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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 @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 @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 @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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                                          • xtreemsurf
                                            xtreemsurf @digitaLumberjack last edited by

                                            @digitaLumberjack
                                            It's working now...thanks so much!

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