I recently built myself an HP ProLiant server. It's running Ubuntu server and I have most things working except the get_iplayer PVR option.
I can run get_iplayer as the user as I have a script on the box which runs and can set the output correctly and transcode it into the required formats (radio and tv). So everything *appears* to run ok.
But when I add the pvr option, I don't get the required downloads.
Just in case it was something I'd done on the server, I tried creating a pvr list on this machine with just one radio programme, but again, when I run the pvr command, I don't get any downloads, only the statement that it's 'Running PVR Searches:'.
Has anybody any idea where I'm going wrong please as I've spent many hours on this now and I'm getting nowhere despite looking through several pages of FAQ on the get_iplayer forums.
On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 13:59:32 +0000 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
I recently built myself an HP ProLiant server. It's running Ubuntu server and I have most things working except the get_iplayer PVR option.
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Has anybody any idea where I'm going wrong please as I've spent many hours on this now and I'm getting nowhere despite looking through several pages of FAQ on the get_iplayer forums.
I found the solution to this problem with this through trial and error and just in case anybody else has the same issue, here's the solution.
The options file (I'd copied it over from this machine) has a 'search' line it and while that never stopped the normal get_iplayer stuff working, it stopped the pvr function. I just deleted that line and the Ubuntu box runs fine now and downloaded a few files overnight.
I'd like to move on now to being able to access the web pvr from this machine but all my connections time out. I've tried setting the IP address in the Ubuntu config file to the localhost address, and even 0.0.0.0 but all my connections from here time out.
Do I need to make any changes to the firewall to allow the connection through? If so, what do I specify? I've looked at lots of the get_iplayer forums and nobody ever seems to mention firewall rules so I'm not getting too far forward.
Any suggestions?
On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:06:23 +0000 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
I'd like to move on now to being able to access the web pvr from this machine but all my connections time out. I've tried setting the IP address in the Ubuntu config file to the localhost address, and even 0.0.0.0 but all my connections from here time out.
Do I need to make any changes to the firewall to allow the connection through? If so, what do I specify? I've looked at lots of the get_iplayer forums and nobody ever seems to mention firewall rules so I'm not getting too far forward.
I take back what I said about not getting too far forward!
A reboot solved it once I'd added a firewall rule for port 1935/tcp and set the thing to listen on the IP address of the box.
I just need to add the web pvr to automatically run at machine start and that's it, job done. On to the owncloud stuff now.
** Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk [2016-10-31 14:29]:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 13:06:23 +0000 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
I'd like to move on now to being able to access the web pvr from this machine but all my connections time out. I've tried setting the IP address in the Ubuntu config file to the localhost address, and even 0.0.0.0 but all my connections from here time out.
Do I need to make any changes to the firewall to allow the connection through? If so, what do I specify? I've looked at lots of the get_iplayer forums and nobody ever seems to mention firewall rules so I'm not getting too far forward.
I take back what I said about not getting too far forward!
A reboot solved it once I'd added a firewall rule for port 1935/tcp and set the thing to listen on the IP address of the box.
I just need to add the web pvr to automatically run at machine start and that's it, job done. On to the owncloud stuff now.
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I've been playing with iPlayer again recently and got the remote web page working only to find that what I was wanting to record couldn't be accessed via the search or web pvr. BBC can be downloaded if you do it from the command line though with the pid - now all I need is some more disk space on my server (although to be fair it I was only experimenting on that because it is in the process of being decommissioned). The next challenge will be when you are forced to login to get at iPlayer!
I'm further ahead on owncloud, or rather nextcloud, the only down side is that I managed to trash both the master config.php and the backup one - doh! It is only an experimental installation, but those things tend to sneak up on you and you suddenly realise how much you are using them!
I was upgrading from the 9.x series to the 10.x series manually because my June install seemed to insist that it was up to date, whereas my nice little nextcloud box (WD drive, case, Raspberry Pi and custom Ubuntu install if you havn't heard of it) turned out to be more up to date. The next challenge is Federating the two, so explororing the Snap install and working out the cleanest way to install an SSL certificate.
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