Re: Hub problems

[robkearns]

Thanks Kevin & Stuart for your replies.

You both hit on it with the network connection questions. When I
tried the Viewer again last night it worked straight away but then
later it didn't. I realised that the difference was that the first
time I had my network cable plugged in, the second time I was running
wirelessly. I then had a look at my network connections and found
that my wireless connection had the software firewall turned on. The
firewall has many settings, allow this allow that, so I allowed and
enabled everything but it still didn't work. So I turned it off and
now all is working fine.

BTW I'm running xp.

Thanks for your help, I think it would have taken a lot longer to
discover it was the network connection without your prompts.

Thanks
Rob

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"Kevin Hawkins" <lists@u...>
wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> This should all work so just to clarify can you just post
what OS
> and specific versions of the xAP apps you are running ? Are they
all the
> latest ones as downloaded from the xAPFramework site ? Also on your
laptop
> what network connections do you have and which are you using ??
> If you launch the GUI version of Viewer do you see anything
at all ?
> Does it see it's own heartbeat and appear itself as a device in the
left
> hand pane ? It should display its own heartbeat as the first thing
it shows.
> Although it is a step back you could launch the GUI Viewer
app first
> on the laptop and then start the other apps / services to see if
this works
> - the GUI Viewer will adopt the hub role and will show this (if I
remember
> correctly) in its title bar.
> It's almost sounding like the app that you first launched as
a xAP
> application has grabbed the 3639 port used as a hub but has
providing the
> hub functionality. I cant remember if the older Viewer app
adopts a hub
> role automatically, or if it was a config option - maybe it has
just pinched
> port 3639.
> You can of course run the Viewer as an app on the same
machine as
> the SlimServer and it will show you all the network traffic. Maybe
you don't
> have .NET installed on this machine though.
> The weather and SliMP3 connector work fine with hubs - but
the hub
> MUST be the first application started (or an app that will
automatically
> adopt a hub role). Viewer simply shows what broadcast traffic it
sees and
> hence the fact that it is deaf would indicate that it has not
managed to
> attach to a hub to listen - hubs are only needed to hear xAP
packets - and
> then they are only needed if there is more than one app on the same
machine
> , xAP apps will happily send data that can be heard by everyone
else without
> needing a hub.
>
> Kevin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: robkearns [mailto:robkearns@y...]
> > Sent: 20 April 2004 14:36
> > To: <a
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> > Subject: [xap_automation] Hub problems
> >
> > I've just started playing with xAP and I'm having a few
> > problems getting it running...
> >
> > I have a xAP Message Viewer and a Slimp3 Connector running
> > on my laptop with the Squeezebox server running on
> > another pc. When I turn on my Slimp3 I get messages in the
> > Slimp3 Connector window but nothing in the Viewer. I would
> > have expected to see at least the heartbeat messages in
> > the Viewer. I know the Viewer is running as a hub because
> > if I start a GUI xAPHub I get a message that the port is
> > already in use.
> >
> > I've also started a xAPWeather which successfully connects
> > to the BBC site but again I see no messages in the Viewer.
> >
> > From reading the xAP spec I assume the Slimp3 Connector
> > and Weather apps would connect as clients and the Viewer
> > would show all traffic that it forwards to its clients. I
> > also assume that the clients are compatibly with a xAP hub
> > as I don't get any warning about the base port already
> > being in use when I start them after starting the hub
> > which would have already opened the base port.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
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