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rellikzephyr · 2011-09-17 15:18:10

Hi

unfortunately none of the onboard dlna server packages work completely right for me

now i know of a good server and they even supply a .ipk file for this type of box (ive noticed installing packages using .ipk files to install)

so im wondering how to install these packages from an outside source? or even jcard if your nice enough, add this to your list of packages

the server is called TVmobili and have a web address of www.tvmobili.com

with instructions please take into account i am basically a linux virgin

Thanks again for the great firmware for my 323

RellikZephyr

jcard · 2011-09-18 23:19:09

Unfortunately TVmobili needs library libstdc++.so.5 and Alt-F uses /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6, so no luck!

rellikzephyr · 2011-09-25 15:45:53

damn ok

thanks anyway

after some playing around i seem to have minidlna working, seemingly quite well actually

i am having some trouble with doubles and sometimes no shows with the searching/indexing but im pretty sure that has to do with the Revue's media player and not minidlna

thanks sooo much for this custom firmware, you have saved my nas from technical bricking when i had a original firmware glitch

i look forward to updates

again i cant thank you enough jcard, any way i can donate to the alt-f cause?

RellikZephyr

jcard · 2011-09-25 18:18:50

> Unfortunately TVmobili needs library libstdc++.so.5 and Alt-F uses /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6, so no luck!

If you are technically inclined and still have access to a box with the stock firmware, you can copy the libstdc++.so.5 file and drop it in the /usr/lib/ directory -- I've not tried it, but I think that it will work.
You must have at least one Alt-F package installed in order for the new file survive a reboot.

A similar reasoning must apply to twonky, but I think that I'm not allowed to redistribute files from the vendor's firmware.

> again i cant thank you enough jcard, any way i can donate to the alt-f cause?

There is a link for that in Alt-F homepage.
Donations are intended to buy new hardware, I will buy the beer myself
And the new hardware is intended to keep me away from newspapers headlines

Last edited by jcard (2011-09-25 18:19:31)

rellikzephyr · 2011-09-27 11:17:22

jcard wrote:
There is a link for that in Alt-F homepage.
Donations are intended to buy new hardware, I will buy the beer myself
And the new hardware is intended to keep me away from newspapers headlines

Donate button on site does nothing.... says waiting for paypal then nothing

will keep trying.....unless.....

RellikZephyr

Keon91 · 2011-09-27 14:31:12

Hi jcard,

I just installed Alt-f RC1 snapshot2.

I was wondering, which packages are better to install alt-f or ffp?

can i install lighttpd from outside the source?

like from up here?

http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa … /unstable/

jcard · 2011-09-27 17:06:45

rellikzephyr wrote:
Donate button on site does nothing.... says waiting for paypal then nothing

will keep trying.....unless.....

RellikZephyr

Google changed something, it was working... I edit it and it seems to be working again.

Thanks

jcard · 2011-09-27 17:22:57

Keon91 wrote:
Hi jcard,

I just installed Alt-f RC1 snapshot2.

Remember that "snapshot" does mean "under development". As there has been some changes to the system libraries some packages in the unstable feed might not work.
I'm currently in the process of rebuild and test all packages, in order to release RC1.

I was wondering, which packages are better to install alt-f or ffp?

If there is an Alt-F equivalent package, then use the Alt-F package, as it will be more integrated; if not, use ffp.
But remember, you should disable all non-needed ffp services that might conflict with Alt-F. If you install ffp using Alt-F webgui package manager this is already done for you.

can i install lighttpd from outside the source?

like from up here?

http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa … /unstable/

No, optware packages don't run under Alt-F.
Remember that Alt-F webGUI already uses port 80, so if you are going to use lighttpd you must set it up to use a different port.

Keon91 · 2011-09-27 20:47:59

the snapshot2 is running great for now...

should I flash 0.1B7 or is it ok untill I find problems?

rellikzephyr · 2011-09-28 12:10:07

Enjoy a beer on me!!!

Confirmation number: 56677811LV820822L

Also, i have a question about minidlna.

works fine, unitl i add new folders to NAS. when i add new folders, my media player (Logitech Revue) sees the folder, but nothing in it, ALWAYS

no matter how i try refresh it or whatever, folder shows and shows empty, cannot find new vid i want to watch.

what am i doing wrong?

