Update twonkyserver

I just did the power pc 6.0.32 version and still cant restart it. Should I pull the power cord on the MBL to restart?

Man this is complicated.

BTW I appreciate all the help.

It says “Daemonizing” now and the twonky config is 6.0.32.

I’ll check if it streams MKVs tomorrow.

I downloaded and upgraded to the latest version (6.0.34) which can be downloaded over here:

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

Have you also followed the additional steps I have written about?

  • between step 6 and 7 the files in the new directory need to have executable rights
  • Twonky would not start at step 9, so I used Winscp to upload the files, and after I mod them to 0755 Twonky started up
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Works great!  Thanks Mark. 

Now is there a way to get the Twonky license for free?

I don’t think so.

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.

  1. 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

  2. Go to “Settings”

  3. Go to “Utilities”

  4. Go to “Import/Export Current Configuration”, then click “Save Config File”.

  5. Open saved file with a text editor ie: notepad.

  6. In the text file look for "ssh_enable=“disabled” and change to "ssh_enable=“enabled” and save.

  7. 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.

  8. Download free Putty SSH software at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

  9. Enter the My Book Live IP address (ie:192.168.0.???) in the Host Name box in Putty.

  10. The username is: root password is: welc0me (the O in welcome is the number ZERO)

  11. Change current directory to /usr/local :

cd /usr/local/

  1. Backup twonky5 :

mv twonkymedia-5 twonky5old

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

mkdir twonkymedia-5

  1. Go in it :

cd twonkymedia-5

  1. Download twonky 6.0.34 :

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

  1. Unzip it after download :

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

  1. 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

  1. Reboot :

reboot

  1. After reboot you can config twonky with http://yourip:9000/config

  2. Enjoy !

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

cd /usr/local/

mv twonkymedia-5 twonky5old

mkdir twonkymedia-5

cd twonkymedia-5

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

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

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

reboot

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Thanks for the instructions. I cannot run the unzip command from the Putty shell - it seems that the command does not exist on the WD drive. I would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Thanks for the instructions - i think i got everything except that there is a last error when i execute the restart command; the pop-up says

Error changing directory to “Daemonizing…”.

Cannot get real path  for “/root/Daemonizing…”.

No such file or directory.

Error code: 2

Error message from server: No such file

Request code: 16

Have you seen this error before? 

Although, I checked my Twonky status and it did update to 6.0.34… Bad news is, still would not stream MKV files to my TV. 

Any information and help you can send would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi all

Nice to be here. I have few questions for you:

  • according to this site: http://www.twonky.com/buy_current.aspx is it really needed to buy new license? Does “free update” includes MBL? 

  • what are real diferences beetwen Twonky 5 and 6 for regular user? I mean those which are visible right away?

I am considering upgrade, but I don’t see any benefits so far. Of course apart obvious - having new version.

Cheers

I’ve just followed all these instructions and am very happy with how Twonky works now, and that my Sony BluRay player now picks it up.

Unfortunately, now the mybook live UI software doesn’t seem to be working.  When I go to the IP address, it used to redirect to /UI but now I just get a 404.  Anyone experienced this, or have any ideas how to fix it please?

Have you checked that the MyBookLive IP address for the UI is correct? Mine changed after doing the update. Fix is to just modify the IP of the UI link…

yeah tried that thanks - I can access Twonky at 192.168.0.4:9000 but removing the port gives me a 404

I just got into this topic as I have similar problems and was analysing for quite some time the cause of my problem - which was that my Philips Blue ray player needs loads of time before starting a video (any video) from the WD MyBook (with Twonky 5 of course) if it starts at all. So after all kinds of tests, including playing a video from the PC using WMP and from a Dreambox with uShare whereby both started a video in a matter of seconds, it became obvious that the problem lies in WD. A dissapointment that  I can now share with the participants of this topic.

After reading all posts I’m now replying to WDTony who is saying, among others, WD is happy with Twonky 5. Dear WDTony I hope very much you have read everything written after your post, to see how much time people, who have purchased your product,  had to invest into solving their problems with your product. Whereby they had already located the source of the problem and asked you to upgrade Twonky to 6. Which you (WD) haven’t done. The community had to find a workaround, helped each other to do your job, and are now happy your device now does something that it should have been able to perform from the very beginning. And instead of upgrading to Twonky 6 in your latest firmware, you are offering some sophisticated functionallity that nobody asked you for… this is sad…

Now, as I don’t intend to upgrade to Twonky 6 myself I would really like to have an answer from you whether you plan to upgrade Twonky and when?

p.s.: There is, however, a bright side of the story. The community! Guys, you are showing such a level of solidarity, persistence and invention that I have to bow to it. Unfortunately WD doesn’t deserve any credit for that.

