Twonky

[dome]

Sorry if this is a repost of some content, but I searched the whole forum and everything I found about "installing twonky" were some comments, that there are already some tutorials here...
However, I didn't find anything usefull but I know some of you guys mananged to install twonky on their WL-700gE. I downloaded the version for the asus wl-hdd, copied it to my internal hdd and thats all I know to do. How do I start that server? Just typing in "twonkymedia" doesn't work for me.
Perhaps anyone knows another good upnp-server, which is freeware?

[dome]

Perhaps I have to specify my problem: I copied all the files, made them executable with chmod but when I type in /path/twonkymedia.sh it always says "/path/twonkymedia.sh: not found". What am I doing wrong?
Everything works fine with ubuntu, using the same command...
But when I say /path/readme.txt, it only says "applet not found", so why doesn't it find the twonkymedia?
I know I'm a linux noob

[dome]

Isn't there anybody out there, who got twonky to work on a wl-700ge?

[saprize]

I was able to get Twonky to work but I'm still having problems with the lame plugin. I am running Kfurge's firmware.
I followed the instructions on another post and did the following to install Twonky:

1. download the Maxtor Shared Storage [plus] version
2. unzipped it to /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Twonkyvision
3. renamed twonkymedia-default.ini to twonkymedia-default.ini.backup
4. start the server using full path /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Twonkyvision/twonkymedia.
If you get an error like "no version information available" it is because of LD_LIBARARY_PATH.
It doesn't start with the updated path. So, I did 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/opt/lib' so it can use the default path.
Then it started just fine.
5. configure Twonky using (192.168.1.1:9000) to point to the media. Assuming that is the ip address of your router

That all works fine after giving it a while to read all of the media. I can see the photos and see the music files but the music files won't play on my client device (which is a DirecTV HR20).
I tried the lame plugin 'Linux MIPS little endian glibc 2.2.3'.
However, I get the following error in the telnet console when attempting to play the mp3 files:

# QUERY_STRING ?source=/shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Clash/Combat Rock/Track1.mp3&from=audio/mpeg&to=audio/L16&cache=/shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Twonkyvision/twonkymedia.db/cache
/shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Twonkyvision/cgi-bin/lame: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

[dome]

Hi,
tanks for your answer. Twonky works for me with no problems But how did you manage to autostart twonky? I always have to enable it by telnet and when I exit telnet, twonky exists, too

[saprize]

I haven't gotten that far yet since my mp3s still don't play on the client device. Have you tried adding '/shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Twonkyvision/twonkymedia &' to rc.local then rebooting? That's my plan if I ever get the lame plugin to work.

[emailpr]

can someone help me with installing twonky on wl-700ge? I wanna be able to stream .mp4 and .avi video files to my dlink dsm-510 wirelessly.. the built-in media server in asus is not able to do it..
I have no knowledge about programing in linux.. so I would really appreciate if someone could detail the steps out for me.

Thanks a bunch..

[mumsoft]

Look here:

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=...ghlight=twonky

and read my message":
Twonkymedia 4.3 installs fine

Maybe I should have posted it as a proper HOW-TO message, but I hate to post things twice, and moreover, the forum has a search facility.

good luck
Marc

[emailpr]

Hello Marc, thank you for your reply.. I had seen that posting of yours before.. but had a few questions..

1> You said and i quote "Just unzip this in e.g. /opt/share/TwonkyMedia,"

where exactly is this folder hierarchy set up? In the PC or in the Asus router??
In my asus router I have the usual directories.. namely.. Download, Music, Videos, USB etc..under the /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1.. Where exactly in this should I unzip it?

2> You said and I quote "give this command:
chmod 700 twonkym* cgi-bin/* plugins/*
and with
./twonkymedia it runs."

Where exactly should give this command? in a text file of some sort or in the rc.local?? I am not sure. sorry, like I said, I am clueless about linux.

3> should I first update it to the kfurge firmware?

Thanks

[mumsoft]

Hello Marc, thank you for your reply.. I had seen that posting of yours before.. but had a few questions..

1> You said and i quote "Just unzip this in e.g. /opt/share/TwonkyMedia,"

where exactly is this folder hierarchy set up? In the PC or in the Asus router??
In my asus router I have the usual directories.. namely.. Download, Music, Videos, USB etc..under the /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1.. Where exactly in this should I unzip it?

2> You said and I quote "give this command:
chmod 700 twonkym* cgi-bin/* plugins/*
and with
./twonkymedia it runs."

