Few problems with fvdw

[hamcloak]

The TV is connected via ethernet, directly to my modem/router (Huawei HG655d).
Yea i saw more complains about some servers not working, but i confirmed it working with Twonky, so this really freaks me out.

Where can i change the actual server port then?

[fvdw]

UPnP uses 1900 UDP port and 2869 TCP port.

see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play

If the TV is working ok what about your router, does it has some settings influencing the behaviour of Upnp ?

[fvdw]

think those posrt can not be set, remember its Upnp (universal plug and play)

you could use the media receivers menu in twonky server interface to see if you Tv has tried to contact the server..

This menu is present in twonky 6.0.34

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[fvdw]

i did some googling

I am pretty sure the problem is your router

Many hits are found that this Huawei HG655d does not forward uPNP for wired connections and that it works if the server is wireless connected to the router

Do a google search using: Huawei HG655d uPNP

also some workarounds are posted to get it working

ps I think you are from NL many hits on google are in Dutch, its a common problem of this router

[hamcloak]

Yes i am also from the Netherlands, with an Online (T-Mobile) connection.
Saturday i'm back home and i will take a look at the router, i'll keep you up to date guys :)

[hamcloak]

I'm back home again, i googled for a solution to stream uPNP via the Huawei modem, but i can't find any solution to this problem.
So i know almost for sure the problem is the modem, do you know any workaround for uPNP via the Huawei HG655d?

[fvdw]

for example this link
http://screenshots.portforward.com/Huaw ... d_UPnP.htm

It shows a screenhot that you have to enable uPNP....

[hamcloak]

for example this link
http://screenshots.portforward.com/Huaw ... d_UPnP.htm

It shows a screenhot that you have to enable uPNP....

That setting is about opening ports, it has nothing to do with the media streaming uPNP.
So i confirmed the problem is in my router, so that problem is solved for now.

Now i have another 'challenge'.
The Samsung TV can record live television to an USB hard drive, it uses an XFS partition for this.
When i create an disk image in fvdw and let the TV format it i receive an error. So i went into Linux and cloned an existing XFS partition from my other hard drive, but now i get the error: "disk image not available as share, mount failed with code 255". Is there any possibility to fix this?

[fvdw]

In fvdw-sl-11-0 the image made by the firmware and used in usb hard drive via back side port USB is formatted in FAT32. This done because that format can be read as well by Linux as windows. FAT32 is a very common format that should be recognized by your TV as it is used on many external USB disks.
If you have reformatted it in XFS using your TV then indeed mount will fail as it tries to mount it using settings for FAT32. It could be mounted as XFS, there is support for it in the kernel however that requires adaption of the scripts and daemons now used for this purpose. A check must be build in to see which format it is and then use appropriate mount command. Something that could be useful for one of the next releases.
Furthermore the mounting of a disk image is not as simple as it might look like, it is dependent on how the partition is created and if it contains partitions or not.

Of course you can try to mount it manually using mount command for XFS file systems, but that requires some Linux knowledge.
You could create a new shared folder and then mount your image on that (share/1000/name-of-folder). Be careful if you mount it on the wrong folder or with wrong parameters you might experience big problems including data loss.

[hamcloak]

In fvdw-sl-11-0 the image made by the firmware and used in usb hard drive via back side port USB is formatted in FAT32. This done because that format can be read as well by Linux as windows. FAT32 is a very common format that should be recognized by your TV as it is used on many external USB disks.
If you have reformatted it in XFS using your TV then indeed mount will fail as it tries to mount it using settings for FAT32. It could be mounted as XFS, there is support for it in the kernel however that requires adaption of the scripts and daemons now used for this purpose. A check must be build in to see which format it is and then use appropriate mount command. Something that could be useful for one of the next releases.
Furthermore the mounting of a disk image is not as simple as it might look like, it is dependent on how the partition is created and if it contains partitions or not.

Of course you can try to mount it manually using mount command for XFS file systems, but that requires some Linux knowledge.
You could create a new shared folder and then mount your image on that (share/1000/name-of-folder). Be careful if you mount it on the wrong folder or with wrong parameters you might experience big problems including data loss.

Hmm thanks for your reply, but i don't need to access the partition.
To explain the situation, my NS2 is next to my Samsung TV. This TV can record tv programs to any USB HDD, but the TV needs to format it.
When i format the normal image with the TV i get an error. When it's formatted, no one has to access the partition, except for the TV.
The NS2 is always connected to the TV by USB. So what i need is an partition (that i can format with the TV) on the NS2 that is mounted to the back USB port.