Serviio with Freenas

I've been giving this a lot of thought and research and have concluded that trying to install serviio on FreeNAS EMBEDDED is more than I want to take on. Event if I get all these packages to installed to my /mnt, and the .sh file correctly configured, I have no idea how to ensure that they will survive a reboot... Converting my installation to FULL and will try again. Will report back with questions. Thanks again for your contribution and support!

Zac

[dboy]

Zac,
Yea, sorry. All the work in this thread is regarding the FreeNAS full install.

Should have pointed that out, it was mentioned earlier in the thread than the post I linked to.

Yeah, I saw that. But when I started down this road, I didn't even know what the different was (Embedded vs Full). No worries... I'll be an expert in no time!

Zac

[moltra]

If you guys do not mind, as you are installing and configuring Freenas can you consolidate all the correct information in a new thread (guide) on how to install serviio and configure it on Freenas?

[dboy]

Moltra,
As I wrote a few posts back. All the info is here in this thread and not much can be added in a HowTo.
It is sufficient to browse through this thread only.

I might be worthwhile to redo it for FreeNAS 8 which was released about two weeks ago, but I won't go that route until I am sure it is stable enough. For now there is no easy upgrade path from FreeNAS 7 to 8.

Edit: If you think it is worthwhile I could cut&paste together the two or three posts needed for it? Any interest in this?

[moltra]

If you think that this thread is good that is good with me. I have not followed this thread alot since I do not have freenas running. I just wanted to make sure that if anyone needed help with serviio on freenas it was there and easy to find.

In a few days, when I have mastered this, I will work on a consolidated thread (Guide) on how to do this on a Full Install of FreeNAS 0.7.2. I agree with dboy that all the information is in this thread; however as a newbie, I can tell you a consolidated guide would be nice.

Zac

Ok i've read this thread, and ill try to see if ive figured it correctly..

I have freenas installed on my target machine, i now need to get ffmpeg & serviio onto / into this setup.

I gather i need to do it via putty (console) or SSH..

My experiances of putty do far are to set a com port, not sure how i achive SSH ..

I also guess i need to install via or using a linux console is this correct

Mart

Mart,

Assuming you are running FreeNAS 0.7.2.xxxx Full Install, then you need to first turn on SSH in the webGUI and connect using PuTTY (more info here: http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?Itemid=47&id=74&option=com_content&task=view) then use the pkg_add feature (more info here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/packages-using.html and here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1) to download and install the required dependent packages. The pkg_add feature will download the the packages from the FreeBSD ftp site, except for diablo-jre-freebsd7.i386.1.6.0.07.02.tgz, which i had to download manually here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. Be sure to

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setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/All/

See this post: http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2060&start=10#p11742 for a step by step guide of which dependent packages need to be installed and in what order.

Also, since I am new to this, I don't know why, but the -r feature in pkg_add didn't work for me, so I had to type in the full file name. I located the file manually through FileZilla first so I would know the correct file name. For example:

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pkg_add -v -r xproto-7.0.15.tbz

I might be misunderstanding the -r function, but I thought it would allow me to just type in the base file name (xproto) and it would locate the correct version for me, but I kept getting "file not found" errors.

Zac

Ah, ive just installed frenas 8 ....hmmm

i'll give your method a go and see what happens.... (its a learning curve after all ) if it goes wrong, i,ll drop back to 7.x

Mart

Good luck! I had 8 installed and running Embedded, and I liked the GUI, but I was having boot problems after a couple days (and not having made any changes) after messing with it for a day, I decided to ditch it and install 0.7.2.

Currently I am still stuck on getting the serviio console on my Windows box to connect to the serviio server on my FreeNAS box. I suspect it is a firewall issue...

Zac

If i need 7.2 do you know where i can get it.... freenas org, only appears to have 8, no archive files to be seen


Mart

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/

I'm using Stable, as Nightly seems to be for testing purposes, and if I'm not mistaken, they've abandoned testing on it anyway in lieu of 8.

Zac

[moltra]

Currently I am still stuck on getting the serviio console on my Windows box to connect to the serviio server on my FreeNAS box. I suspect it is a firewall issue...

Zac

DId you open the extra ports required for the console to work?

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You have to set system variable serviio.remoteHost for the console and for the server to IP address of the machine running Serviio server. Also make sure TCP port 23423 is open on both server and console machines.

If you are having difficulties to connecting to Serviio on Linux, this article on forum might help. 


Here is the link mentioned above
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=142&start=10#p873

Thanks for the link, was just about to dl nightly...will go for stable and start again


watch this space



Mart

Mark,

Thanks for the advice. My mistake was much simpler than that. I had recently changed the IP of my FreeNAS box (one should never program while inebriated) and was using the old IP on the console side to connect. Once I changed the IP in serviioconsole.exe.vmoptions it worked like a charm! SUCCESS!

Zac

Well that got off to a flying fail lol


7.2 installed, but cant be seen by my network...


just going to play around with the ip addresses

could someone help.. i always get gonfused with gateway address and dns address ...lol and i can never remember them


Done ...started again and let the auto option work...

set the ip and i can access the GUI.... now to lock it in on the router..




Mart

I seem to be struggling with the Putty & packages bit?

I can connect with putty, but then its seems to go pete tong.

Do i need to type the line numbers in putty along with the code, or just the code? or do i need another package to run the code?


Mart

[dboy]

Mart,
I don't understand what you say. Please explain better what you are trying to do.

You typically do not need to use line lumbers unless you use some really esoteric old fashion editor.

The steps to get started are:

1. Install FreeNAS full. (Install FreeNAS onto a harddisk)
keep note of the ip adress on the freenas computer.

2. on a windows pc. (assuming you are running windows on the other computers in your network)
open a webbrowser
write the ip adress of the freenas computer in the address field
log in to the freenas box
start the ssg service (to be able to access the freenas computer from the windows computer)

3. on the windows pc
install putty
double click the putty icon
choose "ssh"
write the ip adress of the freenas computer in the address field
click "ok"
A new window should open. Log in using the account "root" and password "freenas" (asuming you went with the default password when you installed freenas earlier.

4 If everything worked you should now be logged into your freenas server

5. Learn the basics using the commands
cd
mv
cp

hope this helped a little...

I got that far, and tried the pkg_add command, along with the ftp string (as it was an offsite file), and it just sat there doing nothing


but looking from the script i cribbed it from, it had line numbers attached, which made me think was is some for of executable script that should be run

Command line codes i'm ok with (DOS ) but i know linux ones are different , (and i need to learn the syntax)


I just need to hunt down the files...

pkg_add -v -r xtrans
pkg_add -v -r xproto
pkg_add -v -r xextproto
pkg_add -v -r javavmwrapper
pkg_add -v -r ffmpeg
pkg_add -v diablo-jre-freebsd7.amd64.1.6.0.07.02.tgz


I downloaded an ISO from freeBSD, but if i burn it as an iso, will i be able to extract the files i need, or can i get them individually?

Mart