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gfoldv
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Probably you have entered a newline character in the ip field in the host settings
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I'm getting crazy here, do I really have to uninstall, and reinstall XBMC to solve this? Any dev that might shed some light? As i said the remote works but i get the illegal characther message ALL THE TIME, and when someone calls playback isn't paused. And i can't view my shows or my movies.
I tried installing a new instance of XBMC in another location, but it looked exactly the same, i guess all settings is saves in my profile.
I really don't want to uninstall XBMC and loose all my settings.
Anyone??!
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having the same issue - ill post back here with a solution if its found.
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the_alien
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You entered an illegal character in the ip or host field. Most likely you pressed enter in the host field. Reenter all connection settings and make sure you don't hit the enter button.
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freezy
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Did you also check there is no space after your IP?
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2012-03-18, 01:03
(This post was last modified: 2012-03-18, 01:11 by TSellers.)
This whole situation with these errors is a bit odd. I was getting the I/O Error as well. So I changed my port. When that made no difference I did a Port Forward in my router for that port on the IP that XBMC is running on. Made no difference. I checked settings and found a trailing space after the IP. Subsequent to deleting the trailing space I got a new result: 'HTTP 410 Unauthorized'. Go back and add the trailing space I get the I/O error again. Go back and try yet another port, and get the HTTP error again, but the remote still seems to work anyway. Go back and add the trailing space, and get the I/O error again, but the remote still seems to work anyway.
You'd think that after dozens of users in the Market reviews (which the Dev's apparently only read at random for the purpose of 'amusement' (their words on the Market, not mine)) note they have the same problem, and more than a year down the road, they'd have it figured out (along with the tiny unreadable fonts) by now?
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Changing the port to something other than 8080 worked for me. Something else on the Ubuntu install was using 8080