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    • Mischler81
      Mischler81 last edited by

      Ping to recalbox.com does work for me now.

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      • fegemo
        fegemo last edited by fegemo

        Hey guys. I did one test here. It is somehow related to my ISP. Whenever I try to reach (ping, traceroute) recalbox.com from my home Internet connection (picture 1), the packets all get lost. But if I try to reach the same address using my 4G connection (picture 2), it works just fine.

        Do you guys have any idea on the cause of this strange ISP-specific behavior?

        Picture 1 (using my home connection):

        0_1482342581948_traceroute-recalbox-from-home.png

        Picture 2 (using my 4G connection):

        1_1482342581952_traceroute-recalbox-from-4g.png

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        • mazur
          mazur @fegemo last edited by

          @fegemo I think is really some ISP problem.. because i use GVT/VIVO too.. and i get no connection, but i can connect with 4G like you.

          I tried today with last RecalBox (Unstable 4.1.0 build 63), same problem again..

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          • Substring
            Substring @mazur last edited by

            @mazur as we said : dns problem. @digitaLumberjack seems not t have taken care of it yet

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            • Substring
              Substring last edited by

              SOLUTION UNTIL IT IS FIXED UPSTREAM :
              edit ~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg and replace <string name="UpdateServer" value="recalbox.com" /> with <string name="UpdateServer" value="archive.recalbox.com" />

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              • rapid
                rapid @Substring last edited by

                @Substring THX to Substring this Solution worked for me 🙂

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                • Substring
                  Substring @rapid last edited by

                  @rapid to be honnest, it worked fror me too while i was testing a fiw in EmulationStation and it didn't work lol

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                  • mazur
                    mazur @Substring last edited by

                    @Substring For me worked just fine too!

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                    • fegemo
                      fegemo @Substring last edited by

                      @Substring thanks for the solution. I did something similar, which was to add an entry to the hosts file to make "recalbox.com" point to the IP of www.recalbox.com. To be able to do that, I had to remount the file system as writable. The commands were:

                      1. ssh root@192.168.X.X and then type the default password for the root user (described in the wiki)
                      2. mount -o remount,rw /
                      3. echo "163.172.165.227 recalbox.com" >> /etc/hosts
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                      • Substring
                        Substring @fegemo last edited by

                        @fegemo this is much more complicated and would blow up on update. But glad it worked for you 🙂

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                        • Ares2502
                          Ares2502 @Substring last edited by

                          @Substring Did not work for me. 😞 Connection status still shows "not connected" although the Box is cabled and assigned an IP adress.

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                          • Substring
                            Substring @Ares2502 last edited by

                            @Ares2502 can you paste your es_settings.cfg on pastebin please ?

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                            • rapid
                              rapid last edited by rapid

                              For all of you who have your games on an USB device or hdd. Then you need to change the settings on /media/usb0/recalbox/system/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg.
                              usb0 depends on your system. could also be usb1 ect. just try it out which one fits for you

                              So for people who have their games on an USB / hdd device try edit

                              /media/usbXY/recalbox/system/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg and replace

                              <string name="UpdateServer" value="recalbox.com" /> with
                              <string name="UpdateServer" value="archive.recalbox.com" />

                              edit: looks like this not really works. after reboot the es_settings.cfg is back to default for me.

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                              • Substring
                                Substring last edited by

                                For people who are uneasy at editing the file, juste paste this in SSH : /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation stop && sed -i "s+recalbox\.com+archive\.recalbox\.com+g" ~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg && /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation start

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                                • Ares2502
                                  Ares2502 @Substring last edited by

                                  @Substring said in Can't Connect:

                                  /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation stop && sed -i "s+recalbox.com+archive.recalbox.com+g" ~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg && /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation start

                                  Thanks for your help! this actually worked. After editing the cfg with vi it was changed back to default after a reboot. Your comand line parameter actually worked!

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                                  • Substring
                                    Substring @Ares2502 last edited by Substring

                                    @Ares2502 That's because ES rewrites the values, so we need to shut it down before modifying the file 🙂

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                                    • Ares2502
                                      Ares2502 @Substring last edited by

                                      @Substring Thanks again! Makes perfectly sense, when explained this way!

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                                      • xtreemsurf
                                        xtreemsurf @Substring last edited by

                                        @Substring said in Can't Connect:

                                        @Ares2502 That's because ES rewrites the values, so we need to shut it down before modifying the file 🙂

                                        How do you shut it down before modifying this file from the "share" folder...connecting from a PC? Thanks for your help on this...

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                                          Substring @xtreemsurf last edited by

                                          @xtreemsurf just run my big command

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                                          • digitaLumberjack
                                            digitaLumberjack Staff last edited by

                                            It should be ok now.

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