minidlna - Disable auto scan on boot, disable recreating files.db

Anyone know how to get this done? I'm creating the database on Ubuntu because my mr3020 can't handle it, but piratebox still trys to scan which cause minidlna to become unresponsive after a few reboots and beofr ethat happens I end up with double listings/entries when browsing in minidlna.

I read somewhere I may need to compile minidlna myself to disable this but I was hoping you guys might have a better solution for me

Also, if you know how to compile minidlna with this disabled, would be greatly appreciated as well



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/31/2016 03:14AM by Cantenna.

Hi,
no, it is much easier
The example piratebox-configuration for minidlna is pointing the minidlna database to /opt/piratebox/tmp, which is cleaned up on each startup.

Create a new directory:

mkdir -p /opt/piratebox/minidlna

Change the entries in /etc/minidlna.conf :

db_dir=/opt/piratebox/tmp

to

db_dir=/opt/piratebox/minidlna

best regards
Matthias

Thank you Matthias. I tried this, database is still getting re-created, adding duplicate entries and crashing.

I was able to find a solution though, I wrote a simple script to auto restore the ubuntu made database every 30 seconds while the router is running. Now its up and running with very few duplicate entries and it doesn't crash.

I guess it could be beneficial if there was a way to re-compile the minidlna binary with auto-scan disabled although this fix works too.

best regards,

Cantenna



Edited 27 time(s). Last edit at 11/02/2016 09:59PM by Cantenna.