This article informs you that we recently facing some issues regarding the Twonky-media server after a firmware update. The Twonky shows no files in the shares at all.
To check if you have this problem described here please check the twonkyserver.ini in /i-data/.media/twonkymedia/
In the .ini file find "contentdir=". The stated paths might be something like +p|/etc/.../music/
If this is the case you have to change them.
If the .media folder should not be visible, please make sure to enable the following option in WinSCP:
- Download and install Notepad ++ and WinSCP (or similar tools for MAC or LINUX)
- Activate SSH on the NAS (Control Panel > Network > Terminal > Tick Enable SSH Service)
- Disable the Twonky Server on the NAS
- Log in to the NAS via WinSCP using the user root and your admin password
- On WinSCP click on Options > Preferences > Panels > (on the left side) > Common tick "Show hidden files" and click OK
- Go to the folder i-data/.media/twonkymedia
- Download the twonkyserver.ini and edit it with Notepad++
- Find "contentdir" (without quotation marks) in the twonkyserver.ini
- In the i-data folder, a folder is located like this "19f28ac7". Not the same but similar. In it, all shares are located.
- by "contentdir" you will find something like +p|/mnt/***/music. This is your folders were Twonky is looking for content.
Change it to +p|/i-data/[your_folder_from_step_8]/music. Proceed with all other folders - Save the Twonkyserver.ini locally and upload it to the NAS using WinSCP
- Restart the Twonky server and check if the content is displayed right.
The new paths should look like this
The folder on WinSCP:
folder mentioned in step 6
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Finally great solution. Thank you very much. I wonder why I had in twonkyserver.ini folder which I didn't share.
Hi, I did all this, it was all set to i-data/.media/twonkymedia, only difference was that it was +A|/i-data... instead of +p|/i-data..... Change it to +p, still doesnt work...
Of what I can think is mediaserver in UPnP port mapping is set to 9002. Could this be the problem? I can see the files in my network (drive mapped it ) but on TV it still saying Access denied !
And in Twonky Settings/Navigation/Available Servers, the NAS520 its not displayed, only my home computer...
Worked for me as well. In my case the directory path was completely empty as weel as httpremoteport so I can't access the Twonky admin page at http://nas:9001 address. Hopefully formal FW update with the fix will be available soon.
Hi, I would like to leave some notes on this solution.
1. It works
2. These new settings for twonky server are however lost after booting/powering on after scheduled power on/off.
3. So after each power on, twonky isn't showing files and you would need to do the solution every time.
4. I found out, that you may affect this by changing the setting: control panel - media server - share publish: when you tick the "all publish" (first column) then after booting twonky is working.
5. So for me, twonky works if I leave "all publish" ticked. If I customize "share publish" page, then it doesn't work and can be repaired with the above solution, but only up to new boot.
...and one note to the power schedule which is also mentioned in another thread as non-functional. For me, the problem was the wrong setting of time zone (so the NAS powered on/off in another time as I wanted..). But this is another story...
Hi, I did all the steps from the first post, but it turned out that I could not edit the contents of the file! I log in with an admin account, but do not have write permissions?
Have you tried to download the file first, edit it locally and upload it back ? (I recommend to backup the original one)
solved! I logged in as a root and not as an admin and everything is ok
Тank you
Possible alternative solution.
I went through all steps described above - it has not helped as my contentdir setting were already in expected state (there was nothing to modify)...but Twonky still showed nothing (to be precise - 2 music files only out of thousands music, video, photo files).
So, absolutely desperate I started to go again (100th time) through all Twonky settings and started to do any stupid experiments which could come to my mind...
...so I also changed server name from default "%hostname%" to real hostname, lets say NAS123. Then clicked on rescan folders and restarted Twonky....and thousands of my files started to show up...:-))))))
So, I will be glad if it helps somebody else too:
Good luck!
Hi, I had the same issue with Twonky and the desctibed solution didnt work. But after I disabled TFTP which I enabled today earlier.. it started to work well again. I have NAS326.
@Martin, @miki,
Thanks for sharing your findings! I will check these in the next few days and eventually add this to the article.
Hi! After renaming media files in File Manager, why do the files not use the updated name when I access them via DLNA?
Dear Mr. Tamás,
I have seen that the problem was already solved.
Thanks
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