Twonky

Twonky is a commercial media server for music and videos. It uses DLNA or UPnP A/V to stream data to media clients. A license costs $19.95 or €14.95 and can be bought at the official website.

Twonky is available for the following NAS devices:

There are two configuration sections. The base configuration (to start twonky) can be found on the LG web interface. Twonky provides an additional web interface.

The custom firmware provides two Twonky versions. Twonky 4.x and Twonky 6.x. Their configuration sites can be found in the web interface.

* Read N2R1 + Twonky 4 + Firmware >=2642

Twonky has to be started once, to generate a configuration.

• Default: /mnt/disk/volume1/service/DLNA

Specifies the base directory of Twonky. It's recommended to keep this setting.

The Twonky web interface is available, while Twonky is running. To open the web interface, click on the Twonky icon in the toolbar of the LG web interface.

To delete Twonky, click on the Delete button in the LG web interface (not available for all Twonky versions/NAS devices). Otherwise delete Twonky by executing one of the following commands as root in a shell (SSH).

> rm -rf /usr/local/twonkymedia/

(Twonky 4.x)

> rm -rf /usr/local/twonkymedia6/

(Twonky 6.x)

Use a compatible DLNA or UPnP A/V client to use twonky. A free application is XBMC.

• MiniDLNA
• Mediatomb
• Official website
• Support forum