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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: The Brewer on February 18, 2020, 06:25:03 am

Title: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: The Brewer on February 18, 2020, 06:25:03 am

Hi
Is the houseband app still being supported for Media Center 26?
I ask this because I keep getting 'internal server error' everytime I enter my access key and press submit.
I have enabled Port 52199 and I have checked on 'Canyouseeme.org' that it is not being blocked by my Windows Firewall.

I have tried on 3 different android devices and keep getting the same error.

Can anyone give me advice on what to do next to try and solve this?

Title: Re: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: Moe on February 25, 2020, 01:43:21 pm

You'd be much better served asking this question in the official thread for Houseband https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,102709.0.html

Have you turned authentication off?  Have you gone through all the troubleshooting in the linked thread?

Title: Re: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: The Brewer on February 28, 2020, 05:05:42 am

Hi
Thanks for your reply.
I managed to get it working by doing a factory reset on my modem/router as a last resort.

I am in the UK and from what I have read, the Virgin Media Hub 3.0 is not one of the best modem routers.

Having got it working though I found it was playing on my server and not on my HTPC.

Any idea how to get it to play through my HTPC?

Title: Re: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: Moe on February 28, 2020, 10:55:44 am

Did you enter the access key for your HTPC or for your server?

Title: Re: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: The Brewer on February 29, 2020, 08:37:22 am

Hi
My SERVER and HTPC have different access keys.

My HTPC works fine accessing the Server using the library on the HTPC and the HTPC access key.
When I use Gizmo on my android, I access the Server using the Server's access key and that works fine as well.

Should I be using the server's access key on my HTPC then and if so should I also copy the Library from the HTPC to the Server?

Although I have been using JRiver for a number of years, a lot of the stuff people talk about on this Forum is way over my head.

I so wish they would do a 'Dummies guide to JRiver' for people who are not so technically minded.

Title: Re: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: Moe on February 29, 2020, 11:04:21 am

Since you want the playback to happen on your HTPC, I would use the HTPC access key with Houseband.  You shouldn't have to change anything else.

Title: Re: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: The Brewer on February 29, 2020, 12:53:39 pm

Hi
Thanks for your help.

When I first set up Houseband I used the Access key for the HTPC and it wouldn't play on my HTPC so I used the Server access key instead and it played on the Server.

After reading your reply just now I put the HTPC access key in my HTPC again and it still wouldn't play.

I went back to my HTPC about 5 minutes later and tried it again and it played fine.

Thanks so much for your assistance and patience. I just hope all is well now.

Just need to play about with it now to see what it can do

Kindest regards

Michael

Title: Re: Houseband app and Alexa
Post by: Moe on February 29, 2020, 05:06:48 pm

Glad to hear you got it working.  Hopefully you'll be trouble free from here on out.