Hi all.
Firstly can I say what a brilliant piece of software piCorePlayer is. Its allowed me to revive and extend the Logitech Squeezebox items I'd bought for my girlfriend and give her multi-room music without throwing away good hardware.
The setup so far is a couple of RPi's (with piCorePlayer) as players along with a Duet all on the wired network. The LMS is currently running on my laptop while I test the player performance. So far so good ;) Future plans include upgrading the Pi's with DAC's and adding a touch screen to the kitchen Pi.
For now I want migrate the LMS away from my laptop as its not always available. There is a NAS (QNAP TS-210) available but because LMS is not supported on it and Container Station is not available on this model I'm going to run LMS on a dedicated Pi and just use the NAS for storage. So the point of my post is to clarify the configuration which, despite searching and a lot of reading, I can't find anything definitive (probably buried deep in a long thread :confused: ).
So the steps would be:-
1. Download piCorePlayer, burn it to a SD-card.
2. Insert the SD-card a LAN cable and apply power.
3. Connect to management webpage.
4. Optional - set static IP (from 'Main Page' in Beta mode).
5. Optional - set host name (from 'Tweaks' page).
6. Setup dedicated share on NAS
(For ease I could give full access to everyone or guest but with my BOFH head on I'd want to restrict that. In theory I could make the folder read-only but that would stop me saving the Cache and Preferences there to reduce wear on the SD card. So probably a specially created account with read/write to that share only.)
7. Install and Enable additional FileSystems (from 'LMS' page in Advanced mode). I think this is required so LMS can use the NAS storage.
8. Reboot.
9. Setup Network Disk Mount (from 'LMS' page in Advanced mode). Use 'CIFS' share type with relevant account details.
*** This is where its not working. I keep getting a disk mount error with the offer to reboot. ***
10. Reboot.
11. Click 'Configure LMS' button on LMS page to open LMS management page.
Once I've got this sorted I'll update this post with the correct steps to help others (hence the title :) ).
Thanks,
Paul
Firstly can I say what a brilliant piece of software piCorePlayer is. Its allowed me to revive and extend the Logitech Squeezebox items I'd bought for my girlfriend and give her multi-room music without throwing away good hardware.
The setup so far is a couple of RPi's (with piCorePlayer) as players along with a Duet all on the wired network. The LMS is currently running on my laptop while I test the player performance. So far so good ;) Future plans include upgrading the Pi's with DAC's and adding a touch screen to the kitchen Pi.
For now I want migrate the LMS away from my laptop as its not always available. There is a NAS (QNAP TS-210) available but because LMS is not supported on it and Container Station is not available on this model I'm going to run LMS on a dedicated Pi and just use the NAS for storage. So the point of my post is to clarify the configuration which, despite searching and a lot of reading, I can't find anything definitive (probably buried deep in a long thread :confused: ).
So the steps would be:-
1. Download piCorePlayer, burn it to a SD-card.
2. Insert the SD-card a LAN cable and apply power.
3. Connect to management webpage.
4. Optional - set static IP (from 'Main Page' in Beta mode).
5. Optional - set host name (from 'Tweaks' page).
6. Setup dedicated share on NAS
(For ease I could give full access to everyone or guest but with my BOFH head on I'd want to restrict that. In theory I could make the folder read-only but that would stop me saving the Cache and Preferences there to reduce wear on the SD card. So probably a specially created account with read/write to that share only.)
7. Install and Enable additional FileSystems (from 'LMS' page in Advanced mode). I think this is required so LMS can use the NAS storage.
8. Reboot.
9. Setup Network Disk Mount (from 'LMS' page in Advanced mode). Use 'CIFS' share type with relevant account details.
'Share Name' is what you called the share when you created it on the NAS.
'Mount Point' is how pCP refers to the resource?
Tick the 'Enabled' checkbox
*** This is where its not working. I keep getting a disk mount error with the offer to reboot. ***
10. Reboot.
11. Click 'Configure LMS' button on LMS page to open LMS management page.
Once I've got this sorted I'll update this post with the correct steps to help others (hence the title :) ).
Thanks,
Paul