Solved Can't Connect

[fegemo]

I am having the exact same issue - emulationstation does not recognize it's connected because the ping to recalbox.com fails. But kodi works fine.

Any updates on this?

Thanks!!!

[mazur]

@fegemo Not yet.. Waiting for 4.1 version..

[Mischler81]

Ping to recalbox.com does work for me now.

[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):

Picture 2 (using my 4G connection):

[mazur]

@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..

[Substring]

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

[Substring]

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" />

[rapid]

@Substring THX to Substring this Solution worked for me

[Substring]

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

[mazur]

@Substring For me worked just fine too!

[fegemo]

@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

[Substring]

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

[Ares2502]

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

[Substring]

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

[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.

[Substring]

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

[Ares2502]

@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!

[Substring]

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

[Ares2502]

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

[xtreemsurf]

@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...