that it and the many other devices out there come pre-installed with Twonky Server
which is great, except when the device manufacturer doesnt heep their versions up to date
with the current versions available from Twonky directly
In addition to this, the versions that come pre-installed are not upgragable by the user
unless that user has there own key, as the pre-intalled versions are usually keyless versions
But, if you are willing to purchase your own key, then the upgrade path is a lot easier
With one huge exception when it comes to the HP Mediasmart server
It being a windows home server, has all these extended capabilities
One of them is HP Media Streamer for Music, Photo, and Video
This feature is actually a frontend to the pre-installed Twonky Server
The most recent version of Twonky Server from HP is version 5.1.1
Anything beyond that is not guarenteed to work with the HP Media Streamer frontend
So say you instlaled the newest version of Twonky Server, the HP Media Streamer would no longer work
Note that the Twonky server itself is fine, and will run and act as normal for what ever version you installed
So basically your stuck with either not upgrading, and not getting fixes or new features
or you upgrade and lose the HP Media streamer abilities
Based on some known configuration abilities of Twonky Server,
It is possible to run more than one instance, which might be able to solve the problem for the most part
I did a lot fo testing in that regard and did come up with a working solution to deal with the HP MediaSmart Media Streamer issue
Follow along with me as I show you how to put the HP version into stealth mode,
and then do a hand install of the current version of Twonky for use on your local network
running as a second instance on port 9001
Note: You are going to need to have access to the desktop of the server
which you can get through the use of the windows remote desktop client
wrote: 1.
Set the HP version to not broadcast itself via UPNP on the network
By editing the registry with regedit to add the -nossdp switch to the service
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TwonkyMedia]
C:\TwonkyMedia\twonkymedia.exe -serviceversion 0 -nossdp
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WARNING!!!
Do not run the twony setup.exe on the homeserver
As it will alter the registry and files need to keep the current HP Twonky 5.1.1 working
You were warned, though it is reverable, with a lot of work
What I did was run the twonky setup locally on my pc or in a vm if you have to work with
Once youve done that, make a copy of the following folder C:\Program Files\TwonkyMedia
and copy it to the HP MediaSmart server
so that C:\Program Files\TwonkyMedia exists there also
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Open a command prompt
and change to the twonky directory, CD C:\Program Files\TwonkyMedia
and the type this command, twonkymediaserverwatchdog.exe -install 1
Warning!!!
If you forget the -install 1 part or just used -install without the 1
its game over, it would overwrite things
Hopefully that wasnt too hard =)wrote: 4.
So now the second instance is installed and running
completely independent of the HP Version
You are going to need to go configure it
with your key, media shares, and any other settings you want
To access this instance, it is now running on http: //yourserver:9001
Here are a few things to make note of:
- You now have to servers to manage, which could be a good thing
The web streaming and local streaming are now two seperate twonky services
- The HP Version of Twonky 5.1.1 is not showing on your network,
which you do not need to do in any way, just dont add the -nossdp switch
I do it so that I wont have to see it,
but it is still web accessable from http: //yourserver:9000
There is one other way to make it stealthy,
and that is to set its ip=127.0.0.1 in the ini
but you could then not get to http: //yourserver:9000 if you did this
unless you were at localhost ( on the desktop )
- The Hp Version is not going to benefit from the other instance
it is just being left there to allow for the HP Media Streamer to still work
But you are gaining the advatanges of the newer twonky on your local network
- Running two instances uses more memory and more cpu on server startup
but as long as your not streaming from the HP Media Streamer
it will just sit there, and you wouldnt even know its there
- If you want to learn a little more about multiple instances, go here
http://twonkyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9408
- If you want to learn a little more about creating custom navtrees go here
http://twonkyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9353