2008/06/01

CH3WNAS and FireFly

I managed to get FireFly running om my CH3WNAS. It's fairly easy if you're not afraid of the command line :-). I was wrong in my post yesterday: you do NOT need Gentoo in order to run firefly! Gentoo is apparently only needed if you want to build FireFly from the sources.

The info in http://dsmg600.info/howto:firefly contains too much steps for the CH3WNAS.

This is the 'real' way to setup firefly on CH3WNAS:
  • enable telnet in fun_plug: http://www.aroundmyroom.com/2008/01/03/ch3wnas-enabling-telnet/
  • download the latest build of FireFly for the CH3WNAS: http://willie-wortel.nl/ch3wnas/ch3wnas-ff-1696.tgz. Unzip the build onto the NAS. (/mnt/HD_a2)
  • I renamed the main directory from /mnt/HD_a2/firefly-1696 to /mnt/HD_a2/firefly. This is consequent with the config.
  • edit the following line in /mnt/HD_a2/firefly/mtdaapd.conf file (e.g. with ftp):
    mp3_dir = /mnt/HD_a2/media
    --> replace media with the root-directory to your mp3s.
    --> check out the other options like default admin password if you wish.
  • add the following lines to your fun_plug:
    #kill legacy upnp (if you don't use the upnp ;-)
    kill -9 `pidof upnp`

    #start firefly
    rm -f /mnt/HD_a2/firefly/var/cache/mt-daapd/*
    /mnt/HD_a2/firefly/sbin/mt-daapd -c /mnt/HD_a2/firefly/mt-daapd.conf
    As you can see, I completely remove the DB before starting FireFly up. This is because while I was testing, the DB went corrupt after a reboot. The indexing at startup is very fast (4000 mp3s in 64 seconds) so this isn't really a problem, I think. Maybe there are more elegant ways to prevent corruption of the DB?
I tested it with Rhythmbox under Ubuntu 8.04 & it works like a charm :-). Make sure the "Multicast DNS service discovery" service (= mDNS) is running in Ubuntu (System/Administration/services) and that the "daap plugin" is checked in rhythmbox (edit/plugins). I'm seriously considering buying the Roku (Pinnacle) Soundbridge now...

Other tips:
  • check out the FireFly admin pages in your browser: go to port 3689 of your CH3WNAS:
    e.g. http://192.168.1.30:3689/ user: admin; password: mt-daapd (default)
  • you can follow the logs in /var/log/mt-daapd.log (maybe not the best location :-/):
    tail -f /var/log/mt-daapd.log
thanks to http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?p=20282&sid=5b52a2902da3f5b3462bed5e1bc826fd and http://willie-wortel.nl/ch3wnas/!

(updated: 12/6/2008: corrected willie-wortel links)

4 comments:

willie wortel said...

Michael,

Kun je williewortel.uni.cc aanpassen naar
www.willie-wortel.nl?

willie-wortel.nl is nu nog omgeleid naar williewortel.uni.cc maar het is mogelijk dat dit in de toekomst verandert. willie-wortel.nl blijft altijd.

De download bevat nu nog alleen rsp, maa r ik ben in overleg met de maker van firefly bezig een werkende versie te maken die alle drie de plugins (daap,rsp en ssc-script) ondersteunt.

Verder las ik dat je problemen hebt met de database. Ik kan eventueel de database eruit kieperen bij het booten.

Grtz,

Willie Wortel

Michaël said...

Is aangepast. Ik heb 1x de sqlite db corrupt gehad, maar mss was dat toevallig. Het indexeren is zo snel dat het verwijderen van de db bij opstart niet echt een probleem is.

Ik heb gemerkt dat MediaTomb een test doet of hij de db kan lezen; anders verwijdert 'm de db & begint opnieuw.

& bedankt voor de moeite!

Michaël

Unknown said...

Michael,

Ik probeerde de link naar Willie Wortels Firefly te downloaden. De site bestaat echter niet meer.
Zou je de file op je site kunnen zetten of kan je hem naar me toe mailen als je hem nog hebt.

Mijn email is.
arthurbvb@gmail.com

Alvast bedankt

Unknown said...

I get an error whe I try to start firefly:

/mnt/HD_a2/firefly/sbin/mt-daapd: can't load library 'libsqlite3.so.0'

How I can fix this?

Thanks