Serviio on Seagate BlackArmor NAS

When inserting blank disks (or blanking the current disks), the default firmware will be installed. Blanking disks of course implies that all data on it is practically gone. ;)

I understand. I had hoped that debian was running in the background sort of silently from the system where serviio of course too would run. i assumed that the console administration (shares/raid/networking) would still all take place via seagates web gui.

Hm why do you think installing the debian "firmware" is not possible after updating the seagate firmware first? AFAIR, I updated to the latest seagate firmware before installing debian and it worked for me.

Since the seagate firmware is almost completely replaced (only the kernel and a few files/tools are kept), it shouldn't matter what version of the seagate firmware was present before.

Hi,

Ever so slightly hijacking this post

I have a DLINK DNS-320 NAS with similar hardware as your Seagate NAS which is:

800 MHz Marvell 88F6281 (Kirkwood) CPU
128mb RAM

From you notes I see you got Serviio running which bodes well for me as this nAS can also run Debian. However the main reason of interest is that I want to use it with my new Sony Bravia EX503 series TV which does not play mkv or divx natively (which my whole video collection is based upon).

So I guess this is a really stupid question - will my NAS have the power to transcode these files on the fly for the Sony TV to play?
I just need to know if this is a non-runner before I play about heavily with my NAS.

Regards,
DaScoobmaster

will my NAS have the power to transcode these files on the fly for the Sony TV to play?

You could probably do some testing with a throttled virtual machine or an old PC before you start messing with the NAS. I have a Athlon K7 750 MHz at hands if you're interested. :D
My LE37C650 plays mkv natively so there is no transcoding involved for me.

Good luck!

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So I guess this is a really stupid question - will my NAS have the power to transcode these files on the fly for the Sony TV to play?
I just need to know if this is a non-runner before I play about heavily with my NAS.

The Sony profile mostly remuxes (low CPU load), it only transcodes few file formats. So it also depends what kind of file you have in your library and whether they are SD/HD.

Gents,

Thanks very much for the quick feedback.

I have VMware workstation so i will try a throttled debian VM and see how that works before playing with the NAS.

The remuxing news is fairly good. Most of the HD stuff will be on my other tV which has a dedicated media player. However this is a second TV which will be used for mostly SD XVID kids films. So I will give it a blast.

What success I do have I will post up here to help others.

Cheers...

I have been running into trouble lately.

Initial connection from my Samsung LE37C650 to serviio on the NAS and descending into the first folder works fine.

When I try to list a larger folder (~50 items, ~450GB) though, it displays an error after a few seconds, saying the request failed. Maybe some sort of timeout, I don't know. When I retry a few times, it works eventually.

Nothing in serviio.log.

Is there something I can do about that?

EDIT:
just for reference, this looks related:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2277

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I have seen this before, looks like the TV doesn't wait long enough and works later because it's already cached. You'll get that working by removing <DeviceDescription> block in the C/D profile in profiles.xml. You'll lose the Samsung integration though.

hello,
I am sorry for my English. Ask me how everything back to its original state without Debian. It can be done so that I did not come about files on the NAS?

Hi,
for those noobs like me trying to install Debian - after you install it to be able to update it you have to change addresses in /etc/apt/sources.list (use cd to get there and then nano sources.list to edit):

http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

Then u can apply all the updates and continue...

Hi,
can anyone possibly point me right direction?

My situation:
Debian Lenny on Blackarmor NAS 220.
servio 1.1 with webUI 1.3 beta (http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=phpwebui)
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8.10) (6b18-1.8.10-0~lenny2)
OpenJDK Zero VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

When I start serviio manually bin/serviio.sh and go to web intf. all seems ok, serviio.sh seems running (blocks putty).
Web does not show server on so I click start server via web and putty shows this (web shows server on):
debian-armel:/opt/serviio# bin/serviio.sh
Exception in thread "Thread-23" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-24" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-25" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-27" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-26" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-28" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-29" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-30" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequ est(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequ estHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpSe rvice.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:2 12)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java: 192)
Exception in thread "Thread-31" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequest(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequestHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpService.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:212)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java:192)
Exception in thread "Thread-32" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequest(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequestHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpService.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:212)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java:192)
Exception in thread "Thread-33" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.handleRequest(DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler.java:73)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequestHandler.java:61)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpService.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:212)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java:192)
debian-armel:/opt/serviio#

Log files attached.

Thank you.