How-to: Compile mt-daapd for your Roku/Pinnacle soundbridge

[mumsoft]

Sollie,

Of course, there are always more suggestions. And I will give some. But I did not see any useful info about why your version is not functioning in your opinion. No log, no ldd output, no mentioning of your command to start mt-daapd, no mentioning of your client, nothing at all. Still you are asking for help...?

Well, here is the obvious part:
Did you disable "Enable Media Server?" in the web interface. You should
Did you kill mt-daapd in rc.local? You should.
Here is waht I have in the beginning of my rc.local:
# Sleep for a little bit to not interfere with normal system startup
# before we kill a bunch of Asus processes.
sleep 5

# Stop originele Asus mt-daapd
killall -q mt-daapd &

That's it.
Maybe that does not help, but please be much more informative if that's the case.

Marc

[sollie]

I pm-ed you. Just cant explain myself in englisch.

Sollie.

[sollie]

2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Firefly Version svn-1586: Starting with debuglevel 9
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Attempting to load plugin /opt/share/mt-daapd/plugins/out-daap.so
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Loaded plugin /opt/share/mt-daapd/plugins/out-daap.so (daap/svn-1586)
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): New transcode codec list:
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Attempting to load plugin /opt/share/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Loaded plugin /opt/share/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so (ssc-script/svn-1586)
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): New transcode codec list: ogg,flac,alac
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Attempting to load plugin /opt/share/mt-daapd/plugins/rsp.so
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Loaded plugin /opt/share/mt-daapd/plugins/rsp.so (rsp/svn-1586)
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): New transcode codec list: ogg,flac,alac
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1586
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Plugin loaded: ssc-script/svn-1586
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1586
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Starting rendezvous daemon
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Starting signal handler
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Pid: 4832
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): select(10, 0.000976)
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Opening database
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): select(10, 0.165039)
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): db_sqlite3_open: Misc SQL Error: unable to open database file (/opt/var/mt-daapd/songs3.db)
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Results: 1
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Error opening db: Misc SQL Error: unable to open database file
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Processing rendezvous message
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Stopping mDNS
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Exiting
2007-05-22 22:43:02 (00000400): Finished with status 0, result 0

This is my logfile. Something is going wrong with the database.

I found the solution:

I had to use this command, to have write permission:
chown guest /opt/var/mt-daapd



Sollie.

[mumsoft]

This is my logfile. Something is going wrong with the database.

I found the solution:

I had to use this command, to have write permission:
chown guest /opt/var/mt-daapd



Sollie.

Wow........ ....... congratulations!!! And I see you meanwhile have compiled the latest firefly... So you can..
I did not made a guest account. I run firefly as root, but I might try to run it as guest.

But pfff, great work.
Marc

[mumsoft]

Sollie,

As you promised to help with ogg-streaming, please have a look at this post:

http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org...f27cc3a5#12343

Then, please try to do this yourself. It is not so difficult.
You must use --prefix=/opt as an extra.
When I try to configure vorbis-tools it fails. Now I hope this is due to my dumb setup, and that it will run smoothly with your setup.

Please have a try and report what you get or don't get.
Good luck,

Marc

[sollie]

I see you fixed the problem.

Or is there anything i ahe to test.

Sollie.

[DaNawq]

Nice, also works under OpenWRT Build 7717 :-)

The only thing I don't know yet is how to make a .ipk from the compiled src.

[iczfirz]

Hi bros,

Anyone tell me why we need to compile the mt-daapd again?
Is that more features add?

~May

[mumsoft]

Hi bros,

Anyone tell me why we need to compile the mt-daapd again?
Is that more features add?

~May

a) A Roku soundbridge uses the RSP protocol, that the old Mt-daapd 2.4 does not provide.
b) There is no package for Firefly and the Asus WL-700gE
c) Transcoding ogg-files fails
d) Transcoding files with accented characters in folder or file name fails

Compiling mt-daapd solves a) to c).
An upcoming version of mt-daapd should also solve d).

Greetz,
Marc

[iczfirz]

wow... cool..
my xbmc is unable to connect to the 700ge native mt-daapd.
Do you think your compilation will fix this as well?

~May

[mumsoft]

wow... cool..
my xbmc is unable to connect to the 700ge native mt-daapd.
Do you think your compilation will fix this as well?

~May

I really don't know. The native mt-daapd is older than mt-daapd 2.4 that you can install with ipkg, so just try that one first.
As I have described how to compile the newer mt-daapd, it must be not very time consuming to try that one.

And maybe someone else knows...

Greetz,
Marc

[Ping]

I see in the ipkg repository here http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g/ that there are 2 versions of the mt-daapd, one is pretty recent. Anybody knows the differences? Or did anybody in this thread, who managed to compile, make an ipkg already?

It's still a bit unclear to me if this mt-daapd (one of the two in the rep) supports correctly the Pinnacle Soundbridge or not. I'm ready to compile as well if needed but if a package is there, much better...

Thanks

Ping

UPDATE: after some more googling, I seem to understand that even the 0.2.4-2 does not support the Pinnacle Soundbridge (but probably works with the Roku?). Anybody here can confirm?

[mumsoft]

UPDATE: after some more googling, I seem to understand that even the 0.2.4-2 does not support the Pinnacle Soundbridge (but probably works with the Roku?). Anybody here can confirm?

Roku and Pinnacle are just two brands for the same hardware, as I understand it. Maybe the Roku is US-based, and Pinnacle not?
Anyway, version 2.4 of Mt-daapd is way to old to understand the Roku protocol, whatever number you add to it.

If I knew how to make a package, I would have done that.

Marc

[eitsch]

hi there

when i want to start i get the following error in my log file:

2007-07-19 09:01:38 (00000400): Firefly Version svn-1586: Starting with debuglevel 2
2007-07-19 09:01:38 (00000400): Plugin loaded: rsp/svn-1586
2007-07-19 09:01:38 (00000400): Plugin loaded: ssc-script/svn-1586
2007-07-19 09:01:38 (00000400): Plugin loaded: daap/svn-1586
2007-07-19 09:01:38 (00000400): Starting rendezvous daemon
2007-07-19 09:01:38 (00000400): Starting signal handler
2007-07-19 09:01:38 (00000400): Error opening db: No backend database support for type: sqlite

someone knows how to fix it?

regards

[mumsoft]

Could you also give your configfile (/opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf).

Marc