Update twonkyserver

handyhand · July 30, 2011, 5:01am

Thank you for everyone who posted the tutorials on how to upgrade the Twonky Server software for the My Book Live drives. I too was very frusterated that My Book Live would not stream video to my Samsung Tv via DLNA. Yes all that is needed is a Twonky software upgrade, and I am happily streaming video now. Please note you will need to puchase a new Twonky Server software license, the trial is 30 days but after that you will need to pay $19.95. I used the free Putty ssh software program using Windows 7 to upgrade my drive, and thought I should share my steps here, its very straightforward, and I updated the links to the newest Twonky software version 6.0.34 as of 07/29/11.

All credit goes out to Dav M and Gordon who initially started the tutorials and most of the steps from mine are cut and pasted from Dav M’s. Thanks man!

Before proceeding make sure your WD My Book Live firmware is updated to the latest version.

In your web browser go to your WD My Book Live Local Network Interface at: YOUR MYBOOK LIVE IP ADDRESS/UI (ie:192.168.0.???/UI
Go to “Settings”
Go to “Utilities”
Go to “Import/Export Current Configuration”, then click “Save Config File”.
Open saved file with a text editor ie: notepad.
In the text file look for "ssh_enable=“disabled” and change to "ssh_enable=“enabled” and save.
Go back to the Import/Export Current Configuration and import the file you just edited. This now enables SSH on your drive for the Putty program to work.
Download free Putty SSH software at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Enter the My Book Live IP address (ie:192.168.0.???) in the Host Name box in Putty.
The username is: root password is: welc0me (the O in welcome is the number ZERO)
Change current directory to /usr/local :

cd /usr/local/

Backup twonky5 :

mv twonkymedia-5 twonky5old

Create a new folder for twonky5 (I keep the original name, so you don’t have to edit param file) :

mkdir twonkymedia-5

Go in it :

cd twonkymedia-5

Download twonky 6.0.34 :

wget http://www.twonkyforum.com/downloads/6.0.34/twonkymedia-powerpc-glibc-2.2.5-6.0.34.zip

Unzip it after download :

unzip twonkymedia-powerpc-glibc-2.2.5-6.0.34.zip

Rename script of WD Live to avoid it rewrite twonky param every startup :

mv /usr/local/sbin/writeTwonkyContentDir.sh /usr/local/sbin/writeTwonkyContentDir.sh.old

Reboot :

reboot

After reboot you can config twonky with http://yourip:9000/config
Enjoy !

All process (you can copy/paste it in ssh) :