Ethernet to KDL 37EX403

[athegn1]

I have lost, chimney collapse, the aerial connection to my KDL 37EX403 however I do have a working ethernet connection; If I plug the ethetnet cable into my laptop, with WiFi turned off, I get full functioning ethernet. The ethernet comes via a homeplug setup I.e over the house wiring;  paired Tplink DHP 306AV devices.

I have got the network connected to the TV but Server Diagnotics reports no server; if no server why does my laptop work very well?

TV network settings

Network setup complete; cable connection, local access, Internet Access all OK

Wired connections:-

IP address settings Auto

IP address 192.168.0.75 (braviaf45fe05fae43062b)
Sub net mask 255.255.255.0
Default gateway 192.168.0.1 (VirginHUB 3 this feeds the first 306AV device)
Primary DNS 194.168.4.100
Second DNS  194.168.8.100
No proxy server

I know it is an old TV but I thought it would work.

I have connected the ethernet cable to a Sony BDP S4500 blueray player and can run YouTube on this to the KDL. I tried BBC on the blueraybut got the "too large....." message.

Any advice please?

[royabrown2]

@athegn1 

See this very recent posting from someone who had the same issue:-

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/android-tv/can-t-access-nas-media-server/m-p/3924466#M62465

[athegn1]

Thank you for your reply but I have no app to repair.

Could it be that the IP or DNs address are at fault?

[LightFoot]

Hi @athegn1 

The server it cannot find is probably the Sony Entertainment Network. It was Sony’s middleware connection to the internet and available apps. I would be very surprised if it still existed. You would have needed a Sony Entertainment logon and password. This is all ancient stuff.

Your TV will be far too old to run the modern iPlayers so I don’t know what you are expecting to see by connecting it by Ethernet? There is no substitute for an aerial connection.

If you want the iPlayers to see things like BBC programming, then the best bet is a streaming stick like the Amazon Firestick or Roku. For example https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3269116

[athegn1]

Thank you for your reply.

Looks like have to replace aerial or buy a new smart TV?

[LightFoot]

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@athegn1 wrote:

Looks like have to replace aerial or buy a new smart TV?

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Hi @athegn1   You will still need an aerial with a new TV. A cheap streaming stick will give you everything included in a new smart TV apart from perhaps a bigger screen and 4K.

[royabrown2]

@athegn1 

There won’t be TV over Ethernet until 2024, with the launch of Freely, and that is going to require a new TV capable of receiving it.

Right now there is no substitute for an aerial; believe me, I have tried*

@LightFoot is quite right, thinking about it, that even if you get Ethernet working on your TV, there probably won’t be any apps working on it. And even modern TVs tend to have Players that take the view you don’t need live programmes because you get those from your aerial.

So, get a Roku Express or Amazon Firestick, £30-£50. HD would do for now, but the extra £10 for the 4K version would work perfectly well on your TV in HD for now, and blossom into 4K if you later buy a 4K TV.

All the broadcasters’ players on these have their live channels as well as catchup, and it won’t matter your TV is old; the Roku or Firestick will do all the heavy lifting, over WiFi, so any TV with a working HDMI socket and a screen will more than suffice.

*One room in our house without a TV point, the utility room where my wife does her ironing, and I bought a Smart TV for it, with four built-in apps for the main channels, BBC, ITV, C4, C5. But to watch the different channels, you can’t just press a Programme Up or Programme Down button, and you certainly can’t just press a few number keys; you have to exit one app and open another, and even then you have to find the live channel you want from the range that broadcaster offers.

All too much faff; so some nice men came and drilled through the wall to a room where there was a TV point, put on a splitter, and ran a cable from there through the wall, and along some channelling to where the TV is. Domestic harmony resumed….

[TheMaze]

Hi, 

IMO, the best option here is to get a streaming stick like the firestick, chromecast or any similar device, to get full internet capability in your TV screen without paying much for a whole new TV.