Can often not connect to Emby

[Bobwood 6]

1 minute ago, Lessaj said:

While you can have each router with its own subnets I see little reason to do this for your setup, but if you are going to do that then they should have different SSIDs because they're not part of the same network, they have different subnets and both are running their own DHCP server and probably other services. If you're not going to use the second router as an access point extension of the first router then yes connecting to it with an ethernet cable will give you an address from that router (on your 10.0.0.0/24 network) and you can access the default gateway (probably 10.0.0.1) and make your changes. It may be helpful to disconnect or disable wifi when trying to do this.

So i need to change the second routers SSID? i tried now and cant connect to it either by wifi or lan cable. I will try again with your suggestion of disabling the wifi so i can connect to the second router. So i need to just change second wifi SSID, is that all?

[Lessaj 467]

5 minutes ago, Bobwood said:

So i need to change the second routers SSID? i tried now and cant connect to it either by wifi or lan cable. I will try again with your suggestion of disabling the wifi so i can connect to the second router. So i need to just change second wifi SSID, is that all?

That will give you the isolation between your connection points, yes, so you know for sure which one you are connected to and which one you need to access the management page of to make changes. It looks like the second router is using the first one for DNS based on your screenshot from your TV with the DNS as 192.168.3.1, but if it's providing 10.0.0.0/24 addresses it's running its own DHCP server, so it's a downstream network and not part of the same network as the first router.

[Bobwood 6]

Now my laptop has connected to the second router after messing around with trying to get the Unify working trying to find the power cable, plugged lan cable back into the router and my laptop assigned this ip, so now Emby is working until it switches back to the main router. Will try find power cable for Unify POE tomorrow. Im assuming this might be better at managing the network?

[Bobwood 6]

What settings must i change? SSID name and it was on bridge, so change to what?

[visproduction 315]

8 hours ago, Bobwood said:

Can you please elaborate, i dont follow "Try embedding the remote IP address, when you get that working, on some hidden website page that is not linked to by the main web page. Perhaps linking with an image click.  Then aim the TV browser to the website that you are admin on, go to the hidden page and click on the link.  That will often bypass the built in TV browser limit on going to IP addresses." at all. 

Make sure you have a remote IP access up and running correctly first. Use a desktop browser to check this.  Please do follow all the steps.  There are more setups to do, than you probably imagine.

Then if the TV Browser App access still fails, and if you have a website that you control, then try adding a page secretaccess.html.  On this page put some image or other link aimed at your remote IP address for the Emby server. <a href="http://205.123.###.###" alt="link to my server" target="_blank"><img src="./forestscene.jpg"><br>My super M-server</a>

Some browsers, especially apps running on TV's just refuse to go directly to an IP address.  If you put in the URL line 205.123.###.###, the app sees it as invalid and either gives you an alert, "That address does not work..."  or it passes the number automatically to a search engine, which, of course, goes nowhere. Apple / Safari is particuarly bad at doing this all the time.   I think there are even desktop and tablet browsers that block direct IP addresses.  Sometimes, opening an incognito tab helps, sometimes even that does not work.  TV browser Apps just block these all the time and LG limits what apps you can load and they may even block all browser apps.  Having a link on a real webpage that you can click to go to the IP address might work with some browsers.

Of course, if you splurge and get an SSL certification, your server will get it's own domain name URL type link and you don't need to fiddle with the IP address anymore.  That can help.

Hope that makes sense.

[Lessaj 467]

4 hours ago, Bobwood said:

What settings must i change? SSID name and it was on bridge, so change to what?

At minimum you should change the SSID name so that all your devices are connected to the same point. How does the Unifi come into play exactly? Is it connected to the DLink and being powered with POE and used as an additional WAP?

I'm not familiar with the DLink configuration options but while trying to look into it a little I came across a video for setting up a DLink as a wireless access point which is from a different model but the web configuration pages look the same so I think there is good information in this video which you may find helpful. In this example this would be expanding upon the current network, rather than acting as a separate one which is I think what the Bridge mode setting is doing. I'm not sure if this is what you want to be doing with connecting to your landlords network but if you were already connecting to it then extending the network shouldn't be an issue, you may want to confirm that.

 

[Bobwood 6]

8 hours ago, Lessaj said:

At minimum you should change the SSID name so that all your devices are connected to the same point. How does the Unifi come into play exactly? Is it connected to the DLink and being powered with POE and used as an additional WAP?

I'm not familiar with the DLink configuration options but while trying to look into it a little I came across a video for setting up a DLink as a wireless access point which is from a different model but the web configuration pages look the same so I think there is good information in this video which you may find helpful. In this example this would be expanding upon the current network, rather than acting as a separate one which is I think what the Bridge mode setting is doing. I'm not sure if this is what you want to be doing with connecting to your landlords network but if you were already connecting to it then extending the network shouldn't be an issue, you may want to confirm that.

 

The Unify was connected where the link now is, there were renovations so it was a temporary solution. Now I can't find the POE power cable. Thanks for the video, I will change SSID or setup like in video or alternatively get a power cable and setup the Unify as I think it will manage the network more intelligently. Thanks for your help