Thanks

RellikZephyr

jcard · 2011-09-28 19:40:40

Keon91 wrote:
the snapshot2 is running great for now...

should I flash 0.1B7 or is it ok untill I find problems?

Keep snapshot2 and report any problems you find.
You are now a beta² (beta-beta) tester, thanks

Anyway RC1 is not far away.

Keon91 · 2011-09-28 20:26:03

I flashed back to B7 but samba is not as good as on snapshot2.

because you can't assign users to have their own map which is password protected.

So I will be flashing back to snapshot2 and report if I find any problems

jcard · 2011-09-28 20:53:59

rellikzephyr wrote:
Enjoy a beer on me!!!

Confirmation number: 56677811LV820822L

Thanks, I appreciate!
Unfortunately summer is ending here :(

Also, i have a question about minidlna.

works fine, unitl i add new folders to NAS. when i add new folders, my media player (Logitech Revue) sees the folder, but nothing in it, ALWAYS

no matter how i try refresh it or whatever, folder shows and shows empty, cannot find new vid i want to watch.

what am i doing wrong?

Probably nothing, should be minidlna or Alt-F fault.

Can you check if the new share is recognized by minidlna? System->Utilities->View Logs->/var/log/minidlna.log

minidlna has currently (at least) two problems:

-It is very slow to stop: can take a minute or two to *cleanly* terminate after receiving the signal to do it and logging that it is going to stop (I could force it to do a fast *unclean* shutdown, but I'm avoiding to do it)

-It does not has a mechanism to be signaled that the configuration file has changed, and that it must re-read it and scan new directories, so the only way is to stop and restart it. This, allied to the first problem, makes adding new shares a lengthy task.

The next log excerpt shows what happens when it is running and a new share is added:

[2011/09/28 17:58:32] minidlna.c:154: warn: received signal 15, good-bye
[2011/09/28 18:00:36] minidlna.c:900: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.22 [SQLite 3.6.16].

It took 2 minutes! So the best it to add shares when it is stopped.

BUT it seems to not recognize new shares, it seems that you have to force a full rescan.
For now, you have to resort to the command line for this:

minidlna -F # force a full rescan

But it should not be running. If it is running, stop it first. From the command line:

rcminidlna stop
rcmidlna status # repeat (2 mins!) until it is stopped

I will add a button to the webgui to force a rescan. TODO2:

minidlna: add a button to the webgui to force a rescan. Predate minidlna.conf to signal this,
using a commented line to not fool minidlna: #rescan=yes

Does anybody know if there is a minidlna forum or mailing-list to report problems?

Thanks,
Joao

Thanks

RellikZephyr

rellikzephyr · 2011-09-29 10:48:28

where do i run these commands? im running win 8 developer preview

run it via windows cmd line? or on alt-f somewhere, sorry i have very little linux experience

Thanks

RellikZephyr

jcard · 2011-09-29 17:48:10

rellikzephyr wrote:
where do i run these commands? im running win 8 developer preview

run it via windows cmd line? or on alt-f somewhere, sorry i have very little linux experience

Thanks

RellikZephyr

You have to login the box, using either a telnet or a ssh client. I think that MS-Win has a telnet client (perhaps you have to activate it as a windows functionality).

So, telnet or ssh the box, login as user 'root' using the webgui password, and you are on the command line with top privileges; type (first make sure minidlna is stopped)

minidlna -R

and that's it, you can logout ('exit' or CTRL-D)

I have already added a "Force Rescan" button on the minidlna webgui.

Keon91 · 2011-09-30 12:48:31

I just installed snapshot 2 again.

Now user management is messed up.

When i create a new user. A new map in users is created but it isn't password protected and ftp with that user doesn't work.

Reboot doesn't help either.

Is there a way to fix this?

rellikzephyr · 2011-09-30 13:01:41

jcard wrote:
I have already added a "Force Rescan" button on the minidlna webgui.

where/how do i access the webgui for minidlna? ive seen nothing about that, i just thought is didnt have a web ui

BTW i installed telnet and forced rescan. will let you know how it goes

Thanks

RellikZephyr

jcard · 2011-09-30 17:38:03

Keon91 wrote:
I just installed snapshot 2 again.

