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namtih · 25th Dec, 2012, 10:18 PM

I've grabbed the installer from the "Getting Started" page, but it can't connect to the server:
"Unable to connect to the XBian server".

I've checked the souce code at github and referred xml file. I'm able to ping the given server there and I was also able to manually download the Alpha3 file, rename it to img and copy it to the SD card through the advanced options.

The system is Win7 64bit.

Koenkk · 25th Dec, 2012, 10:41 PM

Can you redownload the installer and try again? We did a little update yesterday.

namtih · 25th Dec, 2012, 10:49 PM

Nope, sorry.
Downloaded it again from the "Getting started" guide, but same issue.

Koenkk · 26th Dec, 2012, 12:52 AM

This error is thrown once it cannot find/parse the versions xml file (located here: https://raw.github.com/xbianonpi/wiki/master/mirrors.xml ). Are you sure you can access this file? For me it works (so I can't do any debugging Sad

). If you have any C# knowledge (and Visual Studio 2012) you could do some debugging.

namtih · 26th Dec, 2012, 01:02 AM

Sorry, I don't have any C# knowledge.
But I've noticed one thing:
I'm using Firefox and I can open the xml file without any problems or further prompts. I've also tried the IE 8 now and there I get a certification warning first, which I have to accept. After an click on "Load this website" it opens the xml file.

So perhaps an certification issue?
You could try to edit the link to http and I would try it again for a first verification.

Koenkk · 26th Dec, 2012, 01:09 AM

Should be fixed in this version: https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian-installer-windows/blob/master/Binary/latest.zip . Can you confirm this?

namtih · 26th Dec, 2012, 01:19 AM

Yep, it's working now. No error message and I can choose between 2 archives.
Thanks.

Koenkk · 26th Dec, 2012, 01:22 AM

Thanks you 2 for helping me! Merry christmas Smile

Vagos · 22nd Jan, 2013, 11:11 PM

I face the same problem in two different computers in two different networks.
Both of them are Win7 X64.

I had managed to manually install the 1Alpha4 once with win32diskimager-binary but yet again I couldn't access the packager in xbian-config. I had to wait for updating packages for hours. After hard reset the system died.

It seems that I cannot access the servers even by using Pi.

After this manual installation I couldn't install it again since I couldn't boot at all even on fresh copies.

Any tips? A friend of mine can access the server without any problems. He can even access the packager inside config. Sad

brantje · 24th Jan, 2013, 01:40 AM

What server are you trying?

Vagos · 24th Jan, 2013, 06:07 AM

(24th Jan, 2013 01:40 AM)brantje Wrote: What server are you trying?

What do you mean? I cannot connect to xbian server through installer. I dont know which server is.

Koenkk · 24th Jan, 2013, 06:58 AM

this error means it can't get the .xml file

Vagos · 24th Jan, 2013, 07:01 AM

(24th Jan, 2013 06:58 AM)Koenkk Wrote: this error means it can't get the .xml file

Ok so I took the xml file from here

https://raw.github.com/xbianonpi/wiki/ma...irrors.xml

pasted it inside the folder (where the installer is), but I still have the same problem. Sad

mannix · 24th Jan, 2013, 11:35 PM

(24th Jan, 2013 07:01 AM)Vagos Wrote: pasted it inside the folder (where the installer is), but I still have the same problem.

The images are not available, the xml file si ok.
If you try to download from:
http://jb.xenserver.sk/xbian/0.8.3.tar.gz
You get a 404 error message, it looks the installer isn't capable to handle http errors.

Vagos · 24th Jan, 2013, 11:43 PM

Sorry I dont understand. I'm getting the Xbian installer from here: http://xbian.org/download/

I unzip the file to a folder, I'm running Xbian installer, I am waiting for a few seconds and I get the following message:

"Unable to connect to the XBian server".

Is there a way for me to select the server? Seems not since this software is pretty basic to make any user mistakes.

So the question again is: How to overcome this?