Problems with Firefly on Diskstation 207+ – for Soundbridge

[krolben]

Hey

I’ve followed various guides I’ve found here and on the Synology forums on how to set up Firefly on my Diskstation 207+, but nothing’s worked quite right yet.

Basically, I’ve tried 2 approaches. Each with their own results:

Approach 1
– Download mt-daapd_svn-1696-1_armeb.ipk from the nightlies section.
– Try to install using:

ipkg install mt-daapd_svn-1696-1_armeb.ipk

This results in a completely different version (mt-daapd_0.2.4.2-1_arm.ipk) being downloaded and installed.
After setting up the config file for the installed app it seems to run fine, but about 75% of my songs cannot be played on my Soundbrige. It gives me this error: “Unable to play song”.
The mt-daapd.log file simply states that the song was served to the soundbridge. Not that there were problems playing it.
If connecting to mt-daapd from iTunes on a different machine there is no problem streaming the files.

Approach 2
The guide found here:
http://www.synology.com/enu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=5240&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

I install sqllite, libgdbm, libid3tag and then mt-daapd downloaded from the link in the thread.
When startin mt-daapd I get an error saying “plugins/plugin_dir not specified”. The plugins dir is specified in the conf file and it exists in the file system.

So… which of these ways is the best way to go? I don’t neccesarily need the cutting edge version of mt-daapd (although it would be nice :D). Right now I just want it to work properly[/code][/list]

[fizze]

Well, if you have had mt-daapd 0.2.4 installed, chances are it wrecked your config file.
Can you post the plugin section of your config file?
Also, make sure that you have proper permissions on said folder.

[stretch]

@krolben wrote:

Approach 1
– Download mt-daapd_svn-1696-1_armeb.ipk from the nightlies section.
– Try to install using:

ipkg install mt-daapd_svn-1696-1_armeb.ipk

This results in a completely different version (mt-daapd_0.2.4.2-1_arm.ipk) being downloaded and installed.

What I used to do was download & save to public directory on my NSLU.
Then cd to the Public directory and enter

ipkg install ./file name.ipk

or something like that & it would install the local version.

I don’t do this anymore. Check out the installing a nightly build on this page

[krolben]

Plugins section of the config file (/opt/local/mt-daapd/etc/mt-daapd.conf):

[plugins]

plugin_dir = /opt/local/mt-daapd/lib/mt-daapd/plugins

The folder does exist.
I’m not that linux savvy yet, so how do I make sure I have the right permissions?

I’ve tried setting firefly to start with debuglevel 9, but may not have done it correctly as it writes nothing to the log.

Stretch: I just tried installing a nightly from the guide you linked to. I can add the package source to ipkg but when doing “ipkg install mt-daapd” it still installs the old version.

[krolben]

Sorry to bump the thread.
Does anyone know what the cause of this error might be?

[cromei]

I can not tell you too many particulars, but a friend of mine did get FF installed and working using the files from the synology wiki and the more up to date FF shown in the forum, what I gleaned from him was starting with a clean firmware install,
He unTarred all of the files from the wiki (gdbm,Libid3tag, sqlite) from the root directory.
Then he unTarred the FF from the forum from the root.
He then did the the library path thing to /root/.profile from the wiki.

However, he learned that some of the libs did not exist there they wer in a sub dir and needed to be moved, you’ll have to find out which ones since I don’t know…
He could then start FF and it worked… (I think). I am trying to get him to do a writeup of what he did so that I can post 🙂 Hope this can start you down a path to this working, because FF rocks!
Craig

[krolben]

Thanks a lot Cromei! That would be a huge help!

I’m trying out some stuff also. I’m currently fiddling with a nightly install using ipkg. There are some problems though: Ipkg always wants to install the old stable version instead of the file I specify. Weird but interesting 🙂

I look forward to info from your friend. I’ll also post if I get the above to work.

[cromei]

I can tell you he could not get the ipkg to work…

[krolben]

It’s installed. Yay! 😀

I ended up skipping the ipkg version. It wouldn’t install the correct package.
After doing a clean firmware install and using the Synologi Wiki + the updated files from the forums I managed to install without too much fuss. Some library paths were not entirely right, but I managed to solve it.

I’ve now got a perfectly tuned iTunes server for my Soundbridge! Time for heavy metal 😈

[rjchris]

LOADING FIREFLY ON A SYNOLOGY 207+
Disclaimer: Note that not all of the prerequisites or steps may be necessary such reinstalling your Synology or loading a particular version of firmware. I am not an expert nor did I test more than this particular configuration so therefore I included all of the steps that I actually performed to accomplish the use of Firefly which I know worked on my machine. I you don’t want to re-install your Synology or use the particular version of firmware, try everything but those steps you want to omit and see if you are successful. Also, I apologize that all the copying inside of the 2.07+ OS may not be the most efficient way of doing things.
Prerequisites
1. Back up existing data on your 207+ onto another storage location in preparation for reinstalling the NAS.
2. Download the firmware DSM 2.0-0598 found here: http://www.synology.com/enu/support/download.php#DS207+
3. Download the corresponding Synology Assistant software (use same version as your firmware) found here: http://www.synology.com/enu/support/download.php#DS207+
4. Download Enable telnet patch found here: http://www.synology.com/enu/support/download.php#Patches
5. Download SQLite 3.5.2 here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UYM5316L
6. Download GDBM Libraries here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LDGDKKNI
7. Download Libid3tag here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I711HSQZ
8. Download Firefly build 1696 (compiled for Marvell) here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LV6JZ265

Steps
1. Install the firmware update downloaded above in step 2 using directions on page 48 of the Synology User Guide.
2. Reinstall your Synology with the downloaded Synology Assistant from step 3 above using directions on page 25 of the Synology User Guide.
3. Setup the administrator password
4. Setup a folder named “publicâ€

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