I have 3 My Book Live units on my local network. I know that I can enable the Twonky service on each device, but that causes 3 different media servers to be listed on my WD TV Live. Is there any way that I can configure Twonky on one of the MBLs to scan the other two MBLs so that I only need to enable Twonky on one MBL?
I tried to add a new content directory on the TwonkyMedia Server Configuration sharing page at http://IP address of MBL:9000/config. Even though I am able to add other content locations, Twonky seems to only scan folders on that particular MBL. I’ve been trying to add other locations for Twonky to scan with the following formats:
I would have thought not, but it’s actually quite easy to do this.
Assume that your “Main” MBL (the one you want to be the master) is named MBL1. Assume the other two are named MBL2, and MBL3, resp[ecitvely.
DISABLE TWONKY on MBL2 and 3.
Make sure all your media that you want to share from MBL2 and MBL3 is reachable via a NETWORK SHARE, such as \MBL2\Public
SSH into MBL1.
Create two EMPTY directories inside your PUBLIC directory.
MYBOOKLIVE:~# cd /shares/Public
MYBOOKLIVE:/shares/Public# mkdir mounts2
MYBOOKLIVE:/shares/Public# mkdir mounts3
MYBOOKLIVE:/shares/Public#
Now, “mount” the remote MBLs into those directories:
mount -t cifs '\\MBL2\Public' /shares/Public/mounts2 -o guest
mount -t cifs '\\MBL3\Public' /shares/Public/mounts3 -o guest
That’s assuming you did use the PUBLIC share. “-o guest” means don’t log in, just use guest access.
If you’re using a different share name, change \MBL2\Public to whatever it needs to be. If you need to LOG IN, then change “-o guest” to “-o user=xxxx” where xxxx is the user ID. It will prompt you for a password.
You can now go to MBL1’s TWONKY configuration (http://MBL1:9000) and add those directries to the list, via the SHARING setup.
Worked for me. I mounted my Primary NAS (an 8TB QNAP) and within about 5 mintues, I had about 4000 videos showing. :)
