UShare

Ushare is a great app for streaming to the Xbox 360 (well tested, with avi files), PS3 (not so well tested) and perhaps other UPnP clients.

Ushare has an issue: it does not refresh it's database periodically with new files or folders being added.

Adding Folders

• On the hardware running Amahi, open a terminal: Applications-> System tools -> Terminal
• On windows SSH to your HDA [login with Putty]
• With Linux open a teminal

Log as root:

       su

Enter your password, then type:

       nano /var/hda/apps/ushare/ushare.conf

Now use the cursor to go to the line--> USHARE_UNION=/var/hda/files/movies:/var/hda/files/pictures:/var/hda/files/music

Now you can add the folders at the end of the line, every entry has to be saparated by a colon :

Ex: USHARE_UNION=/var/hda/files/movies:/var/hda/files/pictures:/var/hda/files/music:/var/hda/files/music:/var/hda/files/torrents

Now to save the modified ushare.conf file, hit F3 ot Ctrl+O . To exit nano, press F2 ot Ctrl+X.

So, any time you add any files to your movies/music/pictures folders, please restart it via the servers area (under Setup -> Applications -> Servers, with advanced settings turned on), or by hand with the terminal as root, with

      service amahi-ushare restart

We are considering issuing the research via a crontab every few minutes.

Now Amahi Ushare should be visible on your PS3 or Xbox 360. It will list all the media, which can be very long. I removed the pictures folder, to make the list more manageable. You can add/remove to fit your needs.

Logs & Other Goodies

• uShare logs are located at:

      /var/log/messages

• To debug a problem, create the problem again and take a look in the /messages log file, this will show the problem at hand.

• NOTE: Even if you change the USHARE_IFACE in /var/hda/apps/ushare/ushare.conf to eth(x) ushare on amahi only works with the default eth0.

The [ushare]server will show on your device but no content[movies,music].