to see something? Also nothing happens on my tv, I still see the support page when I go to my roconnect channel

[Daniel Wagner]

I've used ro-connect for the last year and Love it. It seems the older version of wamp server works better then the new one.  I also have plex on my server and it's not as stable as my ro-connect.  Plex tends to crash on a daily basis so I find myself using ro-connect most often.

 

 

On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 8:18:06 PM UTC-6, athar husain wrote:

Thank you, for some reason, i'm seeing the same thing. I hear the Plex app may be better? I also was thinking about chucking this device out of the window. The Western Digital player instantly picks up all of your movies on your computer

[Mark]

If its just an issue with the Roku channel not finding the server.  You can try my FREE channel which lets you manually configure it to point at your server.  http://code.google.com/p/rokuserver/wiki/EdgeHomeTheaterSetup

The old roConnect method of finding the server doesn't work all the time correctly.  But it has no manual method to override the automatic method.

[Sherman]

Have you tried left clicking the icon and click the put online button?

On Friday, September 21, 2012 9:37:22 PM UTC-7, ncp wrote:

[Mortis Van Berg]

Plex has major issue with indexing files. I'm running Plex and roConnect on two different PC at home. roConnect for my movies and Plex for videos links from the internet.

On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 8:18:06 PM UTC-6, athar husain wrote:

Thank you, for some reason, i'm seeing the same thing. I hear the Plex app may be better? I also was thinking about chucking this device out of the window. The Western Digital player instantly picks up all of your movies on your computer

On Friday, September 21, 2012 11:37:22 PM UTC-5, ncp wrote:

[Walt Mannherz]

I struggled with RoConnect for over a year.  It worked, then it didn’t, and so on.  I have a large video collection, and spent many hours indexing and fixing, it was painful.

Then I tried Plex.

 

Took me a little while to get used to it.  But I’m glad I switched.

RoConnect was a great concept, but Plex actually works.

 

It was free.

Allows you to store your videos in multiple directories on different hard drives.

It supports multiple libraries within each category of movies, tv shows, photos, music etc.

Supports collections within each library

It supports srt files to import sub-titles.

Once I figured it out, I never had an issue with indexing.

Indexing is automatic and a breeze…. Allows you to change graphics or edit metadata for each movie

At the client, you can sort by title, watched, unwatched, release date, recently released, actors, director and many others.

Supports large collections.

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[Mortis Van Berg]

I'll give it another try but I couldn't get Plex to index my movies. It did a few tv shows I had.  I like the Plex interface but roConnect is simple. I like simple.

[Mark]

Plex is great!!  My only complaint is when I tried it, it wanted to transcode my files.  Which they didn't need transcoding for my Roku to play them.  And the result was crappy looking video and high CPU load on my machine.

This is what original spawned my idea of creating a new channel (Edge Home Theater) to solve some of the issues with the roConnect channel.  I hope to have a new server some day as well to replace the roConnect server, but I am a one man team right now and its hard finding time to work on it.  All my work is FREE for use.  As I built it because I needed for my own use, might as well share it for others that find a need for it too.  code.google.com/p/rokuserver

[Mark]

Finally ended up trying Plex Media Server.  First impressions was Wow!!!!  Its come a long way over the year.  The server part is great.  The channel on Roku, could use some work.  But its usable for watching videos.

[Anthony Maida]

Three years later, I installed it and ran into the same issue. I was able to determine the bug in the code with the Rokus.xml file in c:/wamp/www/roku/xml directory.

1. Stop the wamp server

2. Open the rokus.xml file

3. Highlight everything and replace with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<devices></devices>

4. Save the file

5. Restart the server

6. Open your default browser

7. Go to //localhost/Roku/Roku.php

8. Open reconnect channel on your Roku

9. Connect on the web browser

You are good to go.