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RFC: "Demo Use Cases" documentation for the web page
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Darren Hart <dvhart@...>
Media Network Demo
================== We're looking to have a section on the web site for the demo that explains what each use-case is and possibly how it can be replicated. I'm taking the approach of describing each image. Consider the following: The Yocto Project launch event at ECLF 2010 featured a multi-architecture Media Network Demo. All the source for this demo is available in the meta-demo git repository as a layer for the poky build system. The following images made up the demo: o poky-image-nas o poky-image-mediatomb o poky-image-rygel poky-image-nas -------------- The poky-image-nas image boots your device as a network attached storage device. It provides a DHCP service and an NFS server. We used this image to store all our media. poky-image-mediatomb -------------------- The poky-image-mediatomb image adds a UPnP content provider via the mediatomb package. This image mounts the media share from the NAS and makes it available to UPnP renderers. poky-image-rygel ---------------- The poky-image-rygel image provides gupnp tools and the rygel media renderer along with the sato desktop. The renderer can be controlled locally or via any control point on the network. Several devices can run this image and stream media from the mediatomb device. Open Questions -------------- o Is this more or less what we are looking for? o Should we modify the mediatomb image to: o automatically mount a specific share from the NAS? o add something to the config to automatically scan the media share? o The poky-image-rygel description needs to be updated as we finalize the package. -- Darren Hart Embedded Linux Kernel |
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Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian@...>
From: Darren Hartboards list used in this demo. Also a simple figure is always more intuitive to catch the intention here. :-) o Should we modify the mediatomb image to:One thought is, could we convert this demo page into something more useful as the collection for various use cases on Yocto which can be contributed by any user, and then here UPnP is the 1st example? Thanks Kevin |
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Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...>
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:00 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
Media Network DemoThis is a good start. I don't know if this is the place to add it, but I just wanted to capture the details of what I've done so far to get my setup working. For now mainly in case anyone else could use some hints on how to get everything going... Basically this is just what I did, and it may be completely wrong - please do correct anything stupid and suggest improvements if you see any - at this point I just want to get the basic stuff up and running so I can pack it all up tomorrow night and not be too worried about not having anything. The Yocto Project launch event at ECLF 2010 featured aRather than using the nas image, since all I have is a laptop and the two atom boards, I decided to just do the simplest thing for now and have my laptop host and serve up the images over nfs (I was thinking of doing the nas image inside of say an arm qemu instance running on the laptop, and may still if I get time, but as a simple approximation, this will work. All this is also just a fallback in case the real demo system breaks down, so I'm not being too particular). So on the laptop, install the nfs server and export the media files: # apt-get install nfs-kernel-server Put a bunch of music files somewhere - in my case I put some files in: /home/trz/Music Add a line to /etc/exports to export that directory: /home/trz/Music *(ro,sync,no_root_squash) restart the nfs server: /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart Let's say the IP address the laptip got was 192.168.1.3. poky-image-mediatombssh into the mediatomb board, in my case, this is a Black Sand, and mount the exported media share: # mount 192.168.1.3:/home/trz/Music /media/music So now the mediatomb box has access to the files it's going to advertise. Let's tell mediatomb to do that. Look in /var/log/mediatomb.log You should see a line like this: 2010-09-08 10:50:03 INFO: MediaTomb Web UI can be reached by following this link: 2010-09-08 10:50:03 INFO: http://192.168.1.3:49152/ Point a web browser at that URL and you should see the minimalistic Mediatomb web interface. Click on the 'Filesystem link' and you should see somewhere in there your /media/music mount. Click on that and you should see all your music on the right-hand-side. Click on the '+' and that should add all your songs to mediatomb (watch out, there doesn't seem to be any indication as to whether it succeeded or not - I had duplicates show up in Mediatomb if I did that more than once - just like iTunes, yeah!). If you go the 'Database link', you should see a treeview with your songs somewhere in there. This is the same hierarchy you'll see and navigate to play your songs in the rygel image 'AV control point'. *Note, if mediatomb.log showed errors instead of the URL you need, it's probably because eth0 didn't come up (working on a fix). An ifup eth0; /etc/init.d/mediatomb restart should fix that. If that step was successful, you should now be able to see and play your songs from another box... On the rygel image, open up a terminal and type: # rygel (the latest image takes awhile to display anything - it's not graphical, will display a couple lines of text - one of which is an error message, but the 'playbin' plugin should say it's available, and things should still work.) Navigate back to the Desktop and find the 'UpnP Universal Control Point' and click on it. That should open up a graphical UI showing available data sources (but is not where you play media from)... Navigate back to the Desktop and find the 'UPnP AV Control Point'. Click on that, and you should see something more familiar, something that looks like it can actually do something useful, which is play a song. Click on treeview in the app, and eventually you should see some songs. Click on a song, and hit the 'Play' button, and it should play the song - it couldn't be easier! NOTE: make sure you have speaker connected to the board you're rendering the music on. If that doesn't work, try opening a terminal window and using amixer to play around with the volume e.g.: amixer set Master on amixer set Master 75 For extra credit, install gupnp-tools and try the AV Control Point from your laptop, or any system - you should see the same media and should be able to control it from anywhere. Choose a different song and send it to any other renderer running on any other box, etc. The possibilities are endless!
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Darren Hart <dvhart@...>
On 10/21/2010 05:26 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
Hrm... do we want to explicitly call them out? The point is that it was multi-architecture, but for some to recreate it, the point is that it doesn't really matter what hardware they have - poky can build for any of them.From: Darren Hartboards list used in this demo. What do others think, should we mention the specific boards in use at the demo? I'm not opposed to the idea, but for now, let's just make it a page where people can go and get more detail about what we did for the demo and get them started on replicating it if they should so choose.
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Alex deVries <alex.devries@...>
On 2010-10-22, at 4:22 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
boards list used in this demo.Hrm... do we want to explicitly call them out? The point is that it was Yeah, I think we should. It proves that it really does run on other hardware, and the demo hw is the example. Showing product names helps shake the image that this is IA-only. - A -- Alex deVries Chief Linux Technologist Wind River Systems |
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Darren Hart <dvhart@...>
On 10/22/2010 02:04 PM, Alex deVries wrote:
OK, so can someone provide me with an appropriate list of the non-IA platforms? I know them as "The MIPS board" "The PPC board" etc. -- Darren Hart Embedded Linux Kernel |
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Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@...>
On 10/22/10 5:04 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
On 10/22/2010 02:04 PM, Alex deVries wrote:arm - beagleboard (I don't know the revision)OK, so can someone provide me with an appropriate list of the non-IA ppc - fsl-mpc8315e-rdb mips - Ubiquity Networks Router Station Pro a.k.a. MIPS Linux Starter Kit |
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Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@...>
On 10/22/10 5:17 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
On 10/22/10 5:04 PM, Darren Hart wrote:Figured I should expand this..On 10/22/2010 02:04 PM, Alex deVries wrote:arm - beagleboard (I don't know the revision)OK, so can someone provide me with an appropriate list of the non-IA Freescale MPC8315E-RDB (I think w/ have the 'A' revision, but thats not likely important) mips - Ubiquity Networks Router Station Pro a.k.a. MIPS Linux Starter Kit |
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