[landale]

I have read through countless threads in here about how to set up my replaytv 5000 to work with IVS all with no luck. I have set a static IP address for my replaytv, tried countless numbers of ports for incoming shows, all of which I opened on my D-Link DI-604 router. I even ran the IVS test and it said it should be working. I have to believe it's something I am doing wrong on the router but I have no idea what it could be, is there anyone else with the router that has an ideas what I could be doing wrong?

 

[Jeff D]

This is from my experience with the 614, but the problem may be the same...


Dlink has a port forwarding thing that is NOT what you want.


Make sure you are setting up a virtual server (advance tab->virtual server) and not the other port forward thing (can't remember what that is)

Virtual server settings:

private IP - replayTV's static IP

port (priv and pub) - to the value you want for the replay. Pick something large like 50000 or greater.

Protocal - Both

Schedule - Always

Apply


That should be it.

 

[landale]

thanks for the response, that's pretty much exactly what I have been doing so far on the router. although haven't tried anything with a port number that high. will give it a try when I get home.

 

[DiverDan]

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Originally posted by landale I even ran the IVS test and it said it should be working.

Which test is that? I've recently written one which I haven't released upon the world yet, am I reinventing the wheel?

 

[landale]

the test is http://replaytvIP:replaytvPort/ivs-IVSGetUnitInfo


and even after another change in the port I am using I still can't get this working, could it be something with my ISP I don't know about. I'm just really confused right now why this isn't working

 

[DiverDan]

Oh, okay. What is your Replay's ISN?

 

[landale]

it's 00004-54832-07053

 

[DiverDan]

Replay lists your port as 55060, updated just a little while ago. Attempting to connect to you at that port results in a connection refused. Not much else I can do - if you have that port on your firewall/router forwarded to the same port on your replay, it should work. Rarely would an ISP block ports over 1024, doing so tends to break lots of things.

 

[j.m.]

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Originally posted by landale the test is http://replaytvIP:replaytvPort/ivs-IVSGetUnitInfo

That's not going to tell you much since using your ReplayTV IP (a LAN IP) takes port forwarding out of the equation. You should try http://WANIP:replaytvPort/ivs-IVSGetUnitInfo . If your router supports loopback, this should tell you if things are working or not. Otherwise, you will have to try it from a PC with a different WAN IP because if loopback isn't supported that test won't work even if things are set up correctly.

 

[landale]

I tried that one and even from a different computer it doesn't work, maybe that's what the problem is, I Just don't know how to fix it now

 

[landale]

I think I finally have it working, I know everyone said I should have everything set via the virtual server but I also set it up under the firewall setting and I think it might be working now