Hey Brian, Happy New Year!

A few years ago I made a CMC service to listen on port 51408, so that your My Movies Pro Android/iOS app could remote control CMC, starting movie playback and pressing buttons and such, since WMC is dead. This worked really well, and My Movies/CMC users love using the your app to browse their collection, and to initiate playback to a CMC PC.

Recently some users informed me this isn't working anymore. I've spent quite a bit of troubleshooting, and the app simply does not connect anymore. I finally installed a sniffer on my phone, and discovered that when connecting to a "Host PC", the My Movies app now uses port 51414 instead of 51408. When I change the Type to Media Center Extender 1, the port changes to 51409, and Media Centers 2-5 are 51410-51413. None use 51408.

I've also noticed that the old My Movies Pro 3 no longer connects either, and also uses port 51414 for Host PC connections. I'm guessing your developer team pushed out an app update, for both My Movies Pro 3 & 4, that changed this port #.

Which brings us to my questions:

Was this an intentional change or an accidental change? I'm not sure if I need to change my app to listen on port 51414 instead of 51408, or if you will be changing back to 51408 on your end.

I thought 51414 was a legacy data port that you used to use for a My Movies tray service. Is it now okay for me to listen in on 51414, or will I be competing for that port with one of your services? I don't want to step on your toes or cause problems. Obviously, this would only matter if a user had both My Movies and CMC installed on the same PC, which is a valid but optional configuration. Me personally, I only run My Movies on my server, and CMC on my HTPC's connect to it over the network, so there would be no competition in that configuration.

I appreciate your guidance, thanks!
Paul

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Chameleon MediaCenter (CMC) v7.0 - A FREE WMC replacement GUI for My Movies Collection Management on Win7/8.1/10/11, plus a Music Library and App Launcher!

In my testing, version 3 doesn't work anymore either, due to the port number change affecting both versions.

Are you saying that if I change to listening on port 51414, it will work again with v3 but not v4?

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Chameleon MediaCenter (CMC) v7.0 - A FREE WMC replacement GUI for My Movies Collection Management on Win7/8.1/10/11, plus a Music Library and App Launcher!

Version 5, is that out?

I modified my code to work with port 51414 in addition to 51408. I find that the app only uses 51414 to initiate a connection, then 51408 to communicate all commands. The good news is that the remote is working again, both with version 3 and with version 4.

So now that it is working again, I'm concerned that you're pulling it out of v5. Why pull it out if it is working?

Is it possible that we are talking about two different things?

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Chameleon MediaCenter (CMC) v7.0 - A FREE WMC replacement GUI for My Movies Collection Management on Win7/8.1/10/11, plus a Music Library and App Launcher!

Please do not strip this code out. It is working for us Android/CMC users.
Without the Android app's ability to launch any media on an external device, the app is little more than a list of our collections. We're already able to view our collections in the online collection and in Collection Management on a Windows PC, so it would be nice to actually have a reason to continue using/purchasing the Android application.