Just one thing after another

[wedgehog]

Rob, Tim, remember a couple of weeks ago I was having all that trouble with Netremote choosing it's own pc on the network to "Passthrough" the I/R to? You wrote me a LUA script to "Get round" the problem. The script was based on finding the name "Network-Master". Well none of my passthrough works with version 101 now because in the action list it no longer brings in the Instance names, only the ID numbers, it still shows the names in the Netremote plugins list, but we are back to the same old problem of it deciding to rout the I/R through to the "Media-Centre" pc on the network, so what do I do now?

[Rob H]

I'd suggest adding some print statements to that script to see what results it's getting back when iterating over the plugin instances. Or post the script you're using and I'll see what I can work out.

[wedgehog]

Hi Rob, I'm using the script you wrote for me. When the Action list showed the instances as computer names plus ID number it worked fine, but in the new versions of designer and netremote there are now no names in the action list. I wouldn't know what to do with it mate, it occured to me to replace "Network-Master" in the script with the id number of Network-Master in the plugin list, but I would only be guessing. Here's your script.

local g, gp
g = NetRemote.GetPlugin('Girder')
if g then
   gp = g:GetInstance('Network-Master')
   if gp == nil then
      local gi = g:GetInstances()
      if gi then
         for id, name in pairs(gi) do
            print('Trying '..name)
            if name == 'Network-Master' then
               print('Matched')
               gp = g:GetInstance(id)
               break
            end     
         end
      end
   end
   if gp then
      print('Setting default instance')
      gp:SetCurrent()
   else
      print("Couldn't find Network-Master")
   end
end

[Rob H]

In the NRD console you should see messages of the form

Trying xxxx

where xxxx is the name of a plugin instance. Is this not happening?

Can you also check your NetRemote variables for

Plugins[-1].CurrentInstance.Name

Mine is correctly showing the actual name (latest NR & NRD)

[wedgehog]

When I first started the editor I checked the interactive lua console and it said "Couldn't find Network-Master" I presumed that was because it was no longer listed in the action list. But I have just closed and re started the editor, which in turn started netremote and the console is empty. I tried re starting netremote on it's own and the console is still empty. Enclosed pics of action list and plugins, hope that's what you wanted.

[Rob H]

You should have got an error message if that script was actually running - that's very strange.

Try this script

local g, gp
g = NetRemote.GetPlugin('Girder')
if g then
   gp = g:GetInstance('Network-Master')
   if gp == nil then
      local gi = g:GetInstances()
      if gi then
         for id, instance in pairs(gi) do
            local name = instance:GetName()
            print('Trying '..name)
            if name == 'Network-Master' then
               print('Matched')
               gp = g:GetInstance(id)
               break
            end     
         end
      end
   end
   if gp then
      print('Setting default instance')
      gp:SetCurrent()
   else
      print("Couldn't find Network-Master")
   end
end

[wedgehog]

Ok mate, got this

[Rob H]

Okay, try this one

local g, gp
g = NetRemote.GetPlugin('Girder')
if g then
   gp = g:GetInstance('Network-Master')
   if gp == nil then
      local gi = g:GetInstances()
      if gi then
         for id, instance in pairs(gi) do
            local name = instance:GetName()
            print('Trying '..name)
            if name == 'Network-Master' then
               print('Matched')
               gp = g:GetInstance(id)
               break
            end     
         end
      else
         print('No instances!!!!')
      end
   end
   if gp then
      print('Setting default instance')
      gp:SetCurrent()
   else
      print("Couldn't find Network-Master")
   end
end

[wedgehog]

Hmmmmm haven't tried that one yet Rob, but I did shut everything down and re boot the pc and now it's working. The only things I had running on the pc was designer, netremote and internet explorer 7 so I am well confused. I had re started the software several times to try and get it to work, only just thought of re booting the pc. But I shouldn't have to! I wouldn't say that fixing this with this script was reliable enough. What if I decide a that I want the UIRT on any of the other five pc's on the network, am I going to have to find someone to write me a script every time? There should be a menu item on the page where you select passthrough or girder passthrough, on which you can select which machine you want to pasthrough to, and it shouldn't be a hit and miss affair

Forgot to say, even though it's now working, it's still not showing names in the action list.

[Rob H]

Did it definitely used to show names in the action list?

If rebooting the PC got it working it sounds like a Windows networking issue, probably to do with name lookup.

I agree that it would make sense to be able to specify the instance used for passthrough though - that's one for Tim to look at.