Now user management is messed up.

When i create a new user. A new map in users is created but it isn't password protected and ftp with that user doesn't work.

Reboot doesn't help either.

Is there a way to fix this?

I can't reproduce that in my development tree, which is very similar to snapshot2.
I created a user "Jose Silva", nick 'josesilv', pass 'coco', and could ftp to his account.

# ftp josesilv@nas
Connected to nas.homenet.
220 (vsFTPd 2.3.4)
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> dir
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30015|).
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw------- 1 1002 100 486374 Sep 30 14:25 zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2

Also, everything in /etc/samba is fine:

# l /etc/samba/
-rw------- 1 root root 40 Aug 25 20:56 credentials.ccard
-rw------- 1 root root 36 Sep 26 16:47 credentials.jcard
-rw------- 1 root root 34 Sep 30 15:23 credentials.josesilv
-rw------- 1 root root 29 Jun 14 20:29 credentials.root
-rw------- 1 root root 45056 Sep 26 16:44 secrets.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1136 Sep 26 16:43 smb.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 419 Sep 30 15:23 smbpasswd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Sep 30 15:23 smbusers

# l /home/Jose\ Silva/
-rw------- 1 josesilv users 486374 Sep 30 15:25 zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2

# cat /etc/samba/smbusers
root = "Administrator"
ccard = "Cristina Cardoso"
jcard = "Joao Cardoso"
josesilv = "Jose Silva"

# cat /etc/samba/credentials.josesilv
username=Jose Silva
password=coco

You have to give more details.
Joao

rellikzephyr · 2011-10-01 07:59:37

ok

force rescan didnt work, sort of... the rescan happened but i have about 250 video folders on nas, the rescan only seems to do the first 80 folders and no further, dunno why

so i tried ushare, it works but only plays vid for 2 mins then it stops and server disappears, if i restart media player, server shows again but then plays for only 2 mins etc etc

i tried fuppes, nothing shows on media player

then i tried mediatomb, if i try start it, just says starting mediatomb: Fail. if i try configure it, says, mediatomb.cgi: eval: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

so please help with any one of these problems i NEED a dlna server it is the ONLY point for my NAS

Thanks

jcard · 2011-10-01 22:49:39

rellikzephyr wrote:
ok

force rescan didnt work, sort of... the rescan happened but i have about 250 video folders on nas, the rescan only seems to do the first 80 folders and no further, dunno why

Where are the logs?
Are the 250 files in a single folder? on a single folder with 250 folders? Organized be Author/Actor/Genre?
How many files the log says it indexed? (after a rescan that info is shown)
Its odd that the first 80 work, not the others -- it might be a single file that produces the problem, and scanning stops there, it might be that the directory structure is too wide or too deep... it might be a minidlna problem, not Alt-F fault...

so i tried ushare, it works but only plays vid for 2 mins then it stops and server disappears, if i restart media player, server shows again but then plays for only 2 mins etc etc

ushare is quite old.

i tried fuppes, nothing shows on media player

fuppes is also "old".
My media player doesn't work with *any* of Alt-F shipped media servers! I had to set it up to use samba. That's the reason there are so many upnp/dlna servers in Alt-F

then i tried mediatomb, if i try start it, just says starting mediatomb: Fail. if i try configure it, says, mediatomb.cgi: eval: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

That doesn't happens for me.

so please help with any one of these problems i NEED a dlna server it is the ONLY point for my NAS

Thanks

You have to provide details, such as logs, and try to diagnose the problem the most. I can't run your system to see what is wrong.

[Added] Do you have setup a swap partition on your disks? What does the Status show in the System section, swap?

Last edited by jcard (2011-10-01 23:07:21)

rellikzephyr · 2011-10-02 01:44:09

jcard wrote:
Where are the logs?
Are the 250 files in a single folder? on a single folder with 250 folders? Organized be Author/Actor/Genre?
How many files the log says it indexed? (after a rescan that info is shown)
Its odd that the first 80 work, not the others -- it might be a single file that produces the problem, and scanning stops there, it might be that the directory structure is too wide or too deep... it might be a minidlna problem, not Alt-F fault...

