LS Live Install Problems with TMS 5.1

[tiff]

Hello to all!

I'm having problems with the initial install of TMS on my LS Live HS-DHGL FW 2.10
maybe anybody has seen this before and likes to give me a hint

installed root Access, telnet and addons with no problems.
telnet, ftp, etc. works fine.

downloaded "twonkymedia-linkstation-live-5.1.zip" from <.../downloads/5.1/index.html>
unzipped file and started nassetup.exe

As you can see on the second screen the line after the login looks corrupted to me.
Shouldnt' it read :9000 ?
The flwg lines also don't look healthy.

I tried several network connections even direct attached via crossover cable.
Always the same result.
Want to state not similar or nearly the same - but exactly the same result.

What is going wrong? Any idea?
Did i miss anything?

appreciate any response.
tiff

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[PeeBee]

I haven't heard of anyone getting a working installation of the released version of 5.1 on an LS Live or LS Pro.

I suggest you try v4.4.18.

BTW, v5.1 is still unsupported at the moment, and Linkstation installations are all unsupported.

PB

[tiff]

Thanks for your response so far, PB.

The very first annoucement post of this Forum says "TMS 5.1 released" . . .
I also tried 4.4.18, both LS-Live and LS-Pro versions. And they came up with exactly the same behaviour.
Allthough NAS releases are unsupported, it looks like lots of LS and other NAS owners are happy with their NAS installation.
So i'm probably not to far from a working set.

It necessarily may not be a NAS problem. It may be a local PC problem.
And it must be generic, because not any file is transferred to the LS. Anything related to the file transport mechanism (httpservice + wget).
Are any windows services/libraries used by the installation process?

If it's not a TMS problem - i would be glad to be the first who gets it up running on a LS

I took a look into the nas-installer script and i think it's possible for me to install TMS manually on the LS.
Is there any documentation for a manual installation?
I already tried to interpret the nas-installer script, but probably i missed something.
Which files are really needed on the LS?
What's the content of the startup script /etc/init.d/Twonky? I see a line with #!/bin/sh only. This won't work.
What did i miss?

[PeeBee]

My startup script for Twonky is:

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#!/bin/sh
route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0

cd /mnt/disk1/twonky
/mnt/disk1/twonky/twonkymedia &

and is in the file "twonky" not "Twonky".

The line "exec_sh twonky" (without the quotes) is added to /etc/init.d/rcS in the #fin section.

PB

[PeeBee]

The installer script for 5.1 is the same as for the earlier 5.1 RC version apart from an extra xml views-definition file that gets copied across so that shouldn't be the problem.

The fact that you can't get 4.4.18 to install shows that you have a bigger problem than just the issues around 5.1.

What folder are you putting the Twonky installation files into first before running the installer? I have mine in a sub-folder under /mnt/disk1/share.

You are running the installation from a Windows PC networked to your LS Live, aren't you? It looks like you are from your first screenshot.

The install.nas file sets up the installation to go into the "/mnt/disk1/twonky" folder so you should put your installation files anywhere but in this folder.

PB

[tiff]

Thanks a lot for your hints, PB.

With your explanations i understood the installer script much better.
Following your hints i installed the files manually to the LSL.
It looks like TMS is properly installed.

Til now i started the twonky startup script manually.
logged in as root with /etc/init.d/twonky

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root@HS-DHGL3F5:~# /etc/init.d/twonky
root@HS-DHGL3F5:~# TwonkyMedia Version 5.1
using logfile /tmp/TwonkyMediaServer-log.txt

For image conversion and scaling the TMS utilizes ImageMagick. For details on the license please see /mnt/disk1/twonky/cgi-bin/convert-readme.txt

Nothing else happens, until i try to access the TMS config at http:9010
within a few seconds i get an error
an the spawning (?) process ends as zombie.

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root@HS-DHGL3F5:~# execv: Permission denied

7817 root        368  S   /mnt/disk1/twonky/twonkymedia
7818 root       3992 S   /mnt/disk1/twonky/twonkymediaserver
8965 root                Z   [twonkymediaserv]

This happens on every try.
TwonkyMediaServer-log.txt is empty.

Somehow, on one of my numerous tries i received a http page with

RTSP/2.0 501 NOT IMPLEMENTED

I looked thru the files, but could'nt see why a root process should receive a permission error.
This looks like a TMS / LSL OS related problem.

If you have another hint i'll give it a try . . .

tiff

[tiff]

Hi PB

first of all:
Finally i got it running.

Why?
fixed the fault in my manual installation.
Missed to set the
chmod +x ${BIN}
chmod +x ${BIN}server
chmod +x plugins/*
chmod +x cgi-bin/*

It didn't run instantly when i made the changes, but it worked, when i tried it again today.
I did some other minor things too, but i believe this was the fix.

Thanks a lot for your help.

[PeeBee]

Good news tiff

Can you confirm then that you have v5.1 running on your LS Live by doing a manual install?

If so how is it performing?

PB

[tiff]

Hi PB

Yes, TMS 5.1 is running on my LS Live HS-DHGL FW 2.10
Media Client ist Zyxel DMA-2500

I'm new to mediaplayers and stuff, so i currently only played around a bit and try to get familiar with the functions.
So far i can't tell to much.

Things i already identified that need a closer look

- On the first screen of the DMA-2500 i already make the choice between Video, Photo or Music.
Then i have to select the server and on the first DLNA menu i again have to choose between Video, Photo or Music.
The DMA-2500 only plays the file type i selected in the Mediaplyers Menu. If i select a different filetype in the DLNA menu the DMA finally says "No <filetype> found".
So i have to stick with the primary selection.

- In the menu preview mode for photos it takes about three times longer to display the previews with Twonky than with direct SMB Access
- Photos are displayed much to small
- On the Twonky Webconfig page in the Media Receivers menu i get multiple lines (currently three) with the same MAC and IP Data of my PC.
- The LS Live has lost performance. I've noticed less thruput when up- or dowloading files.

More to follow as i see it.

[turtle]

Hello,

I got exactly the same message when I try to install twonky with the nassetup.exe.

Can you please try to write a short step-by-step manual that i can try to install manually. The Telnet access works and wget is also installed on my Linkstation. So i think that the automatic part in nassetup.exe wount work with Windows 7.

Thanks from germany,
turtle


Hello again,

I got it !!! At least I was trying out the nassetup for the Linkstation Pro - and now it is working !!!
now I must configure the Media Server but the config page have i already seen