PlexConnect on Windows 10 failed to connect (RESOLVED)

Haha honestly I was not a fan of any Anti-Virus software, after years of experiences you kinda have a good idea what not to touch anyway XD But I put AVG just cuz i dont have much good experience with others, McAfee was pretty good. Never tried Eset Smart Security though so I’ll check it out!

@Skullzy said:
I’m not an AVG fan, I’m more Eset Smart Security… I have that set so that I know every connection coming in and or out of my computer.

hahaha true true, thanks for making me feek better :stuck_out_tongue:

@Skullzy said:
Even the smartest minds have their dumb moments :wink:

I found this suggestion to fix this issue. Option 2 worked for me.

If Port 80 is being blocked try this

Just follow these steps to diagnose and resolve your issue:

1. Get pid that is listening port 80: netstat -nao | find “:80″

2. Open task manager, go to processes tab and check “PID” in Menu/View/Select Columns…, then look for the process using the PID found in last step.

3. If it is a normal application or IIS, disable it or uninstall. Some programs (such as Skype) have the option to disable its use of port 80.

4. If it is a System Process—PID 4—you need to disable the HTTP.sys driver which is started on demand by another service, such as Windows Remote Management or Print Spooler.

There is two ways to disable it but the first one is safer:
1.

	* Go to device manager, select “show hidden devices” from menu/view, go to “Non-Plug and Play Driver”/HTTP, double click it to disable it (or set it to manual, some services depended on it).

	* Reboot and use netstat -nao | find “:80″ to check if 80 is still used.


5. 2.

	* Launch RegEdit.

	* Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP

	* Change the value of "start" to 4, which means disabled.

	* Reboot your computer.

i’ve had the same problem. uninstalling the microsoft messaging app solved my problems :slight_smile:

Let me add my thanks to you for this solution. I was stumped by this one for a couple of days! As prescribed, I stopped the WWW publishing service, restarted PlexConnect.py, and everything is working again.

if you get this error:

Failed to connect to HTTP on 192.168.106.130 port 80: [Errno 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions:

I have a solution that worked for me. I was using Plexconnect regularly with no issues and one day I went to boot and received this error. I looked everywhere and ran the command to see what was using port 443. I found my PID 4 which was my kernel listening on that port. I tried to think what i could have done or installed since the last time my plexconnect was working.

ANSWER I realized I had created a VPN connection for myself to connect to when I am not on my home network. This connection was setup in my adapter connection settings in my network settings as an incoming connection. The moment I disabled/deleted this incoming connection profile plexconnect booted right up and I haven’t had an issue since.