Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Spoon
did you by any chance have the time to look into the "softfloat"-issue? afaik, I am stuck with the softfloat-version, since I am in need for java, and the prebuilt image I am using (it's a quite common image here, after a tech-journal published a project to build a music player (HiRes music -> USB->SPDIF) based on the RPi). So a softfloat-compatible version of Asset would come quite handy to also use this project as a streaming server ...

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

So this currently only supports mounted usb storage? Will there be future support for NAS storage?

You should be able to permanently mount your NAS following this guide I found and then use the last path as the media-path in Asset:

Create a new folder named nas
cd /home/pi
sudo mkdir nas
sudo chmod 777 nas

Edit the /etc/fstab file:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add the following line:
//192.168.1.xxx /home/pi/nas cifs guest,_netdev 0 0
(replace 192.168.1.xxx with the actual IP-address of your nas)
Mount the new drive:
sudo mount /home/pi/nas
Reboot your Raspberry PI:
sudo reboot
(just to make sure, maybe not necessary)
set Assets scan-path to to /home/pi/nas (or, eventually to the subfolder you store your music in, such as /home/pi/nas/music ) and give it a go.

Have not tested it at home, but it should work, it's a quite common way to mount a network-drive..


You also could try to include a WOL (wake on Lan) script to start your NAS in case it's not running 24/7:

install it on your raspberry using

sudo aptitude install etherwake

find the MAC address of your NAS using

ifconfig

edit the fstab file again (like above)

sudo nano /etc/fstab

and add the line

sudo etherwake 00:00:00:00:00:00 (replace the numbers with the MAC-Address of your NAS)

at the bottom of fstab and save the fstab-file

Should do the trick: once you boot your Raspberry Pi, it shoul automatically wake your NAS as well (given, it supports WOL, of course)

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Hi - yes I have mounted a cifs share under /mnt. I have another upnp server, miniDLNA, than can see them and index them. But Asset just seems to fail to see them - (BTW I have tried with miniDLNA both active and inactive).
Yes I can see the files using ls -al. I have mounted using root (sudo mount -a) , and so have owner root, but have universal read access.
I have looked in /var/log and I guess you don't write anything there?
Simon

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

the user account which asset is running with, if you type ls -l /mnt/media/ does it list the files?

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It is possible for the pi to mount network shares, I will add a how to shortly.

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Hi.. Can you point me to a log file on Asset please. I have created a readable directory under /mnt/media/ and copied files to that directory. I have set this as the media directory in Asset, but it's not detecting the media files.. am curious to see what is happening and why.
Thanks
Simon

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

I was wondering whether instead of usb flash drive would it work with an external HDD drive (say 2TB)?
Thank you.

I am sure it will- why shouldn't it, you just need to mount the external drive permanently (on my RPi, my mounted 1 TB USB-HDD has the path /mnt/usbhd and it works like a charm with MPod Player, so it must also work with Asset...)

[hugo5282]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Good day!

Looks like an exciting development. I was wondering whether instead of usb flash drive would it work with an external HDD drive (say 2TB)?

I am hoping to transcode ALAC to WAV with this.

Thank you.

[civiconfire]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

So this currently only supports mounted usb storage? Will there be future support for NAS storage?

Great to see this is in development, I have been waiting a while for this!

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

"Soft-float Debian Wheezy -- Nearly identical to Raspbian Wheezy, this version uses a soft-float application binary interface (ABI) rather than the hard-float of Raspbian, slowing performance, but allowing for compatibility with some specialty software that doesn't work with hard-float ABI."

We look into our compiler settings to see if anything can be done, I think this version is not a popular one. It is possible we need the hard float.

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Spoon, we're getting closer...
It says "ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, ...... Not stripped)
And as for the ldd command:
"Not a dynamic executable"

Followed your link, but another thread seemed to have an explanation (which wastoomuch for a linux novice like me):
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/vi...p?f=33&t=26429

I am using a prebuilt image and installed things on top of it, so the only thing I know that I do have something like a softfloat wheezy....

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

You are running raspbian as the OS for pi?

you should be able to:

file AssetUPnP

and

ldd AssetUPnP

cd /usr/bin/asset/bin

What output is shown for these, check this thread also, it is similar (where a program could not run):

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3//v...p?f=53&t=41139

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Not working, still...
I deleted the whole asset folder with rm -r asset
reinstalled the Raspberry version
looked into the bin-directory with the dir-command, AssetUPnP was there
tried to also start it with the sudo-commanc, which just produced the same error message
removed the file with the rm-command - it DID delete the file without error-messages
looked into the bin-directory with the dir-command to confirm: AssetUPnP IS deleted

So I assume, since the FILE itself IS there, that somehow, this file itself produces an error - or do we have a path error????? But then I guess I could not cd into all the directories inside /usr/bin/asset.
btw.: I also did chmod 777 the file AssetUPnP (no complaints of not finding the file)....

just to be on the sure side, I updated my Raspberry with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (now I am running Debian 7 (wheezy))
and the uname -rms command shows linux 3.6.11+ armv361
and also updated the firmware with rpi-update
and then installed Asset again.

Still it will complain about not finding AssetUPnP - does this file have any dependencies, it needs, or does it internally refer to anything it needs but cannot find?

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Reinstall the Pi version, then:

cd /usr/bin/asset/bin

sudo ./AssetUPnP

Does it run? if not:

sudo rm abc

It should say it cannot find the file abc

sudo rm AssetUPnP

does it delete the file (without saying it cannot find it)?

[dvdr]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Did exactly as you said:
I do see
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2513224 Okt 21 21:57 AssetUPnP

when I try to start it with ./AssetUPnP

I do get the error message
-bash ./AssetUPnP: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (which translated means "cannot find file oder folder".

I did delete the asset directory and started from scratch: same issue
I deleted the asset directory and tried it with your debian x86 version, just to see: there, the error message was "cannot execute the program" which for me means, that RPi can find the file there, but of course not exexute it since it is not compiled for the RPi...
So, what's your suggestion to try?

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

do:

cd /usr/bin/asset/bin

then:

ls -l

you should see AssetUPnP

when you are in this folder:

./AssetUPnP

should start it