Boxee Box as an extender? (xbmc perhaps?)

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by drewg

OK, I think I found what was starting the old webserver (load_at_startup_runnable_classes=net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer) in my Sage.properties. I've removed that, and still no joy.

I think I'm going to remove all these remote-api plugins & re-install them..

Drew

the log,

Deploy /home/sagetv/server/jetty/contexts/sagex.xml -> org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context@1b45e9a{/sagex,null}

would imply that you sagex is deployed. Did you check the plugin configuration for sagex-services to see if the HTTP option is checked?

[drewg]

Originally Posted by drewg

OK, I think I found what was starting the old webserver (load_at_startup_runnable_classes=net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer) in my Sage.properties. I've removed that, and still no joy.

I think I'm going to remove all these remote-api plugins & re-install them..

Drew

OK, after I removed the remote-api plugins, restarted, re-installed those plugins & restarted, I get a connection from boxee!

Now to work on the mapping stuff...

The server is a Linux box, and I'm recording to /var/media/tv.
The client is a win7 box, so I assume I must use Samba, right? Windows doesn't speak NFS..?

I'll make a read-only SAMBA share 192.168.200.2\\tv
I should then say this for the mapping, right:
/var/media/tv,192.168.200.2\\tv

Thanks,

Drew

[drewg]

I'm back.. Again, I'm trying to use the Boxee SageTV app on a Win7 box to talk to SageTV on a Linux box. Thanks to lots of great help, I can see my recordings (woot!). But I cannot play them.

I've tried to do a UNC mapping of: /video/tv,\\192.168.200.2\tv

I've verified from a cmd terminal that I can access the video at both \\DROGON\tv\*.mpg and \\192.168.200.2\tv\*.mpg. Am I doing something wrong in the re-mapping? Please see the attached screen shot of the UNC setup screen, along with a dir of the TV directory..


When I try to play them, I see this in the Boxee debug log:

16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E02-TheHotDogintheCompetition-2644133
-0.mpg"
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E02-TheHotDogintheCompetition-2644133
-0.mpg"
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: Adding role "Actor"...
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: Adding role "Guest Star"...
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: Adding role "Executive Producer"...
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E01-TheMemoriesintheShallowGrave-2627

Thanks again for the help!

Drew

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by drewg

I'm back.. Again, I'm trying to use the Boxee SageTV app on a Win7 box to talk to SageTV on a Linux box. Thanks to lots of great help, I can see my recordings (woot!). But I cannot play them.

I've tried to do a UNC mapping of: /video/tv,\\192.168.200.2\tv

I've verified from a cmd terminal that I can access the video at both \\DROGON\tv\*.mpg and \\192.168.200.2\tv\*.mpg. Am I doing something wrong in the re-mapping? Please see the attached screen shot of the UNC setup screen, along with a dir of the TV directory..


When I try to play them, I see this in the Boxee debug log:

16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E02-TheHotDogintheCompetition-2644133
-0.mpg"
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E02-TheHotDogintheCompetition-2644133
-0.mpg"
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: Adding role "Actor"...
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: Adding role "Guest Star"...
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: Adding role "Executive Producer"...
16:48:43 T:1244 M:2465067008   DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E01-TheMemoriesintheShallowGrave-2627

Thanks again for the help!

Drew

Drew,

Look through the logfile for the debug statements that contain: "MediaPathMapper: Adding map " and let me know what they say.

Tom

[drewg]

16:44:34 T:1244 M:2455142400 DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Adding map "video/tv" -> "DROGON/tv"...
16:48:29 T:1244 M:2463035392 DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Adding map "video/tv" -> "192.168.200.2/tv"...


Shouldn't the slashes be going the other way...?

Drew

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by drewg

The server is a Linux box, and I'm recording to /var/media/tv.
The client is a win7 box, so I assume I must use Samba, right? Windows doesn't speak NFS..?

