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Hello! There is a weird situation the streaming port defined in openwebif (8080) is not open. It used to work fine in the past, then for some time I wasn't using streaming, so I cannot pinpoint which upgrade broke it.

I have tried to set different port, but no joy.

I'm trying to stream from the same lan, but eventually it comes down to the fact that the streaming port is not open on the box, i.e `netstat -lnp | grep 8080` is empty.

VU+ Solo2 Linux vusolo2 3.13.5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 7 05:19:36 UTC 2023 mips GNU/Linux

 

Running openpli-9.0-release-vusolo2-20240610.

Any clues where to look?

Running

[WanWizard]

Since when is 8080 a streaming port? Hint: since never.

 

If it was so in the past, you've changed the configuration.

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I am not saying it is the default port for streaming. I might have changed it to 8080 in the past at some point. I have this stb for about 10 years already so it's hard to remember what was the original port. But streaming was working fine on 8080 and now it is not. So I am trying to understand where to look for any hints why the 8080 is not open.

[WanWizard]

So what have you changed ?

 

The default streaming port is 8001, and is configured in the OpenWebif ( menu - plugins - Openwebif Configuration - OK, at the bottom ).

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We're getting somewhere. 8001 is indeed the streaming port, however it isn't following the configuration, which is 8080 and is added in the stream urls, e.g:
 

#EXTM3U 
#EXTVLCOPT:http-reconnect=true 
http://vusolo2.mrv:8080/1:0:1:28:2:212C:1860000:0:0:0:

 

Reverting the port to 8001 makes the links work, as they are now using the correct port.

But it still makes me wonder when did it break and stopped following the configuration.

[WanWizard]

Did you restart the box after changing the streaming port?

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Yes, it still persists on 8001.

[WanWizard]

Looked into it.

 

In the original design of Enigma, streaming ran on port 8002, and was exposed to the outside world via a streamproxy built into OpenWebif, by default using 8001, but configurable.

 

In 2011, this was entirely moved into the Enigma core code (and C++ code), on the hardcoded port 8001 (https://github.com/O...server.cpp#L315), the streamproxy is no longer used.

 

So, you are comparing apples with a bunch of very old pears.

 

And as the 8001 is hardcoded, you should indeed not change the config of OpenWebif, as that value is used to generate the stream url's in the webif.

[trendy]

Thank you for the explanation!

Maybe then it would make sense to remove the option for streaming port from OpeWebif, as changing it it will only break things?

[WanWizard]

I have to pass that on to a developer.

 

I will probably better to remove the hardcoded port and make it configurable again.

[trendy]

Thank you for the passing on to the developers

Yes, following the configuration from OpenWebif also makes sense!