Site in progress
Please visit the official HFP website here (hosted at my own C3HNAS, so please be patient).
I’m currently migrating the HFP project to this website, please check back later.
I’m almost done, so I’ll be keeping a log from now on.
14-01-2011 : added /etc/init.d/dropbear to enable dropbear as a ssh client
implemented the "hfp update-package" command
15-01-2011 : nzbget package added, including configure script
nzbgetweb will follow
combined several config files
/home/Public will now be accesible from within the chrooted environment
16-01-2011 : nzbgetweb added
lighttp configuration added
18-01-2011 : transmission setup added
19-01-2011 : added curl support to php, added strace
20-01-2011 : can't upload packages at the moment, don't know why yet
21-01-2011 : finally got mediatomb compiled with all options enabled (including mysql)
updated the list with scratchbox packages
22-01-2011 : par2cmdline added
trying to figure out why nzbget won't start at boot time
moving back to my own ch3hnas as repository server for the time being
cross compiled larn and even played it for a while ... until the seqmentation fault hit
24-01-2011 : reinstalled HFP at my own CH3HNAS to test the installation again
got locked out of my CH3HNAS completely, only way to gain control over my CH3HNAS was to remove the safefail file
changed the setup and install procedures to support a local package repository
25-01-2011 : packages are ready to be tested
nzbget(web) is ready
transmission still runs as root, has to be changed
php-cgi doesn't stay resident, but maybe it's better this way
lighttpd works
mc, screen, doprbear, openssh, unrar, par2cmdline, psproc, less, wget: all work
mediatomb doesn't work yet, the sqlite3 library reports a disk I/O error, maybe mysql works?
now, I should start documenting
28-01-2011 : installation instructions added
29-01-2011 : worked on problems Paul encountered while installing HFP (he never used the old version of HFP)
added the troubleshoot page
30-01-2011 : helped Stijn to setup the new HFP installation
fixed sqlite3, so mediatomb can store it's database (still have to find out what the problem was)
fixed another bug in the openssh package (problem reported by Paul)
31-01-2011 : added nano package
helping Martin to setup nzbget (as this moment, encryption doesn't work, probably due to a missing /dev/random device)
08-02-2011 : gcc compiler added - needs to be tested
hfppkg -r http://visscher.dyndns-home.com/hfp2 update
hfppkg -r http://visscher.dyndns-home.com/hfp2 install -f gcc
10-02-2011 : bison, make, gdb, microperl, automake added
using the current packages, you can compile the official rsync package at you CH3HNAS
Just wanted to thank you for the good job you are doing with the nas.
I installed 2.11 and the transmission worked correctly but sometimes it crashed. Now I have installed 2.13 and going very well, takes a week and started without any problem.
excuse my English and thank you.
Hi Henk-Jan,
Great what you’re doing! Just set up my first CH3HNAS and it works fine.
Just can’t the disk(s) to go into suspend mode.
In due time I want the NAS to take over the (usenet)downloads directly, so I’ll try to install the packages you built.
I’m a total newbee in Unix-county and before bricking my NAS it will take a lot of practice on an older pc where I’ve installed a Linux OS. I dislike doing things I don’t understand
Thanx for sharing your work!
Neither can I (get the disks into suspend mode)
Hi Henk-Jan! Congrats for this website
.
I’m writing to tell you about my experiences with the CH3HNAS. In the past, I installed the old HFP package: Transmission and Mediatomb sometimes crashed. Afterwards, I made a clean installation of the new HFP package after a hard reset (back button on CH3HNAS). Now, Transmission run perfectly, but I’m having some (and weird) troubles with Mediatomb: If I try to add a folder with videos, it hangs (with whatever kind of codec: avi, mkv, flv, …) and I have to uncheck the sync folder and reboot. On the other hand, there’s no problem with music or photo folders. If I run Mediatomb in debug mode, it gives several errors related to ffmpeg. Have you got any problems in this way? If not, could you post your config.xml here? I’ve tried to reinstall ffmpeg, with no success.
Thanks in advance. Regards !!
Sorry Riki, but I haven’t used mediatomb myself.
Ahh, I forgot it !!
I downloaded a new firmware recommended by Conceptronic Tech Support, at http://download.conceptronic.net/Temp/CH3HNAS/CH3HNAS_v2.4.9.zip. It seems that it solves the suspend mode, and now the disks turn off, and I haven’t done any factory reset. Enjoy!
Riki, I’m trying to get mediatomb working. With SQLite it hangs on creating the database. Also with mysql I can’t make it working. Can you tell with if it worked completely for you and what specific additional actions you did?
Thanks in advance.
Thanx for all your hard work. I almost thought I bought ‘a cat in the sac’ with this ch3Hnas.
I hope to find some time during upcoming weeks to make this NAS the way I want it to be
Oh, and thank you Riki, for the link to the newest firmware.
PS. Do I need to download HFP and all packages from here or from the ‘old’ website?
You’d better use the packages on this website, they’re more stable.
The old version had a better mediatomb, I think
Danny, let me know if you get Mediatomb working with videos. Photo and music folders are synchronized without problems, but with videos Mediatomb breaks. It really gets on my nerves. Thanks.
At the moment I stopped with HFP and other packages on the ch3hnas, because I want it to work ‘normally´ with my acryan mini. Which is not the case at the moment. On T.net I read a post from someone having sort of the same problems I have, which were gone after disabling and removing funplug, reinstalling firmware and reset to default settings.
Funny thing is, I can’t seem to find the funplug directory anymore. Where was it supposed to be?
