Need help with PlexConnect

Dev Community Apps & Creations
1

Hi everyone,

 

so I had PlexConnect running perfectly fine on my MacBook Pro, and I just bought a Mac Mini to use it as a dedicated PMS + PlexConnect server.

I did everything according to the manual (as I had previously) and really expected this to work... but it doesn't, at least not properly.

 

So, Plex works fine on the aTV after setting everything up, but nothing else does! I can't connect to the iTunes Store, watch a movie or do anything else other than Plex!

Just to be sure, I've completely wiped the aTV, the Mac Mini is brand new, running Yosemite (10.10.2) and I've followed the instructions on iBaa/PlexConnect on Github.

 

So here is the new setup:

aTV 3 (iOS 7.1) - IP 192.168.0.34 - DNS 192.168.0.27

 

PMS 0.9.11.7 - IP 192.168.0.27 (Static) on a

Mac Mini, Yosemite 10.10.2, Python 2.7.9

PlexConnect is latest from Github, as of today Monday 16 March, 2015

 

Router 192.168.0.1

 

Settings.cfg:

[PlexConnect]

enable_plexgdm = True
ip_pms = 192.168.178.10
port_pms = 32400
enable_dnsserver = True
port_dnsserver = 53
ip_dnsmaster = 8.8.8.8
prevent_atv_update = False
enable_plexconnect_autodetect = True
ip_plexconnect = 0.0.0.0
hosttointercept = trailers.apple.com
port_webserver = 80
enable_webserver_ssl = True
port_ssl = 443
certfile = ./assets/certificates/trailers.pem
allow_gzip_atv = False
allow_gzip_pmslocal = False
allow_gzip_pmsremote = True
loglevel = High
logpath = .
 
Logfile Output:
http://pastebin.com/SBasgbRt

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

2

You could try the app in my signature OpenPlex. My guess is it could be your Mac such as internet sharing, VPN, VM or antivirus. What’s your network layout from aTV to router and router to Mac mini? Ethernet, Ethernet converters (e.g. mocas), wifi?

3

Hi wahlman,


I have actually already tried your app, and the manual installation was to make sure that it wasn’t what was causing my issue. Well, the good news for you is that your app is not the problem! I get exactly the same issue.

4

See previous post.

5

Plexconnect seems to be working correctly, I wonder if there are issues with you connecting to googles DNS server.  Maybe try updating ip_dnsmaster = 8.8.8.8 and replace the 8.8.8.8 with the IP of your ISP's DNS server or your router, restart Plexconnect and see if it helps

6

@wahlman nothing is out of the ordinary, a plain simple network setup with a router connected to the internet, the atv and the plexconnect server are both connected to it via wifi. I don’t have a vpn set up, no proxies, no antivirus, all firewalls are turned off.

The weird thing is that while everything seems to be working in the log, the atv thinks otherwise. Plex on the atv works fine, but nothing else internet related does


@drewbie I think I already tried this but I’ll give it another try


My problem seems awfully similar to https://forums.plex.tv/topic/152818-plexconnect-sees-atv-requests-but-doesnt-respond/

But I didn’t really understand how Luketh fixed it

7

Ok guys thanks for all your help, I managed to fix it.

It looks like all of a sudden PlexConnect doesn't work with Google's DNS. I changed the ip_dnsmaster to my router's IP address and everything works perfectly fine!