I cant get it to work either

OTOH, I never tried a remote connection to VLC on my desktop, so I don't know if it should work with my setup at all.

Here's what happens:

When I enter the IP address (10.0.0.4), the input field stays red. I take this as an indication that the application assumes this is an invalid IP address. I can work around this by changing the input to 10.00.00.04, but I really unsure what this is about and why this happens.

Port 8080 is accepted.

But there' no reaction whatsoever on VLC when I press any of the buttons. Plus, whenever I go to the settings page again, all the fields are empty. It seems the application forgets all my input as soon as I leave the settings page.

http://localhost:8080/ gives me the expected web interface.

Im using VLC 2.0.8 on Ubuntu. AFAIK, I have to allow incoming connections from the VLC .hosts file in /etc/vlc/lua/http, which i did by uncommenting the respective lines.

Now I'm lost...