Note: This only works for Twonky Server 7.x
For those looking to stop twonky server startup scanning behavior in 7.x
and still retain detection of newly added media
There is a thread on the subject here
http://community.twonky.com/twonky/topics/issues_with_twonky_startup_content_scan
The short version of that is to add the following commands
-scantime 0 -forceinitialscan 0
sleep 5
wget -o /dev/null “http://127.0.0.1:9000/rpc/set_option?scantime=-1”
To the /etc/init.d/twonky startup script like the following
Notes:
Tthe highlighted parts are where to put the commands
My example below, is not a stock script, so it will look different, but the command placement is correct
Your startup script is going to based on what guide you followed to upgrade twonky server on your nas
I follow this guide http://community.twonky.com/twonky/topics/how_to_upgrade_twonky_server_on_wd_mybook_live
There are also the ones on http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum:start
The above works as intended, no startup scanning
and any media added post twonky server startup
will be automatically added
There are two things to be aware of
any media added while twonky server is not running
will not be detected, and you will have to do a rescan
this shouldnt be a problem at all is it is set to run at startup
doing a server restart from the twonky gui or an rpc call
will not invoke the wget that sets scantime to -1
so it will go back to zero
if you do it from the shell “./twonky stop” and then “./twonky start”
then it that is the same as startup
and will get changed to -1 with the wget command
this will re-enable it if you have to restart from gui
