How to configure IP address for FTA (Nova's nFusion) PVR IP recording...

Greetings Peers,

I just got my Time Capsule (TC) yesterday and absolutely have very limited experience with Airport Utility or networking - that said I somehow figured out how to setup a new secured wireless network and it is up & running!

I'm testing this absolute great Free-to-Air (FTA) satellite receiver called *Nova nFusion* where there is a functionality option to record your personal video (PVR) on a IP address.

Here's my dilemma, I have tried punching in IP address from what AirPort Utility (AU) displays for Time Capsule (TC) several times but receiver *would fail* to record anything!

I have tried to tweak general settings like enabling sharing in the manual setup for TC under AU but like I said I'm not an expert and it didn't work.


Wondering:

1) If anyone has success setting up similar PVR over IP?

2) Is this even feasible? Honestly, I don't see why not? Cause I'm also planning to have move my iTunes library folder on TC so I could access it from my Mac Mini, iBook, AppleTV, etc. etc.

I have high hopes specially since I care less and actually do not want to utilize Time Machine feature at all! I'm sure you geniuses have already figured this out. Please HELP!!!

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated-
Cheers!

MacPro (work) iBook (home) Mac Mini (home) AppleTV Time Capsule (7.3.2), Mac OS X (10.5.4), | 50" Samsung Plasma HDTV for Mac Mini | 30"  Cinema Display for MacPro

Posted on Jul 23, 2008 3:33 PM

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Jul 24, 2008 1:53 PM in response to Tapori

it sounds like the potential issue may be using your TC as a IP hard drive (TC as opposed to a simple LACiE network drive).

and again, i'm not claiming to know how to solve the issue, just trying to see if i can help you troubleshoot a bit.

_i found this post on a user forum for your product:_
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Re: nfusion nova pvr??
For PVR with the Nfusion you need to install a software on your computer and this will create a PVR Server on your computer harddisk , so you can record directly from your STB on your computer harddisk.

Here is the software you need:
Nfusion IPPVR Beta version 3.0b
http://www.abadss.com/forum/831-nfus...3-release.html

To get IPPVR 3.0b to work with XP check also this sticky from arboristman:
http://www.abadss.com/forum/830-nfus...b-work-xp.html

In this sticky, I think in the example given by arboristman the PVR Server IP Adress 192.168.001.103 has to be the same as the Computers IP 198.168.1.103 not 192.168....etc
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Jul 24, 2008 9:53 AM in response to BKRonline

I've been trying the IP address which shows up on the welcome screen of AirPort Utility but that could be very much TC's Router Address cause it's showing up in AirPort Utility?

How can I acquire IP address for TC's language 1TB Hard Drive? It can't be this difficult!

BKRonline,

Good suggestion but how do you assign a static IP to a Mac Mini which is on the same network (both wiredly and wirelessly connected to TC)?

Appreciated!

Jul 24, 2008 1:40 PM in response to Tapori

Tapori wrote:
I've been trying the IP address which shows up on the welcome screen of AirPort Utility but that could be very much TC's Router Address cause it's showing up in AirPort Utility?
How can I acquire IP address for TC's language 1TB Hard Drive? It can't be this difficult!


well, as i'm digging deeper, finding the ip address isn't the issue, it's getting your software to record to it, maybe a permissions issue?

is this open source? can i check it out and see if i can help you this way? if i can get my hands on it i'm pretty sure i'd be more help. if the software just needs an ip address, you got it... so there's another issue. it's in your internal network right? so internal ip's should be fine, no need to port forward...

just brainstorming out loud.

Good suggestion but how do you assign a static IP to a Mac Mini which is on the same network (both wiredly and wirelessly connected to TC)?


open network prefs, select your ethernet connection, configure: using dhcp with manual address, enter ip address (even if it's the same as your DHCP address, this simply assigns it permantly), click apply.

if you wanted to do this over the wireless network you'd choose the airport from the left, advanced, tcp/ip tab, configure IPv4: using dhcp with manual address, enter ip address (even if it's the same as your DHCP address, this simply assigns it permantly), configure IPv6: automatically, click apply.

the ethernet connection would have a different IP than your wireless connection to give you the option to switch back and forth while maintaining assigned connectivity elsewhere in your network (ie. pvr ip recording).

i'm just curious what permissions the pvr ip recorder would have, and where exactly it would record to... (as in which folder... as what user?)

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