Actually Microsoft does have NFS services for Windows 7 it just isn't installed by default - according to info here anyway. Sorry if all this does is complicate your problems. Also looks like Ultimate is needed

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by drewg

16:44:34 T:1244 M:2455142400 DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Adding map "video/tv" -> "DROGON/tv"...
16:48:29 T:1244 M:2463035392 DEBUG: MediaPathMapper: Adding map "video/tv" -> "192.168.200.2/tv"...


Shouldn't the slashes be going the other way...?

Drew

Where is DROGON coming from? It looks like you have video/tv mapped to two different places. Try removing the map from video/tv to DROGON.

The slashes should be OK because you're using SMB, right?

[drewg]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Where is DROGON coming from? It looks like you have video/tv mapped to two different places. Try removing the map from video/tv to DROGON.

The slashes should be OK because you're using SMB, right?

But I thought windows wanted its slashes to go backwards (\) for directory separators... Sorry, I basically never use windows, I just thought it would be simpler for Boxee..

DROGON is the name of the server... using it also works from the command line. I tried the name first, then guessed that the boxee software could not do the name lookup, then tried to use the IP address. Not sure how to remove it.. I guess I'll go looking for the xml file.

Thanks,
Drew

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by drewg

But I thought windows wanted its slashes to go backwards (\) for directory separators... Sorry, I basically never use windows, I just thought it would be simpler for Boxee..

DROGON is the name of the server... using it also works from the command line. I tried the name first, then guessed that the boxee software could not do the name lookup, then tried to use the IP address. Not sure how to remove it.. I guess I'll go looking for the xml file.

Thanks,
Drew

Windows uses "\" for path separators.

To get rid of the DROGON mapping just go to the config screen and edit it, isn't that were you entered it? There should be no need to edit any xml files.

[drewg]

OK, I looked at the code & I think I might understand what is happening. My settings are as follows:

<registry>
    <value id="AppVersion">0.247</value>
    <value id="EpisodeSortStyle">Title</value>
    <value id="JettyPassword">frey</value>
    <value id="JettyUser">sage</value>
    <value id="MediaPathMaps">/video/tv,\\192.168.200.2\tv</value>
    <value id="SageServer">192.168.200.2:8080</value>
    <value id="UseSSL">False</value>
</registry>

When you store the path, you're stripping the leading "/", so you're storing "video/tv" (as confirmed by the debug log 'Adding map "video/tv" -> "192.168.200.2/tv"'.). The problem is that the server is presenting you with a path to play that includes a leading "/" ( as confirmed by the debug log 'Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E0.....'). I think this is what is preventing the match from happening.. If I similarly strip the leading / when looking up the path, we get a match.

So I took config.py and hacked it like this:

--- boxee/apps/com.googlecode.sagetvboxee.sageboxee/config.py   2011-11-29 09:59:51.372050000 -0500
+++ config.py   2011-12-01 08:49:29.357285000 -0500
@@ -313,7 +313,10 @@
                        return: A string containing the converted path, or the original path if no conversion was necessary
                '''
                origpath = path
-               path = self._preparePath(path, False)
+               if path.startswith('/'):
+                       path = self._preparePath(path, True)
+               else:
+                       path = self._preparePath(path, False)
 
                # Search for case-sensitive match first
                for k in self._sorted_keys:

Now it plays videos, but I'm sure that hack will break things for everybody else. I don't know enough about why you're stripping leading slashes to understand how to fix it right.. (zero windows fu) Hopefully this information can help you understand the problem..

Drew

[david1234]

Originally Posted by drewg

But I thought windows wanted its slashes to go backwards (\) for directory separators... Sorry, I basically never use windows, I just thought it would be simpler for Boxee..

Windows does use the "\"-> d:\whatever\...
Unix uses "/"-> /bin/...

Boxee is written in Python, which like java, allows the forward slash in file paths on both windows and unix. I'm don't remember the official reason for this, but it means we don't have to "escape" the back slash.

if you have to escape the backslash, you start getting some ugly paths->
D:\\whatever\\... compared to D:/whatever/...
and it gets worse as you start to use smb
\\servername:33333\share\ttt becomes \\\\servername:33333\\...