Update (although this is off-topic in the Welcom section
)
Sorted out the problem with the nas and the mediaplayer. The files on the ch3hnas didn’t have the right read permissions. And there is no funplug directory ’cause I removed it. So it seems I can go back to re-installing HFP again.
You’re probably inside the chrooted environment.
Wow! Nice work..
I got my CH3HNAS do some neat tricks. Awesome job, man.
One thing though (to Conceptronic): not telnet, but ssh is on by default.
so \”ssh admin@[your ip-address]\” should be used. Took me a while to figure out that fun_plug was indeed correctly installed.
I’m trying to get some packages, but libpar2 (0.2) cannot be found!
What’s happening? Is the file missing..?
There are more packages (libraries mostly) not available through the install process.
Regards,
Melle
(NL)
Henk-Jan, thanks very much for your good work. I installed several packages and all works nice, mediatomb, nzbgetweb.
Do still have some troubles. I am planning to use the ch3hnas also for storing all my files. But until now I can only use samba. Since I have got only linux (opensuse) computers, I would like to use nfs. And I am not able to get that working.
Also the web login screen at the ip-address of my nas doesn’t work anymore.
Via telnet and the web based mediatomb and nzbgetweb all works fine.
Could you give me a hint in getting nfs running?
Thanks in advance.
regards Ed
Hi Ed,
sorry, I have never used NFS. When I work under debian, I use samba.
Good luck,
Henk-Jan.
Henk-Jan, at first I thought that it was an authorization issue with nfs. Later I found out that the problem had nothing to do with nfs. As OS I use openSUSE 11.4. The problem was LibreOffice. The file’s were locked. After I ‘remmed out’ the following to lines in de file /usr/bin/soffice the problem was solved: I could edit my documents on the nas with LibreOffice
the two lines in /usr/bin/soffice are:
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
Just place a ‘#’ before it and the problem is solved.
regards, Ed
Ed,
I see you have mediatomb working. I have been strugling to get it working well. I got it running with sqlite. I had to create a database manually. I can’t get this done automaticly. Also adding content doesn’t work. Mediatomb ‘hangs’ at that point. Is this working fine for you? Do you have any tips for me?
regards, erik
Anyone else has Mediatomb working with video sync? Please, a bit of light !!!
erik, I never use mediatomb so I don’t have any experience with it. I mainly bought the ch3hnas to use it as a server for my documents in a central place. I have two 2 tb drives installed in raid 1.
I hope someone else can help you.
regards Ed
Hi Ed,
can you tell me the way to get nzbgetweb to work? I somewhere get stuck (see also here: http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/36630801#36630801 if you can read Dutch)
Great job Henk-Jan.
I have run Transmission and lighttpd !!!!
But I want to execute my own script when the ch3hnas starts, when can I put the script ?
Thanks
In the chrooted environment, place your script in /etc/init.d. Name it S##, where ## is a number between 00 and 99 (determines when it will be run).
Ok thanks, but I want to put my script out of chrooted environment. The init.d directory seems to be overwrited in every start.
Thanks
Jordi
Your init.d should not be overwritten. Another approach is to place a script in /ffp/start folder (outside the chrooted environment, inside it would be /home/Public/funplug/ffp/start). Just call the script jordi.sh, it will be executed the next time you restart the ch3hnas.
Ok thanks, It works OK
Hi Jordi! I’d be very pleased if you tell me how to configure Mediatomb to avoid it breaks on video sync. Are you taking the same problem? Thanks.
Hi Ed,
can you tell me the way to get nzbgetweb to work? I somewhere get stuck (see also here: http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/36630801#36630801 if you can read Dutch)
edit: since it might disappear in all the replys from september
Hi Henk-Jan,
Is there a package that can shutdown the fan when the harddrives are not in use?
Regards, Paul
Not that I know of
paul, update to firmware version 2.4.9 to get the stand-by function for your harddrives: http://download.conceptronic.net/Firmware/C05-328_CH3HNAS_Firmware_Update_v2.4.9.zip.
Regards!
henkjan can you put me on the white list cause im that little
brother of Gideon
Hi,
I’ve been unable to get the scratchbox running using your instructions (will try until), I was trying it to crosscompile the missing packages to get: ownCloud running on the Ch3hnas.
Have you considered that? owncloud (www.owncloud.org) could be the ideal addon for our little ch3hnas.
Never heard of ownCload, looks promising. Maybe we can get this running with the existing packages, I’ll give it a try later this week.
It works great (on a linux server I have), it even has “grooveshark-like” music player
From the requeriments it seems it needs:
Hard dependencies:
php5 (>= 5.3)
php5-json
php-xml
php-mbstring
php5-zip
php5-gd
Soft dependencies:
php5-sqlite (>= 3)
curl
libcurl3
libcurl3-dev
php5-curl
I’ll try this afternoon (European time).
First test with owncloud:
PHP module zip not installed.
Please ask your server administrator to install the module.
PHP module mb multibyte not installed.
Please ask your server administrator to install the module.
First try (to use Pear to install required php packages fails:
root:/home/Public/www # pear search zip
WARNING: channel “pear.php.net” has updated its protocols, use “pear channel-update pear.php.net” to update
Retrieving data…0%
Killed
Hi.I want to know if you will update transmission to 2.50
Thanks for your support
(Sorry for my english)
I can acces to settings.json
vi /home/Public/funplug/hfproot/etc/transmission/settings.json
I change line:
rcp-withelis-enable – true —> false
I have other problem. How I do save the line?
Sorry for my english.
Resolved