Using Sony Bravia televisions with Bubba|Two software ver. 2
Posted: 12 May 2010, 17:23
Asked by another forum member, I will try to give a short description of how to make Bubba|Two work with the crappy implementation of the DLNA protocol used in Sony Bravia products. Thanks to some great work from Excito and developers of the open source minidlna server, this is made pretty simple in the new Bubba|Two software version.
1. Make sure that you are using latest and greatest version 2 of the Bubba|Two software.
Go to the Status page under Settings and confirm that Software Version are 2.0.x
No matter what, you should make sure you got the latest updates from Excito by going to Software updates under Settings and update.
2. SSH into your Bubba|Two from you internal workstation.
I you are using Linux you just ssh right from a terminal by: ssh your-bubba-account@bubba.local
your-bubba-account should of curse have SSH enabled from the GUI.
If you are on a much less feature rich operatingsystem like Windows, please have a look at the Bubba|Two manual in section "Custumizing Bubba - SW & HW".
3. Now you are logged into Bubba|Two you change to superuser by: su
Enter the su password according to the manual section mentioned above.
CAUTION: Be very careful now you are logged in as superuser, you could easily destroy your Bubba|Two completely, making a reinstall from USB storage necessary.
4. Update the package lists by: apt-get update
5. Install the "minidlna" package from the standard repository by: apt-get install minidlna
6. Now your are done with the Bubba|Two part, quit your ssh session by: exit (done twice)
7. Go to your Sony television and go to "Networksettings" and search for a server.
Could be somthing like:
[HOME] -> 'Settings' -> 'Network Settings' -> [+] -> 'Server Display Setting' -> [Options] -> 'Update List'.
Your Bubba|Two shoud now show up in the list as 'BUBBA|TWO DLNA Server', and you can exit the settings by: [HOME] and go left on the menu to either 'Photo', 'Music' or 'Video'. Under either of these you should now find the 'BUBBA|TWO DLNA Server'.
ATTENTION: According to the Sony support pages for Bravia TV Sony DLNA only supports a crimpled subset of media formats for Photo: JPEG Audio: MP3, LPCM and Video (only newer models): MPEG2PS, MPEG2TS, AVCHD. As minidlna doesn't do transcoding you need to make sure that your media comply with those, and pay attention to that your Sony firmware version could play a role too - newest not necessarily equals bedst.
Restarting the Bubba|Two server could make minidlna stop running, which seems to be a small bug in the minidlna package, starting it before network is fully initialized. To manually start it after a Bubba|Two startup or restart, go through step 1 to 3 above, and then execute: /etc/init.d/minidlna start
The bug could be fixed manually after installation, but should and hopefully will be fixed in the minidlna packet some time. .
Manually fixing the startup bug include going through step 1 to 3 above, and then changing the daemon startup timing by first removing automatilcaly startup: update-rc.d -f minidlna remove
and then enabling automatically startup slightly changed from default: update-rc.d minidlna defaults 21
1. Make sure that you are using latest and greatest version 2 of the Bubba|Two software.
Go to the Status page under Settings and confirm that Software Version are 2.0.x
No matter what, you should make sure you got the latest updates from Excito by going to Software updates under Settings and update.
2. SSH into your Bubba|Two from you internal workstation.
I you are using Linux you just ssh right from a terminal by: ssh your-bubba-account@bubba.local
your-bubba-account should of curse have SSH enabled from the GUI.
If you are on a much less feature rich operatingsystem like Windows, please have a look at the Bubba|Two manual in section "Custumizing Bubba - SW & HW".
3. Now you are logged into Bubba|Two you change to superuser by: su
Enter the su password according to the manual section mentioned above.
CAUTION: Be very careful now you are logged in as superuser, you could easily destroy your Bubba|Two completely, making a reinstall from USB storage necessary.
4. Update the package lists by: apt-get update
5. Install the "minidlna" package from the standard repository by: apt-get install minidlna
6. Now your are done with the Bubba|Two part, quit your ssh session by: exit (done twice)
7. Go to your Sony television and go to "Networksettings" and search for a server.
Could be somthing like:
[HOME] -> 'Settings' -> 'Network Settings' -> [+] -> 'Server Display Setting' -> [Options] -> 'Update List'.
Your Bubba|Two shoud now show up in the list as 'BUBBA|TWO DLNA Server', and you can exit the settings by: [HOME] and go left on the menu to either 'Photo', 'Music' or 'Video'. Under either of these you should now find the 'BUBBA|TWO DLNA Server'.
ATTENTION: According to the Sony support pages for Bravia TV Sony DLNA only supports a crimpled subset of media formats for Photo: JPEG Audio: MP3, LPCM and Video (only newer models): MPEG2PS, MPEG2TS, AVCHD. As minidlna doesn't do transcoding you need to make sure that your media comply with those, and pay attention to that your Sony firmware version could play a role too - newest not necessarily equals bedst.
Restarting the Bubba|Two server could make minidlna stop running, which seems to be a small bug in the minidlna package, starting it before network is fully initialized. To manually start it after a Bubba|Two startup or restart, go through step 1 to 3 above, and then execute: /etc/init.d/minidlna start
The bug could be fixed manually after installation, but should and hopefully will be fixed in the minidlna packet some time. .
Manually fixing the startup bug include going through step 1 to 3 above, and then changing the daemon startup timing by first removing automatilcaly startup: update-rc.d -f minidlna remove
and then enabling automatically startup slightly changed from default: update-rc.d minidlna defaults 21