Newbie troubles

[sweetie]

I have just installed Slingfront on my Windows 7 Pro. I have previously used IE & Chrome plugins to watch my older Slingbox. I just bought a M1 and need the proxy support that Sling has left out.

When I go to launch Slingfront, I get the following message:

'Slingplayer ActiveX control is not installed. Do you want to download the Slingplayer ActiveX Control?'

Answering yes starts the WebSlingPlayer ActiveX Installer but it fails with message:

'Unable to install because a new version of this product is already installed'

I still can't launch Slingfront due to the original error. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[oviano]

Yeah just go into the Windows control panel and uninstall the Slingplayer plugin. This should allow SlingFront to install the older version of the plugin that it requires.

Of course if you then later try and view a Slingbox via the website it'll try and reinstall the newer plugin which will then stop SlingFront from working...

[sweetie]

Thanks that worked!

[oviano]

By the way, there is another way to get proxy support working with the M1.

If you go to the Sling viewing website and put in the proxy settings there you should find the desktop Slingplayer for the M1 picks up these settings.

In fact you may even find that having entered them in SlingFront allows them to be picked up too.

It seems they are stored centrally somewhere on your PC where both the website and the desktop player can pick them up.

If you're intending to view on a TV then SlingFront plus a suitable remote control is a better option though anyway.

[karl10247]

Any chance we can get slingfront to use the updated web plugin? Sometimes a few tweaks are needed to the slingbox configuration which is only accessible from the web client. Currently you would have to install the new plugin, change settings, reinstall slingfront and older web plugin just to make a change

Cheers

[oviano]

Any chance we can get slingfront to use the updated web plugin? Sometimes a few tweaks are needed to the slingbox configuration which is only accessible from the web client. Currently you would have to install the new plugin, change settings, reinstall slingfront and older web plugin just to make a change

Cheers

http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/13680-siingfront-not-working-with-latest-activex-plugin/