250 separate folders in root, organized vid/show name, season etc

ushare is quite old.

ok i wont worry about that

fuppes is also "old".

or that

My media player doesn't work with *any* of Alt-F shipped media servers! I had to set it up to use samba. That's the reason there are so many upnp/dlna servers in Alt-F

hmm hope i can get one working, its amazing good when it does

That doesn't happens for me.

does for me, dont know why tho, hoping you would

You have to provide details, such as logs, and try to diagnose the problem the most. I can't run your system to see what is wrong.

[Added] Do you have setup a swap partition on your disks? What does the Status show in the System section, swap?

no i have no swap partition set, unless it sets one automatically

the logs showed an error

scanner.c:499: warn: Unsuccessful getting details for /mnt/sda2/Fullmetal Alchemist - Brotherhood/FMA Brotherhood - 41 The Abyss.avi!

but then nothing after that, no completion message or other error message. it almost seemed as if something was interrupting it, would trying to write something to the disk do that?

ON A GOOD NOTE. i uninstalled minidlna, rebooted the nas and installed again, then tried again. it worked fine same error messages but had a completion message

scanner.c:499: warn: Unsuccessful getting details for /mnt/sda2/Fullmetal Alchemist - Brotherhood/FMA Brotherhood - 41 The Abyss.avi!
scanner.c:797: warn: Scanning /mnt/sda2 finished (3044 files)!

maybe i was too impatient, maybe something was interrupting it but it worked fine this time, just hope i dont have to do that every time i add new folders, but if i do oh well i know how to get it now. so thanks

still curious on the minidlna webgui tho? how do i access it? like i said ive seen no indication of one, thought it didnt have one

RellikZephyr

jcard · 2011-10-02 05:50:05

> no i have no swap partition set, unless it sets one automatically

If you have use Alt-F Disk Wizard, one is created for you on each disk.
Or if your disks has been partitioned by the vendor's firmware, and you have not partitioned them manually, it is also there. If you have partitioned disks manually, you *have* to create one swap partition.
Anyway, what does the Status page, System section, Swap?

> ON A GOOD NOTE. i uninstalled minidlna

That is not going to help. The private directory of packages, in this case /var/lib/minidlna, is not destroyed, so files.db, that is where minidlna stores media information, is still there.

Before removing and reinstalling (this is not windows, you know:) have you tried to stop and restart the service? If you don't have a swap partition and the problem for the first incomplete log was lack of memory, then the second run would start where the first left (this is an hypothesis) and then memory could be enough for what was left of the scan.
It could also happens that the file that generated the warning was marked as problematic and bypassed on the second run.
Who knows? Excluding the lack of memory/swap, it is a problem for the minidlna developer to solve.

> just hope i dont have to do that every time i add new folders

I was able to reproduce your problem when adding to the configuration a directory tree outside the existing share. Adding a directory *inside* the existing share should be no problem, minidlna notices new files and directory appearing.
Please report back if this is not the case.

>still curious on the minidlna webgui tho? how do i access it?

My fault, I was referring to the minidlna administering web page

Keon91 · 2011-10-04 10:29:43

jcard wrote:
Keon91 wrote:
I just installed snapshot 2 again.

Now user management is messed up.

When i create a new user. A new map in users is created but it isn't password protected and ftp with that user doesn't work.

Reboot doesn't help either.

Is there a way to fix this?
I can't reproduce that in my development tree, which is very similar to snapshot2.
I created a user "Jose Silva", nick 'josesilv', pass 'coco', and could ftp to his account.

