[How-To] Use eiri to use another remote control

[jamiroo]

[recliq]

nice howto! i think we should move this to wiki

[Proxx]

Many thanx jamiroo

now i have one remote for the whole HD TV experience

[simogere]

Amazing!

Good work!

[jamiroo]

[KAD]

sweeeet

i've gotta do this, thanks

[KAD]

well I can't seem to do this, can anybody help

I've successfuly navigated telnet to nano eri.conf and entered all the information, saved changes
run config tool
reboot

here's my problem, I'm trying to telnet to port 14247 so that I can get the ir codes but I get error
"cannot connect to remote host (127.0.0.1): connection refused"

any idea's why? gen1 titi had the same problem, I've got a live but same error message
http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=1401.60
as I read through, it's not really clear if they found a solution, one suggestion was that no telnet server is running, but I'm able to do other things in telnet, so any ideas?

if I netstat -an I don't see port 14247 listed, maybe somebody knows how I can open this port

KAD

[jamiroo]

[jamiroo]

yes, it's the port 14247 and you can telnet from the wd using telnet localhost 14247. in my home runs without problems.
the only you need is the file eiri.conf and the config_tool -c eiri=ON.

[KAD]

@jamiroo

thanks for the quick reply's I'll try again when I get home, I don't see anything different that you're suggesting, but maybe my eiri.conf isn't saving correctly, I thought it was, I'll also check to see that eiri is running, but I know I ran the config_tool, both via telnet and I tried the custom options with a reboot, as it can be activated that way as well.

suppose I'll be busy tonight, my dad made the switch from an original tvix to wdtvlive and wants me to set up his network tonight as well

KAD