How to Install Logitech Media Server on WD LIVE NAS

It took a while to figure out how to install Logitech Media server for squeezebox on my WD Live NAS. There are couple of forums in the net, but here is the summary. It worked for me in the first attempt

First, You need tool like putty (Free), to access shell. So download Putty from http://www.putty.org/

1) Access your WD Live home page, either by name or ip address

http://192.168.x.x/UI/SSH
or
http://mybooklive/UI/ssh

Enable SSH Access, as shown below.



2) Now launch Putty, Login to SSH with the IP address above



3) Enter the login credentials in the resulting command prompt (ssh)
login as: root
password:welc0me




Now there are 2 options, Logitech Media Server by default uses port 9000. If you have Twonky media server running in your NAS, it already uses 9000.

1) So, you can either change Twonky Port to something else ( say 8000), and install logitech media server
or
2) Install Logitech media server, and it will figure out the next available port (as 9000 is already used), most probably you will end with 9001 or 9002. I went with Option 1

Option 1 ( Change Twonky Port to 8000)
Copy paste the following commands in the above shell prompt,
1) Stop Twonky server

/etc/init.d/twonky stop

Edit Twonky Config file using vi editor. These 3 basic commands should help you.
To save and exit vi editor   :wq  (command includes colon)
to exit without saving (if you mess up )  :q!


2) Open Config in vi editor

vi /CacheVolume/twonkymedia/twonkymedia-server.ini

You can use up/down arrow to scroll through and locate httpport, press letter 'a' to be insert mode, and edit it as shown



 save the file  :wq

3) Start Twonky server,

/etc/init.d/twonky start

4) You can see it running, by access the web page, in my case with my IP
http://192.168.1.1:8000/


Now lets proceed with Option 2 to install Logitech Media server
Option 2
back into shell command, copy paste these commands line by line. third line with wget downloads the file. If you have newer version, just change the file url

cd /DataVolume/shares/Public
aptitude update

wget http://downloads.slimdevices.com/LogitechMediaServer_v7.7.2/logitechmediaserver_7.7.2_all.deb 

dpkg -i logitechmediaserver_7.7.2_all.deb

You are done. Launch your webpage, again with my IP address
http://192.168.1.1:9000/



Good luck