User manual TERRATEC NOXON HOWTO

[. . . ] A troubleshooting guide for all platforms is also provided. 1. 2 Copyright and Licensing This document, Terratec Noxon auf Nicht-Windows basierten Systemen HOWTO, is copyrighted (c) 2004 by Manfred Dreese, TerraTec Electronic GmbH. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. 1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at http://www. gnu. org/copyleft/fdl. html. Apple and Mac OS are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, California, US. 1. 3 Disclaimer No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted. [. . . ] If this does not apply on your system and the device name of the according network interface of the computer is not eth0 or eth1, please change the device name manually as described in the description below. 4 2. 2. 3 Manual Configuration To install the musicserver, just copy the contents of the apple directory to the desired path, i. e. The configuration can be written with TextEdit or, as we prefer, the Terminal. You can find it under "Applications/Utilties/Terminal" If you enter the commands below as written (just change the values printed in italics to your individual values), you will be able to start the server within 2 minutes. cd /Applications/musicserver cat > twonkyvision-mediaserver. ini usecwd=0 contentdir=/Users/starxed/Music/iTunes/ radio=1 ignoredir=AppleDouble nicrestart=1 ip= dev=eth1 scantime=15 dc:title, dc:creator, upnp:artist, upnp:genre, upnp:album, dc:date, upnp: originalTrackNumber descriptions=0 Remarks : You must not copy the bracket (. . . ), it just means that there is no line-break. Remember that you have to point to you'r own audio folder in the contentdir= statement. The ip= statement can be left blank, if you use a network without DHCP Server you should enter your current IP here. If you don't know you'r IP, you can find it under "Networking" in your control panel or by simply entering ifconfig -a in the terminal. The dev= statement usually is eth0 for the wired ethernet and eth1 for wireless lan. If you are not sure if this also applies on your Mac, ifconfig -a will tell you everything you need to know here. If you don't want to type down the configuration file, you can start the musicserver without parameters, after terminating with CTRL-C it will leave a default configuration file that can be customized afterwards. cd /Applications/musicserver . /musicserver (CTRL-C) pico twonkyvision-mediaserver. ini You can start your musicserver now by typing . /musicserver (ENTER) at the console. Starxed-pbook:~/Applications/musicserver/ starxed\$ . /musicserver TwonkyVision Music Server Version 2. 4 When everything went ok, your mac will appear in the server list of the noxon player within up to 15 secounds. 5 2. 2. 4 Local "Firewall" To avoid problems with uPNP Audio Streaming technology, you have to shut down the local firewall or provide exception rules (aka. Trusted Hosts) for the Noxon. 2. 3 2. 3. 1 Installation under Linux Here and now As Twonkyvision is obtailable only as a pre-compiled binary, the Linux version is limited to x86-based platforms, like the Intel Pentium, AMD K, AMD Athlon, Via C3, various cyrix CPU's or XBox consoles which are running Linux. The Server has been tested with Kernel 2. 4. 26 on Debian/Xebian and various other distributions. 2. 3. 2 Installation The installation is almost equal to the Mac OS X Installation, which is basically a BSD/NextStep Unix with some Mac-Beauty on the top. In this example we copied the linux folder of the gzip into /var/musicserver and configured it as written below : cd /var/musicserver cat > twonkyvision-mediaserver. ini usecwd=0 contentdir=/home/starxed/iTunes nicrestart=1 ip= dev=eth0 scantime=15 dc:title, dc:creator, upnp:artist, upnp:genre, upnp:album, dc:date, upnp kein Umbruch>>originalTrackNumber descriptions=0 Please keep in mind that you have to change the values printed in italics to the values that apply on your system. If you need information about you'r network connectivity, enter ifconfig -a at the console. After saving the file with CTRL-D you can launch the Musicserver with . /musicserver, the startup can also be included into a init. d shellscript. 2. 3. 3 Firewall Configuration uPNP does not play well with Firewall enviroments, so we can only recommend to disable local packet filtering for the source-ip of the noxon client. 2. 4 Installation under Windows :-) The Server can also be run under Windows. [. . . ] In this case it is recommended not to use DHCP for the server and the Noxon (so the IP Address remains static) to make the firewall configuration a bit easier. For sure this leaves a number of security issues open, but we wont discuss that matter in this place. So this summarizes in the following checklist : · Does the Noxon respont to PINGs ?· Does your network adapter and operating system support MCClass Broadcasts ? [. . . ]