![]() It took about 5 minutes for me to install on my Drobo (3 of which were remembering how to even access the Drobo Apps admin), and another 2 minutes to disable the auto-scan running on the entire file system and instead enable an auto-scan for only my Media share. And, best of all, unlike FUPPES which can take hours to update its database after you manually tell it to do so, MediaTomb updates the database quickly and automatically. I’d say the biggest benefit is that it actually works (unlike FUPPES), and it requires no configuration (unless you wanted to do the same alteration I mention below). This is such a better solution for Drobo FS and media sharing than FUPPES. MediaTomb isn’t just a UPNP NDLA video streaming solution for the Drobo FS… MediaTomb is the Only Solution… Nowhere else, in all my searching, had I even heard of the open-source application… and here’s this guy simply saying, “I had better luck with this”. However, as I got to the bottom of the article I noticed two lonely comments, the first of which simply made a casual reference to MediaTomb and linked to. While I didn’t find anything of that nature, I did uncover this article about how great the Drobo FS is at everything EXCEPT streaming media, which only further cemented my feelings about the situation. Then, after recently getting an iPad, I decided to search “Drobo FS iPad” to see if there were any neat tips for accessing or managing my Drobo via iPad. ![]() I tried every combination of search strings I could think of to solve my problem, like “Drobo FS and PS3” and “Stream media from Drobo FS” and “Drobo FS DLNA server” and got nowhere… It’s promoted on the Drobo Apps page, after all, and so I assumed it was the only correct answer available. I spent a lot of months (a few hours here or there, on and off) trying to make FUPPES work as my media streaming solution. You can read on to learn the backstory and hear additional details about my debacle. It’s simply maddening I spent six months living with the problem and only 5 minutes to finally solve it. I’m posting the solution here in hopes of helping others in my situation, because I cannot believe how difficult it was to find, and how dead-simple it was to implement. After months and months of grueling searches, annoying config files, and very little success, I’ve finally uncovered the solution to streaming media from my Drobo FS to other devices in my home (e.g.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |