User manual TERRATEC NOXON HOWTO

[. . . ] A copy of the license is available at http://www. gnu. org/copyleft/fdl. html. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Apple and Mac OS are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, California, US. 1. 3 Disclaimer No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted. Use the concepts, examples and information at your own risk. [. . . ] The configuration can be written with TextEdit or, as we prefer, the Terminal. You can find it under "Applications/Utilties/Terminal" If you enter the commands below as written (just change the values printed in italics to your individual values), you will be able to start the server within 2 minutes. cd /Applications/musicserver cat > twonkyvision-mediaserver. ini usecwd=0 contentdir=/Users/starxed/Music/iTunes/ radio=1 ignoredir=AppleDouble nicrestart=1 ip= dev=eth1 scantime=15 dc:title, dc:creator, upnp:artist, upnp:genre, upnp:album, dc:date, upnp: originalTrackNumber descriptions=0 Remarks : You must not copy the bracket (. . . ), it just means that there is no line-break. Remember that you have to point to you'r own audio folder in the contentdir= statement. The ip= statement can be left blank, if you use a network without DHCP Server you should enter your current IP here. If you don't know you'r IP, you can find it under "Networking" in your control panel or by simply entering ifconfig -a in the terminal. The dev= statement usually is eth0 for the wired ethernet and eth1 for wireless lan. If you are not sure if this also applies on your Mac, ifconfig -a will tell you everything you need to know here. After pressing CTRL-D the file will be saved, you are finished!If you don't want to type down the configuration file, you can start the musicserver without parameters, after terminating with CTRL-C it will leave a default configuration file that can be customized afterwards. cd /Applications/musicserver . /musicserver (CTRL-C) pico twonkyvision-mediaserver. ini You can start your musicserver now by typing . /musicserver (ENTER) at the console. Starxed-pbook:~/Applications/musicserver/ starxed\$ . /musicserver TwonkyVision Music Server Version 2. 4 When everything went ok, your mac will appear in the server list of the noxon player within up to 15 secounds. If this does not occour, please proceed to the troubleshooting guide. 5 2. 2. 4 Local "Firewall" To avoid problems with uPNP Audio Streaming technology, you have to shut down the local firewall or provide exception rules (aka. Trusted Hosts) for the Noxon. 2. 3 2. 3. 1 Installation under Linux Here and now As Twonkyvision is obtailable only as a pre-compiled binary, the Linux version is limited to x86-based platforms, like the Intel Pentium, AMD K, AMD Athlon, Via C3, various cyrix CPU's or XBox consoles which are running Linux. The Server has been tested with Kernel 2. 4. 26 on Debian/Xebian and various other distributions. 2. 3. 2 Installation The installation is almost equal to the Mac OS X Installation, which is basically a BSD/NextStep Unix with some Mac-Beauty on the top. In this example we copied the linux folder of the gzip into /var/musicserver and configured it as written below : cd /var/musicserver cat > twonkyvision-mediaserver. ini usecwd=0 contentdir=/home/starxed/iTunes nicrestart=1 ip= dev=eth0 scantime=15 dc:title, dc:creator, upnp:artist, upnp:genre, upnp:album, dc:date, upnp kein Umbruch>>originalTrackNumber descriptions=0 Please keep in mind that you have to change the values printed in italics to the values that apply on your system. If you need information about you'r network connectivity, enter ifconfig -a at the console. After saving the file with CTRL-D you can launch the Musicserver with . /musicserver, the startup can also be included into a init. d shellscript. 2. 3. 3 Firewall Configuration uPNP does not play well with Firewall enviroments, so we can only recommend to disable local packet filtering for the source-ip of the noxon client. 2. 4 Installation under Windows :-) The Server can also be run under Windows. The configuration is equal to the Linux version. 6 3 3. 1 Reference The Noxon musicserver Menu Shortly after the connection between Server and Noxon has been established, you will see the following menu: Albums All Tracks Artists Folders Genres Shows all Albums Show just all tracks (large!) Show all Titles of one specific Artists Browse through you'r own folder Structure Filters by Genres 3. 2 Links The following links might be of particular interest for Noxon users : Terratec Electronic GmbH http://www. terratec. de Manufacturer of the Musicserver Twonkyvision Musicserver http://www. twonkyvision. com free Musicserver f¨r Linux, for Mac OS and Windows u XBox-Linux http://www. xbox-linux. org How to install Linux on your XBox 4 4. 1 Troubleshooting Notice about the Troubleshooting section The following hints apply on Linux, Mac OS X and even Windows. 4. 2 Networking in Brief Problems during the connection between Server and noxon are reported to us frequently. [. . . ] In this case it is recommended not to use DHCP for the server and the Noxon (so the IP Address remains static) to make the firewall configuration a bit easier. For sure this leaves a number of security issues open, but we wont discuss that matter in this place. So this summarizes in the following checklist : · Does the Noxon respont to PINGs ?· Is the musicserver up and running ? [. . . ]