Problem with Girder plugin

[arbu]

It now makes some months that I use Netremote and this tool became completely indispensable in my system Home Movies. I always wait with impatience the new versions and I'm happy to find news functionalities every time. Thank you very much Ben, for this great work!!! I hope that the development of this application will continue in the time.

Since some times, can be one or two months, I have the impression that I lose the connection with Girder.
My configuration is the following :
Pc N°1 (Constantly Power On)
- Girder 3.2.9
- CM11A (X10)
- USBUIRT
- Router Wireless Isdn (Not possible to have ADSL)
- MyHTPC (TVGuide Fr, Weather,)

Pc N°2 (In function solely for JRiver MediaCenter)
- Girder 3.2.9
- MediaCenter 9.1
- Access Point
- ZoomPlayer

Pocket Pc Dell Axim 5 with Wireless Card Dell 1180
- NetRemote 0.995 rc7
2 Active Plugins Girder
-The firt one ID -1 for Pc N°1 [192.168.0.30]
-The second ID -1000 for Pc N°2 [192.168.0.50]

It is not easy to explain (Sorry for my English), but from time to time (suddenly), I lose the connection with girder on the Pc n°1.
Indeed, it is necessary that I leave Netremote then on my Pocket Pc that I throw Netremote again to get the connection. I never have this problem with the Pc N°2 and Mediacenter!!.
I don't think that it comes of my wireless equipment. Did you noted this problems ?
Thanks very much for your help. I hope that you understand what i mean...

[avid]

I think I do understand what you mean.

I run a mixture of Girder and my own Windows Media Player 9 Server (simpler than JRMC) and a DigiTV server. I never lose the connection to WMP9 or DigiTV, but often lose it to Girder, and have to restart the Pocket PC. Does this sound familiar?

I strongly suspect a networking problem the Pocket PC Girder plug-in. Ben has sent me the source to this (he's very busy on other things), and I plan to spend time this weekend attempting to track it down.

Brian

[HCPASS]

Bsr,

Je suis également Français et je vous ai envoyé un MP.

Je me lance ds Netremote pas toujours évident mais quelles capacités!!

Merci

Stéph.

[arbu]

Ok, thanks for your reply.
On one of my PC, I use JRMC and I do not have any problem and i'm never lose the communication. But on my second Pc, i run Girder to control X10 et Irda with UsbUirt, I'm not certain that the problem really comes from girder plug-in, but I loses connection between Pocket PC and Girder but not completly because i can ping my Pc !
It's very strange because it's irregular. That functions well during a few seconds then, lose connection. I think, it's the same problem that you have but i'm surprised because people do not seem to have this problem?

It's a good news that you can work on that.
If you want, I can test when you will have the new version?

Thank you very much for your support.

[arbu]

Brian,

Did you have time to find the problem ??
Thank you for your answer.

Jean-Louis

[avid]

I am running a traced version of the Girder driver on my live HTPC and so far the problem has not reappeared. That is very annoying.

I have already fixed a couple of minor problems, but I can't see how those fixes would cure the main problem I was looking for.

If I make no further progress by Friday, I will mail Ben my changes so far, to incorporate in the next RC. I will be away all next week and will not be able to work on it while I am out of the country.

Brian

[Ben S]

Thanks for the help Avid. Have you noticed anything else?

If you can email me what you have, I'll include it with the next release.

[avid]

Hi Ben,

Welcome back.

I didn't send the stuff when I said I would as you were on vacation.

I've been in Redmond WA all this week, but I'll be back to the UK tomorrow and will send my changes as soon as I get home. For me the problem has now "gone away", but I haven't knowingly fixed it. I'm not sure I like that!

Brian

[arbu]

I am impatient to be able to test this new version!!

Avid, thank very much for your strong support.
Ben, when can we expect to have this new version?

Jean-Louis

[Jlee]

Just to add some more info for you I have a similar problem. I don't always lose the connection to Girder but often I fail to get any feedback from girder back to NR. Typically this happens when I first start NR.

I have a red/green icon in the bottom corner of my ccf to indicate that Girder is talking. When first loaded the icon shows red but it should change to green if I hit the Home icon on my home page or if I hit any of the tabs at the top of my ccf (this initiates the request to girder for feedback to change the icon to green). Like I said I often have to close and reopen NR to get it green. You can DL my ccf and gml in the user downloads area to see what I mean.