Wow - thanks for the kind words.

Were did I say we were happy? I answered that for the most part Twonky was stable and reliable. Not that it makes any difference to you but most of our competitors are on lower versions of twonky than we are. I wonder if there is a reason why people haven’t upgraded to version 6???

These will be my last comments on this thread. I mentioned this in other threads that we are examining all options for this fall. About all I can say.

Tony

WDTony wrote:

Wow - thanks for the kind words.

 

Were did I say we were happy? I answered that for the most part Twonky was stable and reliable. Not that it makes any difference to you but most of our competitors are on lower versions of twonky than we are. I wonder if there is a reason why people haven’t upgraded to version 6???

 

These will be my last comments on this thread. I mentioned this in other threads that we are examining all options for this fall. About all I can say.

 

Tony

Tony, stable and reliable are important qualities for software included in mass-scale products such as those sold by WD, but you are lacking some other important terms such as “compatible” or “upgradable” or “cutting-edge”.  I thoroughly tested and scrutinized media format streaming from my PC to my Samsung DLNA TV before deciding to drop cash on a new NAS, only to be disappointed that the new 3TB NAS cannot handle what my PC and a FREE Media Server can accomplish.  This is both disappointing and total [Deleted] And your excuses, on the behalf of WD, are not solving the problem.  If you work for WD, why don’t you give us a solution just as all these other “hackers” are doing for this thread?  In fact, I’m glad you stated your departure, as you have added nothing to resolve the issue.

I am pissed off.  I work long hours and have a family to take care of.  Long gone are the days of solving [Deleted] like this.  I expect in this day and age to buy a “media server” from WD that can keep up with a TV that I bought from Samsung.  WD is failing in tihs respect.  fix it.

My Maxtor from 5 yrs ago works.  how [Deleted] is that?

Tony is not posting in the thread any longer, and I don’t blame him, but I did want to tie off on something here.  Here are a few things that I can and will say:

  • We will have updates to this product down the road
  • We are aware updating Twonky would resolve some issues and we are working on a solution for resolving these issues which may or may not be a Twonky update.

WDTony wrote:

 

Were did I say we were happy? I answered that for the most part Twonky was stable and reliable. Not that it makes any difference to you but most of our competitors are on lower versions of twonky than we are. I wonder if there is a reason why people haven’t upgraded to version 6???

 

I have to apologize to Tony… It is true he didn’t say “We are happy…”, but “Are we happy with Twonky 5? For the most part it is been reliable and bug free.” Exuse me Tony for my misinterpretation.

But anyway, WD does care. In many forums the company staff doesn’t answer at all.

And, yes, according to Toretto there are plans to solve the problem! Looking forwart to the new firmware!

So my problems still persist - is it possible to restore the firmware of the mybook without losing the shares I’ve put on it?

Worked like a charm Handyhand.  Even a linux n00b like me was able to copy and paste this in my Macs Terminal.  My UI is working and after I bought the new version of twonky everythings great.

Thanks to all for the twonky update instructions. Works great with my Samsung Blueray player. It didn’t stream much with version 5. If you are waiting for an upgrade from WD, you might as well use step 4 from Tony. The ‘netflix enabled’ WDTV plus I purchased after netflix came to Canada, didn’t work for Canadians. Check the forum on that issue! They weren’t even sure one would be available. Fortunately Nintendo’s WII had the software available in a few weeks! Needless to say the WDTV went back. It took WD almost 6 months to add the software to the WDTV (so I here), but I can’t confirm that. I waited a long time to purchase thie WD Live, and am ticked off that I have to spend another $22.00 to get it to work the way it is supposed to, although I probably voided any warranty.

Hi to all, I tried to follow your guide and everything went just fine untill zip uploading.

It was connected to the server, but then an error occured: HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found2011-08-29 08:34:06 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Please help, while right now the twonky doesn’t work…

Regards

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