Announce: (not so) Sirius Plugin

[flemming]

Hi Robert.

Unfortunately, I'm no longer getting Sirius Canada on my Squeezebox. The error message displayed on it when trying to connect is:

Unable to retrieve channel information. Invalid channel id (channel line may have change).

The server log file includes the following text:

Not much interesting in the log since there is no specific debugging for this plugin enabled. This is the same error message someone got when the Sirius website was under maintenance. I just checked now and it's working fine for Canada. So either they had some sort of maintenance again or I have a session timeout type of problem, which is entirely possible. You may need to restart SqueezeCenter for yours to come back to life. Let me know if it happens again, and I'll see if I can find a timeout problem.

Robert

[rick.leech]

Thanks for this reply Robert.

I restarted my computer and restarted the squeezebox application. Unfortunately, still no connection. The squeezebox message now says "Captcha mismatch". The connection has been gone for a few days now, so I don't think it is a Siruis maintenance issue.

If there is anything I can do to assist in sorting this out, please let me know.

All the best. Rick.

[flemming]

Thanks for this reply Robert.

I restarted my computer and restarted the squeezebox application. Unfortunately, still no connection. The squeezebox message now says "Captcha mismatch". The connection has been gone for a few days now, so I don't think it is a Siruis maintenance issue.

If there is anything I can do to assist in sorting this out, please let me know.

All the best. Rick.

I just restarted SqueezeCenter and was able to make a new connection to Sirius Canada. You can turn on debugging by setting $debug = 1 in NotSoSirius/lib/Sirius/Sirius.pm and restarting, that will provide a little more info as to what the backend is doing in the squeezecenter log. A captcha mismatch is a pretty specific error and it doesn't look like sirius.ca changed their captchas so I'm not quite sure how that could happen.

Robert

[jojopuppyfish]

I, too, am also having the same problem again....I have the usa feed.

[flemming]

I, too, am also having the same problem again....I have the usa feed.

I can't reproduce this for either the US or Canadian sites. Both are working just fine. Without any debugging info I'm at a loss here because everything seems okay to me.

Robert

[jojopuppyfish]

Here is my server.log file with the debug turned on.

[flemming]

Here is my server.log file with the debug turned on.

What's there looks totally fine. It logged you in and obtained all the channel information. I don't see any attempt at playing a stream, but from the looks of things here it's fine. What sort of error are you seeing? There's no way it's a captcha mismatch because it wouldn't have gotten the channel list if that was the case.

Robert

[rick.leech]

I just restarted SqueezeCenter and was able to make a new connection to Sirius Canada. You can turn on debugging by setting $debug = 1 in NotSoSirius/lib/Sirius/Sirius.pm and restarting, that will provide a little more info as to what the backend is doing in the squeezecenter log. A captcha mismatch is a pretty specific error and it doesn't look like sirius.ca changed their captchas so I'm not quite sure how that could happen.

Robert

Thanks for this Robert.

I am no longer getting the captcha mismatch error message. The message is back to Unable to retrieve channel data. I turned on debugging for the plug in (hopefully) and I have attached the server log file. Hope this helps and again many thanks for your help.

Cheers. Rick.

[jojopuppyfish]

What's there looks totally fine. It logged you in and obtained all the channel information. I don't see any attempt at playing a stream, but from the looks of things here it's fine. What sort of error are you seeing? There's no way it's a captcha mismatch because it wouldn't have gotten the channel list if that was the case.

Robert

The error msg says "Unable to Retrieve channel ID, channel lineup may have changed

[flemming]

Thanks for this Robert.

I am no longer getting the captcha mismatch error message. The message is back to Unable to retrieve channel data. I turned on debugging for the plug in (hopefully) and I have attached the server log file. Hope this helps and again many thanks for your help.

Cheers. Rick.

Is the error "Unable to retrieve channel info."? If so then I'm pretty sure I know what's going on. That error is actually from the official Sirius plugin not mine. I elected to use the same URL style syntax (sirius://) for identifying channels that the official plugin uses. This may have been a bad idea because conflicts can potentially occur. Make sure that the official Sirius plugin is explicitly disabled via Settings/Plugins and that you don't have it enabled via My Apps if you're using 7.4 I'm hoping this is the problem because that would explain why my plugin wasn't logging an attempt to access the stream and why I was confused by the error message (because it's not one of mine).

Robert