This is of course very over-simplified, but you get the idea.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by david1234

Windows does use the "\"-> d:\whatever\...
Unix uses "/"-> /bin/...

My bad, you are right.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by drewg

When you store the path, you're stripping the leading "/", so you're storing "video/tv" (as confirmed by the debug log 'Adding map "video/tv" -> "192.168.200.2/tv"'.). The problem is that the server is presenting you with a path to play that includes a leading "/" ( as confirmed by the debug log 'Cannot convert path "/video/tv/Bones-S07E0.....'). I think this is what is preventing the match from happening.. If I similarly strip the leading / when looking up the path, we get a match.

Drew,

I didn't actually write that portion of the code, it was done by another team member. I'll look into this for you over the next few days to see why it's done that way.

FYI. You should not have to much with xml to change the settings, just use the config menu in the application.

Tom

[drewg]

Drew,

I didn't actually write that portion of the code, it was done by another team member. I'll look into this for you over the next few days to see why it's done that way.

FYI. You should not have to much with xml to change the settings, just use the config menu in the application.

Tom

Sorry.. I wasn't trying to blame you for the problem.. I hope it didn't sound that way! I really appreciate the help you've given me, and I appreciate you looking into this!

I wanted to find the xml settings to just confirm what I'd entered in the dialog box..

Drew

[rmccallister]

My appologies if this has been answered in a previous post.

Just received my Boxee box and proceeded to install the SageTV app from the repository.

I have the Jetty web server and sagex - services 7.1.9.2 installed on my sagetv server (running windows XP)

I am getting the following error from the Boxee app when I launch it:

"Application can't be started.
The Sage server must be upgraded to version 7.1.8.255 or greather."

Any help would be greatly apprecitated.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by rmccallister

"Application can't be started.
The Sage server must be upgraded to version 7.1.8.255 or greather."

Looks like you are not running the latest and greatest Sage software. Look at Settings->System Information. The first item is "Software Version:", it should say "Software Version: SageTV V7.1.9.256".

[rmccallister]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Looks like you are not running the latest and greatest Sage software. Look at Settings->System Information. The first item is "Software Version:", it should say "Software Version: SageTV V7.1.9.256".

Thank you. You are correct, I am on 7.0.23.246. Any way to upgrade to v7.1.9.256?

[Slack]

I had a go at this this morning. on a Boxee Box
Updated SageTV server.
Already had Jetty, and sage-x web service installed.
So, I told the Boxee Box the pertinent details and it found the recordings & meta data - but streaming was problematic. It looked good for a second, then became slow motion - frame by frame.

I checked the recordings files, and their share via a laptop (including wireless latency) and it streamed butter-smooth.

1) any ideas (short of cable or switch hardware) why Boxee Box would have trouble streaming from the Sagebox (streams well enough from a ReadyNAS in limited testing).
EDIt: Recordings are shared on an XP box 'My Recordings' and 'My Recordings2' are the network share names.

2) Boxee Box (or rather the sage app) doesn't seem to remember SageTV server IP:Port / User / or recordings locations after a restart of the Boxee Box. Am I missing something?

[darcilicious]

Originally Posted by Slack

1) any ideas (short of cable or switch hardware) why Boxee Box would have trouble streaming from the Sagebox (streams well enough from a ReadyNAS in limited testing).
EDIt: Recordings are shared on an XP box 'My Recordings' and 'My Recordings2' are the network share names.

You may be running into some SMB issues that the latest versions of the firmware (1.2.x) introduced. You can narrow this down a bit by going to Files from the Main Menu, then Network, then Windows Network and then navigate to the one of the recordings folder and try to play the file directly.

2) Boxee Box (or rather the sage app) doesn't seem to remember SageTV server IP:Port / User / or recordings locations after a restart of the Boxee Box. Am I missing something?

This isn't typical but some users do seem to experience issues with the Box remembering their app settings You can try contacting support@boxee.tv for more help with this one...

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by rmccallister

Thank you. You are correct, I am on 7.0.23.246. Any way to upgrade to v7.1.9.256?

Easy. Follow the links in this post: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56137