Where exactly should give this command? in a text file of some sort or in the rc.local?? I am not sure. sorry, like I said, I am clueless about linux.

3> should I first update it to the kfurge firmware?

Thanks

Ok, my message is not a full How-to. So I left out the part that I assumed that one had installed kfurge's image. Now, 5 years ago I did not know anything about Linux, but I installed Suse 8.0, and that took only 30 minutes. After that I had hundred applications to play with. Now I am not so clueless about Linux anymore, but I am still used to a graphical interface, so peeking around in the router isn't my cup of tea either. But, if you read a lot around here, you learn a lot. That said, you will first take the courage to read through the excellent, but Linux-minded http://home.comcast.net/~kfurge/wl700ge.html
You don't have to follow all the steps though. Just install it, and follow the section after Installing the new firmware image In my opinion you can just use the web interface to flash it.
At least follow steps 1 to 3 after that.

Now you will have an /opt directory in the router. You kan create a /opt/share/TwonkyMedia there. The chmod command has to be given once, in this same directory. The you can run Twonky with ./twonkymedia, but that will only work until you end the telnet or ssh session. Didn't I say you had to telnet/ssh to the router in the first place?
To start Twonky every time you power up the Asus, you have to change the rc.local.
Don't fall in the trap to edit rc.local with notepad!!!! . Do it with nano or joe.

Look around here, search for terms you don't understand, use Google a lot, and be welcome in the amazing world of Linux.

Greets
Marc

[emailpr]

one question.. I've seen links posted for the source of the starter rc.local script like for example http://home.comcast.net/%7Ekfurge/rc.local
if I click on this link.. it opens up a webpage with unix style language script I guess..
so do I copy this and paste it on notepad and name it rc.local?

[mingtsre]

I get a weird thing happening:

I start twonkymedia on the command line and when I stop my shell it dies.

Anyone seen this?

[Gizmo1007]

Hopefully this may be of some use to those of you who use Twonky and have had issues with getting it to autostart on system reboot.

Before this I couldn't get Twonky to autostart i always had to go in and start it.
The following information is based on the latest KC firmware ver 1.0.7.8.
Anyway enough of that on with the code.

I have found version 4.4 of twonky to be problematic, (ie) I couldn't view any divx files however I have found that version 4.2 and v.4.3 work with no issues

You need to create a couple of files.

I am assuming that you have twonkymedia files located in /opt/etc/twonky
adjust the file below as necessary

File 1. /opt/etc/init.d/S82twonky
place code below into this file.

#!/opt/bin/sh

PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DAEMON=/opt/etc/twonky/twonkymedia
NAME=ushare
DESC="Twonky UPnP A/V Media Server Version 4.2"
PIDFILE=/var/run/twonky.pid

start() {
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo "Warning : $PIDFILE still present. Unclean shutdown ?"
kill -s 9 `cat $PIDFILE` 2>/dev/null
rm -f $PIDFILE 2>/dev/null
fi
echo -n "Starting $DESC... "
$DAEMON
echo "done"
}

stop() {
echo -n "Stopping $DESC... "
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
kill -9 `cat $PIDFILE` 2>/dev/null
killall -9 twonkymediaserver
rm -f $PIDFILE 2>/dev/null
fi
echo "done"
}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
stop
sleep 1
start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart)"
exit 1
;;
esac

Chmod 755 /opt/etc/init.d/S82twonky

next we create the file which crontab will run to check if twonky has been started. This will check if the pid has been put in the /var/run location.
if the file exists then it will simply exit.

File 2. /opt/etc/twonky-autostart.sh

#!/opt/bin/bash

# check for running pid and if not present
# start twonky.
# requires you to have S82twonky in init.d
# put in cron as a job and run every 5 minutes

PIDFILE=/var/run/twonky.pid

if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
exit 0;
else
/opt/etc/init.d/S82twonky start
fi

again make sure you chmod 755 twonky-autostart.sh.

Finally

put a check in your crontab to run this every 5 minutes.

like so

*/5 * * * * /opt/etc/twonky-autostart.sh


Giz1007

[mumsoft]

Hi,

Impressive, but, I have only this in my rc.local:

 #Start Twonkymedia, before changing library_path
 /opt/share/TwonkyMedia/twonkymedia &

and I shut down my Asus every day, and it starts up with Twonky (4.4), no problem.
Regarding divx, you probably should remove

MT:avi,divx video/avi

in the clients.db (in directory resources)

Love,
Marc