Accessing 2nd Disk in Twonky (new Firmware installed)

Accessing 2nd Disk in Twonky (new Firmware installed)

csd500 1257613607|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Just upgraded to the new firmware, bringing Twonky to version 5.1. Problem is, I can no longer access the media folders on the second drive in the Twonky configuration tool (I've got a 4-tb MBWE using JBOD). Before I could access the files by adding the following path in the 'Current Location' section of Twonky

./../../ExtendVolume/Public2/Shared Videos

When I try this in version 5.1 and save, the path automatically removes the './../../' and so becomes:

/ExtendVolume/Public2/Shared Videos

which doesn't pick up any of the files. Is there anything I can do to get around this? Perhaps changing the Twonky config file to point to in front of the 2 drive share names (DataVolume and ExtendVolume), if so where is this file stored and how do I go about changing it through windows?

Many thanks,

Chris

Re: Accessing 2nd Disk in Twonky (new Firmware installed)

csd500 1257619554|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Managed to fix it in the end. If anyone else needs to change this, and like me is completely new to linux commands, I managed it by doing the following:

1) Enable SSH access through the web interface.

2) Install putty and connect to the MyBook, logging in with root:welc0me

3) Copy the twonky folder to the Download folder

cp -r /twonky /shares/Download/twonkytemp

4) In windows explorer, navigate to the download folder, and edit the twonkymedia-server-default.ini file in wordpad. Change the following:

contentbase=/DataVolume/Public

to

contentbase=/

5) Back in putty, remove the original ini file from the twonky directory

rm /twonky/twonkymedia-server-default.ini

6) Copy the edited ini file over to the original directory

cp /shares/Download/twonkytemp/twonkymedia-server-default.ini /twonky

7) Start up twonky

/twonky/twonkymedia.sh start

8) Go to the twonky configuration website, and reset to defaults. Now when it reloads, go to the sharing tab, and under content locations you will now be able to select all folders, including those on the ExtendVolume disk.

Re: Accessing 2nd Disk in Twonky (new Firmware installed)

TobiMac 1257802848|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I haven't tried it in Twonky 5.1 yet, but wouldn't it be easier to just create symlinks in your Public Folder?

Try ln -s /the/path/to/your/desired/folder/ /DataVolume/Public/<name_of_symlink>

Thus Twonky doesn't have Access to all your shares.

last edited on 1257803040|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover by TobiMac + show more

Re: Accessing 2nd Disk in Twonky (new Firmware installed)

iceet 1258246193|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thank you so very much for this tidbit. I own the My Book white light 1 tb single disk edition. In addition I have another WD My Book 1 tb essential edition connected to it via usb. I was wondering how to get Twonky to recognize it and this command did the trick.

Re: Accessing 2nd Disk in Twonky (new Firmware installed)

Pygmalion 1257805059|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Actually, I had a similar issue, but I fixed it by simply removing the leading "./" portion of the directory name. So, instead of the

./../../ExtendVolume/Public2/Shared Videos

that you had, you could just try

../../ExtendVolume/Public2/Shared Videos

This worked in my case.

Re: Accessing 2nd Disk in Twonky (new Firmware installed)

csd500 1257894787|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Well that's certainly an easier way of doing it! Must remember that for the next firmware upgrade.