I have gone through all of the tutorials for installing PlexConnect on Win7. When trying to start up PlexConnect.py it runs into an error and shuts down the servers....
I have gone through all of the tutorials for installing PlexConnect on Win7. When trying to start up PlexConnect.py it runs into an error and shuts down the servers....
why didn't you google this error
this may be relevant
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/69674-error-10013-when-launching-plexconnectpy/
For me it's when it tries to bind to port 443, not port 80, at leat it looks that way from the log. I did google it and found tons of stuff, all saying to look for what is already bound to port 80 or 443. I look and can't really find anything. Not sure how to find out what is using port 443 and shut it down.
For me it's when it tries to bind to port 443, not port 80, at leat it looks that way from the log. I did google it and found tons of stuff, all saying to look for what is already bound to port 80 or 443. I look and can't really find anything. Not sure how to find out what is using port 443 and shut it down.
netstat -a -b in admin command line window should tell you. pipe the output to a file.
Resource Monitor also lists all active tcp connections and ports
Here's the output...
Does the apple tv have to be on and have it's DNS config changed to match the IP of my PC where the Plex server is running, for this to work?
netstat -a -b in admin command line window should tell you. pipe the output to a file.
Resource Monitor also lists all active tcp connections and ports
Here's the output...
As you saw it does not show which process has 443 open.
Does the apple tv have to be on and have it's DNS config changed to match the IP of my PC where the Plex server is running, for this to work?
Will now need to wait for PlexConnect experts to come in and advise you.
Meanwhile - maybe you find something here in this pinned topic
The plexconnect script will work even without the ATV on and configured to use it. It does however need to have port 80,443 and 53 available for t to use and these are what the ATV will communicate over and therefore need to be intercepted for plexconnect to be able to display content.
You will need to work out what is using port 443 and stop it (it is possible it’s an old version of plex connect that was not shutdown correctly? Does it still fail after a clean reboot?)
It looks like an svchost process has the ID of 4. I tried stopping all svchost services but they keep popping right back up. Not sure what to do here.
It looks like an svchost process has the ID of 4. I tried stopping all svchost services but they keep popping right back up. Not sure what to do here.
If not obvious and no one else comes with ideas for you, you could use Process Monitor or Process Explorer to establish what thread started the svchost process
Be careful with Process Monitor as It gobbles up system resources as it processes and captures millions of events.
Process Monitor does have a setting to capture at boot time so you set that option, reboot and will continue capturing until you load it again and it will ask you if you want to save the startup captured events. You can save as PML file for filtering offline and also can save as csv for loading into excel 2007+
I prefer using Process Monitor myself
Process Monitor
Process Explorer
Now I don't see anything using port 443. I've rebooted multiple times. Uninstalled and reinstalled plex server, plexconnect, etc. I've scoured the internet for what could be preventing the access to port 443 and there's really not much that comes up. I downloaded a microsoft app to see what is using what port and nothing is showing on 443 now. I'm at a loss. I've closed down any process that looks like it would even remotely interfere. NOTHING. I'm pulling my hair out. Spent so many hours on this. Hopefully someone has something to try! Thanks.
-> Have you tried to run it as "admin"? Not sure about Win...
-> Have you tried to run it as "admin"? Not sure about Win...
Start / Run / cmd
Right click on cmd.exe and "Run As Administrator"
Now you see nothing using port 443 what’s the log look like?
How about you let someone use teamviewer and take a peek at whats going on with your pc. Worst case backup your media and just reinstall windows.
After much google work today I found the culprit. Hopefully it helps someone else. It was "Routing and Remote Access" that was running as a service. Someone somewhere had the same thing hogging port 443. Shut that down and did the trick. Got it working and feeding Plex to my ATV. Thanks for the help and suggestions.
well done and thank you for the feedback. How did you track it to that?
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