# ftp josesilv@nas
Connected to nas.homenet.
220 (vsFTPd 2.3.4)
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> dir
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30015|).
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw------- 1 1002 100 486374 Sep 30 14:25 zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2

Also, everything in /etc/samba is fine:

# l /etc/samba/
-rw------- 1 root root 40 Aug 25 20:56 credentials.ccard
-rw------- 1 root root 36 Sep 26 16:47 credentials.jcard
-rw------- 1 root root 34 Sep 30 15:23 credentials.josesilv
-rw------- 1 root root 29 Jun 14 20:29 credentials.root
-rw------- 1 root root 45056 Sep 26 16:44 secrets.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1136 Sep 26 16:43 smb.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 419 Sep 30 15:23 smbpasswd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Sep 30 15:23 smbusers

# l /home/Jose\ Silva/
-rw------- 1 josesilv users 486374 Sep 30 15:25 zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2

# cat /etc/samba/smbusers
root = "Administrator"
ccard = "Cristina Cardoso"
jcard = "Joao Cardoso"
josesilv = "Jose Silva"

# cat /etc/samba/credentials.josesilv
username=Jose Silva
password=coco

You have to give more details.
Joao

It wasn't a Alt-F problem. found out that you use your nickname to login to login to ftp and your name to login to samba.

Also when youre logged in to samba windows saves your user login of some time.

rellikzephyr · 2011-10-07 12:33:25

jcard wrote:
> no i have no swap partition set, unless it sets one automatically

If you have use Alt-F Disk Wizard, one is created for you on each disk.
Or if your disks has been partitioned by the vendor's firmware, and you have not partitioned them manually, it is also there. If you have partitioned disks manually, you *have* to create one swap partition.
Anyway, what does the Status page, System section, Swap?

> ON A GOOD NOTE. i uninstalled minidlna

That is not going to help. The private directory of packages, in this case /var/lib/minidlna, is not destroyed, so files.db, that is where minidlna stores media information, is still there.

Before removing and reinstalling (this is not windows, you know:) have you tried to stop and restart the service? If you don't have a swap partition and the problem for the first incomplete log was lack of memory, then the second run would start where the first left (this is an hypothesis) and then memory could be enough for what was left of the scan.
It could also happens that the file that generated the warning was marked as problematic and bypassed on the second run.
Who knows? Excluding the lack of memory/swap, it is a problem for the minidlna developer to solve.

> just hope i dont have to do that every time i add new folders

I was able to reproduce your problem when adding to the configuration a directory tree outside the existing share. Adding a directory *inside* the existing share should be no problem, minidlna notices new files and directory appearing.
Please report back if this is not the case.

>still curious on the minidlna webgui tho? how do i access it?

My fault, I was referring to the minidlna administering web page

ok drive (only have 1 currently) was formatted via vendor firmware. status page does say i have a swap, (Swap: 7.9/509 MB) the things you learn...

and i have added some new stuff, same problem again, will try force rescan soon

not sure what you mean *outside* directory tree, as the share i do is, /mnt/sda2 (root directory), i just share everything because its only videos on drive

will let you know how this rescan goes, and i will keep an eye on swap

Thanks again

RellikZephyr

EDIT: rescan works fine, first time, every time now. Thank you soo much. all is well again

Last edited by rellikzephyr (2011-10-10 04:38:08)

rellikzephyr · 2012-01-06 14:42:01

Hi

i havent done a full rescan in a while, as minidlna was keeping up with adding new stuff on its own

but lately, a few files havent been auto added, so i decided to do a full rescan

and apparently im having the same problem, rescan stops (or at least does not complete) no error or fail messages, have some warn messages but same as always

[2012/01/06 22:26:32] scanner.c:499: warn: Unsuccessful getting details for /mnt/sda2/Batman The Dark Knight/the_dark_knight_thumb.jpg!
[2012/01/06 22:31:27] scanner.c:499: warn: Unsuccessful getting details for /mnt/sda2/Breaking Bad/Season 4/Breaking.Bad.S04E13.Face.Off.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi!
[2012/01/06 22:35:48] scanner.c:499: warn: Unsuccessful getting details for /mnt/sda2/Chuck/Season 4/Chuck.S04E22.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi!

gets *maybe* 15% through scan before stopping, giving me very little available for viewing

have tried many things, stopping and restarting service, rebooting and retrying, shut down and left off for a while then retrying, uninstalling and reinstalling then retrying

have tried webgui rescan, telnet rescan

im out of ideas, please help

RellikZephyr

Last edited by rellikzephyr (2012-01-06 14:47:22)

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