problem: firefly on NSLU2 + Freecom MusicPal

[Anonymous]

I have a linksys NSLU2 running Firmware Version: V2.3R63-uNSLUng-6.8-beta. (+ SSH installed)
I followed instructions on http://wiki.fireflymediaserver.org/NSLU2_Installation
to install a stable release of Firefly.

I get this:
# ps -ef | grep mt-daapd
466 guest 1936 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
467 guest 6452 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
474 guest 6452 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
475 guest 6452 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
476 guest 6452 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
602 ttyp0 root 2668 S grep mt-daapd
#

the webpage http://NAS:3689/status.html
gives:

Thread__Session__Host_____________Action
41______ 0______192.168.0.101_____Serving admin pages

Service____________Status__Control
Rendezvous________Running_Stop MDNS Server
DAAP Server_______Running_Stop DAAP Server
Background scanner_Idle____Start Scan

Uptime 12 minutes, 48 seconds
Songs 0
Songs Served 0
DB Version 1

My Freecom MusicPal is connected by network cable, and can play the windows media player mp3’s. But not the NSLU2 mp3’s.

Cidero – UPnP mediacontroller does not show the NSLU2 Music server in the server list, it only shows my windows media player server.

I did do the “chmod o+r -R /share/hdd/data/public/mp3” command on the NSLU2.

The only strange thing that I can find up till now is that the
“ps -ef | grep mt-daapd” command
does not give this:

497 guest 4004 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd
498 guest 11896 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd
507 guest 11896 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd
508 guest 11896 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd
2564 ttyp0 root 2668 S grep mt-daapd

but instead it gives the list you can find in the beginning of my posting.

Do you have any idea what is wrong here?
Can you give advice to me in order to make my Freecom MusicPal play mp3’s of my NSLU2.

PS: Cidero look at http://www.cidero.com/

Thanks for reading !

Johan

[Anonymous]

I installed iTunes, and there I can find my “NSLU2 music” server, but can’t see any mp3 file. Even after giving read permissions for all mp3 files to everyone.

And there is maybe something wrong with my UPnP I think. Below I can read: upnpd &>/dev/null

# ps
PID TTY Uid Size State Command
1 root 1212 S /bin/init
2 root 0 S [keventd]
3 root 0 S [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 root 0 S [kswapd]
5 root 0 S [bdflush]
6 root 0 S [kupdated]
7 root 0 S [mtdblockd]
8 root 0 S [khubd]
9 root 0 S [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
10 root 0 S [usb-storage-0]
11 root 0 S [scsi_eh_1]
18 root 0 S [sd-mc-thread]
28 root 0 S [kjournald]
50 root 0 D [ixp425_csr]
51 root 0 S [ixp425 ixp0]
54 ttyS0 root 1916 S /bin/sh
55 root 1936 S /sbin/syslogd -n
56 root 1924 S /sbin/klogd -n
149 root 0 S [kjournald]
211 root 10944 S upnpd &>/dev/null
221 root 10944 S upnpd &>/dev/null
222 root 10944 S upnpd &>/dev/null
226 root 10944 S upnpd &>/dev/null
227 root 10944 S upnpd &>/dev/null
321 root 2156 S /usr/sbin/thttpd -C /etc/thttpd.conf
345 root 6148 S /usr/sbin/smbd -D
347 root 6148 S /usr/sbin/smbd -D
348 root 4824 S /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
355 root 1272 S /bin/inetd
375 root 1952 S /usr/sbin/QuickSet
379 root 1904 S /usr/sbin/USB_Detect
380 root 1900 S /usr/sbin/USB_Detect
387 root 1884 S /usr/sbin/onetouch_detect
388 root 1884 S /usr/sbin/onetouch_detect
404 root 1216 S /usr/sbin/crond
410 root 1928 S /usr/sbin/CheckResetButton
412 root 1196 S /usr/sbin/CheckPowerButton
414 root 1196 S /usr/sbin/do_umount
458 root 3244 S /opt/sbin/sshd
1807 root 6008 S sshd: root@notty
1812 root 1912 S sh -c /opt/libexec/sftp-server
1813 root 3104 S /opt/libexec/sftp-server
1852 root 5936 S sshd: root@ttyp0
1860 ttyp0 root 1920 S -sh
1967 root 10944 S upnpd &>/dev/null
1983 ttyp0 guest 1932 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
1984 ttyp0 guest 6440 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
1985 ttyp0 guest 6440 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
1986 ttyp0 guest 6440 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
1987 ttyp0 guest 6440 S /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-
1996 ttyp0 root 1984 R ps
#

Do you have any idea what is wrong here?
Can you give advice to me in order to make my Freecom MusicPal play mp3’s of my NSLU2.

Thanks for reading !

Johan

[stretch]

If you’ve installed the stable version i.e. 0.2.4.1-1 then it’s daap only I’m afraid.
UPnP clients will not see the server.
Nightlies versions use daap & rsp but UPnP is still not fully implemented

As for the the songs not appearing in iTunes. Which port is your hard drive connected to?
If it’s connected to USB port 2 on the NSLU2 then you have to change the path to /share/flash/data/public/mp3

[Anonymous]

Thanks Stretch, I was using port 1 with usb harddisc.

So I use the wrong software, firefly is not what I need for the Freecom musicpal.

Now a question about Twonky…
If I understand it….. there is no step by step instruction available for any Unslung version + a currently downloadable twonkymedia package.
I found this on:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Applications/TwonkyVision

The older twonkymedia step by step instruction
http://howtotwonky.pbwiki.com/
is using the twonkymedia 3.1 , I can find this old version anywhere.

Is there any up-to-date step by step instruction available to turn my NSLU2 into a media server for my UPnP client “freecom musicpal” ?

[stretch]

@johan_musicpal wrote:

Is there any up-to-date step by step instruction available to turn my NSLU2 into a media server for my UPnP client “freecom musicpal” ?

Yes. It’s right here

@johan_musicpal wrote:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Applications/TwonkyVision

The last line of the section titled *getting it* is a link to a zip file.
I had a quick look at it’s contents. There is a readme file that tells you how to install.

Ron has started to add UPnP to Firefly but it doesn’t do much yet.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Stretch for pointing to the right point in the website.
I followed the step by step info and it worked.
In the last day’s I learned several new things like ipkg installations and SSH , PuTTY and WinSCP.

Once again thank you for you help.

Happy New Year !!!

Now I can start to enjoy my freecom musicpal for 100%

Regards,
Johan

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