Re: Pyro 4 help - please? :)

On 21-10-2014 22:02, Aaron Wylie wrote:

>>From Aaron 2: I've entered "192.168.1.147  GOATS" into the /etc/hosts file
> of the pi and I can how ping the windows box from the pi using the windows
> box name. Cool! Regarding setting up a DNS, is that something out-of-the-box
> with Windows 7, or do I need a 3rd party app?

Windows Server edition can run a dns server (I believe as part of active directory) but
setting it up is a windows admin task. Alternatively you can fire up another linux box
and run a dns server on that instead (should be a standard package such as bind).


>>From Aaron 2: I was able to use 'daemon = Pyro4.Daemon(host="pi-001")' and
> it registered with the nameserver (pi-001 is the name of the pi. Original, I
> know.)
> "frequency --> PYRO:obj_45212471e7c741a7b9d0b38f8b875094@pi-001:44441"
> Though, when I called the client.py script it gave me the same error that it
> was "actively refused". Weird, because pinging pi-001 from Windows 7 returns
> the pi ip address just fine.

Don't know what's going on there then, sorry.
Does pi-001 resolve to 192.168.1.139?

> BUT! When I use 'daemon = Pyro4.Daemon(host="192.168.1.139")' in the server
> function, everything registers and works! Yay!!
> I tried using Pyro4.socketutil.getIpAddress("hostnameofthePi") and it just
> returned 127.0.1.1 which doesn't help me from the windows 7 side. 
> I would prefer to stay away from hardcoded ip addresses if possible.

Try this: Pyro4.socketutil.getIpAddress("pi-001", workaround127=True)

Irmen


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