This is a major update on the classic DLNA/UPnP media server. The upstream code has been significantly improved, which means a simpler cross-compile for me, and better performance for everyone.
This version is fully SDK 2.0 compatible, but unfortunately still doesn’t have a web interface. It preserves the configuration files, but it will recreate the media index.
Add the gettext package. It is needed by minidlna but is not in the default machine created in #1
sudo apt-get install gettext
On the final ./configure for minidlna add "--enable-tivo"
If like me you have a bunch of .mkv videos, you will need to transcode them to mpeg since unlike pyTivo the MiniDLNA TiVo interface will not transcode for you. I used the following based on what pyTivo does:
convertfile()
{
avconv -i "$1.mkv" -f vob -b:v 16384k -bufsize 4096k -copyts -maxrate 30000k -b:a 448k -ar 48000 -codec:a ac3 "$1.mpg"
}
convertfile
@bhiga maybe you can just print out an S3 image of the clock area, and stick it on to fool her :)[hr] http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm314/ilovehdtv/Other/TiVo/s3_oled.jpg
(well, you’d need to print a few different ones, to cater for the times that she’ll be likely to see… “morning”, “evening”, “weekend”, & “headache, not now”
My wife’s way too smart for that, though I suppose if I had enough time I could rig something to scrape the status and display it. But time is something I am severely lacking these days.
I’ve just started looking for media server options for my Drobo-FS and thought MediaTomb was promising, but it apparently lacks the ability to stream to the Tivo. I was excited to see that minidlna can be set up to do so, but am I right that this feature isn’t bundled into the current release at http://www.droboports.com/app-repository/minidlna-1-1-0? Thanks in advance.
Thanks so much, Ricardo. I tried for days to compile my own port. Linux is not my thing. I have downloaded your TGZ for the Drobo-FS and placed it in my DroboApps folder at the root. I rebooted and nothing happened. The 1.0.25 version was still in the MiniDLNA folder and the TGZ was still on the root. So I removed the 1.0.25 version (after backing up the configs) and rebooted again. The TGZ did not install. Any ideas?
I don’t know how I would get to that log. I did install DropBear on it a few years ago but when I look at the logs for it, it appears it isn’t working correctly. So I downloaded it again. Just like the MiniDLNA, it won’t install upon reboot.
If not even dropbear will install, then you have a more fundamental problem. I suggest you open a ticket with Drobo support to see why you are unable to install even official apps, such as dropbear.
The problem was that a Dashboard update disabled DroboApps even though I could still browse to the folder. I re-enabled and poof. Thanks so much for the help Ricardo and for building MiniDLNA for us. It all works it seems.
I would like to be able to use my Drobo from my Tivo. I am not proficient with the low-level programming stuff, so would appreciate a simplified “duh-stupid” version. I’m not locked into a single way. pyTivo sounded promising until the instructions (I think step 2) went way over my head. I would use MiniDLNA, or whatever is out there. Does someone have something I can just drop on the Drobo?
I have the DroboFS.
