Really appreciate your help phibertron.
Your Welcome
I did previously try to contact twonky support through their website but whenever I click the Support link "Ask us a question" I get "To post or comment please sign in" and then straight away "Error loading login options" this happens with both my browsers, IE11 and chrome. Also if I click "View known issues" on their website I get a 404.
That used to go to the other site, but since its not more, your see the errors
why they haven't fixed that yet it disturbing
As to why I'm interested in what these errors mean I see them in respect of my Samsung Smart TV. I'm trying to ascertain which side is at fault. Sometimes when I try to stream from WDMC to TV I can navigate through my WDMC folders but when I click on a programme the TV just hangs with a blank screen and the spinning circle timer icon. After about 30-60 seconds the TV times out this operation and reports that the WDMC connection has gone (can't remember exact message). If I try several more times it will eventually work but its a pain having to go through this torture for ten minutes before I can watch something.
I have a dim memory of reading about something like this in the past
but a lot of the info that could have been looked at is now no more since they took down the other site
just a guess, but what sounds like whats happening is this:
Either,
the TV is cacheing the list, and isn't really talking the server yet,
and when you attempt to play an item the waiting icon appears
because the NAS or Twonky is actually in a sleep state
but the TV doesn't know that, so its stuck waiting for a response
which could time out until the service is full woken
which is maybe why multiple attempts to play it make it work
Or,
Still related to "possible" caching on the TV
If your NAS is using DHCP, maybe the change of its IP when turned on or awoken
is different, but the TV doesn't know that yet
which is maybe why multiple attempts to play an item make it work
But the above errors were not coincident with me streaming - its probable that these errors are reported by twonky when the tv is switched into standby mode, but I need to get more evidence for this to be certain.
I think they "might" be related, but then again...
I think I did see an errorlevel setting in twonky config - any idea what the procedure is for me setting that on WDMC? Maybe if I got more detailed reporting out of twonky I could figure out whats going on.
Alternatively do you know if its possible to see any error logs on the samsung TV (UE37ES6300U)?
I used to have a great how to on the old site
this post eludes to the bitfield being used to tune the logging level
http://twonkyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4473
In 7.x by default, when you go the Twonky Web Inteface, yourNASIP:9000/#advanced
under advanced there is a section for logging
when one enables it, it is setting this variable in the twonkyserver.ini to 4095
which in binary is 111111111111
meaning that each 1 column is turning on specific event log entries
I used to have an exact list, but I think 8191 (1111111111111) is also a valid choice
when you click on the enable logging its actually using an rpc call to make the change
This would tell you what the value is in a browser window
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http://x.x.x.x:9000/rpc/get_option?v
This would set the value to what you want
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http://x.x.x.x:9000/rpc/set_option?v=4095