Marcs Updater - Discussion

There have been some reports about issues with the Updater not updating anymore. Please try the latest beta version and switch to another IP Check provider instead of the previous default dnsomatic.com. For some reason they are rate-limiting the number of requests to their service. The new IP Check provider selection allows you to choose another provider in such cases. You can test the functionality with the new "Test" panel.

If you want to add a custom provider to the unstable testing version, store a JSON file like the following under %PROGRAMDATA%\Marcs Updater\ServiceProviders\dyndns.json:

{
    "name": "DynDNS.org (Test)",
    "endpoint": "https://members.dyndns.org/nic/update",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryString": "hostname={HOSTNAME}&myip={MYIP}",
    "dataPayload": "",
    "defaults": {
        "username": "test",
        "password": "test",
        "hostname": "test1.customtest.dyndns.org"
    }
}

Supported query and payload tags are {USERNAME}, {PASSWORD}, {HOSTNAME} and {MYIP}. Restart the background service and foreground application to apply any changes.

Discussion created on July 1, 2014

Posted on July 1, 2014 5:19 a.m.

Micha wrote:

Hi Marc,
I'm using Windows Home Server 2011 (equal to Win7) and running your app to STRATO.
Unfortunately it doesn't work. Any update on that.
Micha

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Posted on July 1, 2014 6:46 p.m.

Marc wrote:

Hi Micha, unfortunately I don't have a Windows Home Server 2011 to test on. You could however setup the environment variable LOGLEVEL to 7 and take a look into the folder "%PROGRAMDATA%\Marcs Updater" after restarting. There should be some logs that might give a clue about the problem.
Best regards,
Marc

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