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bklavet / Echo-skill-to-control-Directv

amazon echo skill that will control a networked Directv Receiver so that users can control Directv with their voice
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WAN #42

Closed erinnire5 closed 6 years ago

erinnire5 commented 7 years ago

Hi. I am very new to Alexa skills so pardon me if this is my ignorance. I went through the Youtube tutorial and am testing the skills on developer.amazon.com and continue to get the error 'The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.' when I enter 'go to cnn'. I have been trying to troubleshoot. I ensured the reciever was set to allow external access, setup port 8080 forwarding on my Netgear Nighthawk, can pause the directv from my LAN but cannot figure out/get it to pause it on the WAN. I entered this on my cell phone http://2910:6600:1706:k653:7f89:8678:n988:g82g:8080/remote/processKey?key=pause&hold=keyPress (I changed characters for security). I entered with both colons and without. What am I missing? Thereceiver model is HR44/500 so I dont believe its a mini genie.

vmweaver commented 7 years ago

So it looks like you have an IPv6 address..... Sometimes IPv6 addresses need to have square brackets around them "[" and "]" followed by colon ":" then the port number 8080.

so:
http://[2910:6600:1706:k653:7f89:8678:n988:g82g]:8080/remote/processKey?key=pause&hold=keyPress

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erinnire5 commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the quick response. I attempted with the brackets and still get an error page. Any other ideas?

erinnire5 commented 7 years ago

I was reading about the MAC address and thought id try but where would i get this info from? The router or the directv?

vmweaver commented 7 years ago

​If you don't need to use the MAC address when calling internally, you shouldn't need to specify it with a remote call. Some providers will block inbound ports or at least SOME inbound ports.. so there may be some other things outside of your control. You could TRY to change your port forwarding/triggering config to create your external listener on port 80 and your internal port will be 8080. So External Port Range from 80 to 80 and Internal Port Range from 8080 to 8080 and see if that is any better.

Not sure if this will interfere with your router's native web ui, though.

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vmweaver commented 6 years ago

@erinnire5 - Just following up on this issue. Did you get it figured out?

vmweaver commented 6 years ago

I don't believe that Amazon Lambda functions can call to an IPv6 address. Many ISPs are "dual mode"ing customer customer connections. This means your router would have both and IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. There are several places that will tell you both, but your mileage may vary. Try: http://whatismyip.host/ As such I am closing this out and we should be updating the guidance to use IPv4.