So the folks at Amahi have, in their infinite wisdom, decided to charge for Amahi-Tunes. Instead of debating the wisdom of such a business model I now provide a guide to setting up the same service for free. This will require a little bit of effort but should result in the same end user experience. ...

So over the weekend I ran the software updater on my HDA, which I rarely do because it seems that the box gets partially bricked after every system update. Good news is that no bricking occurred. Gooder news is that the vnc problem has resolved itself. OK, I'll take that I guess. *shrugs*

I've searched around but haven't found much information on this, but... does the DLNA application serve playlists for use with movie files? I've tried putting m3u files in the movies directory but they do not show up on my WDTV Live. My workaround is to navigate to them using network file sharing ra...

A followup on the remote desktop issue where Avahi isn't broadcasting availability of the vnc service over my local network. It seems that after a restart the vnc service no longer is being broadcast - again. However, from the Terminal if I 'touch' the service file mentioned in my earlier post the s...

I found a solution to the third issue mentioned at the top of this thread - the HDA's vnc service not showing up on my Macs. It seems Avahi (the Bonjour a.k.a. Rendezvous a.k.a. ZeroConfig) service software was no longer broadcasting the vnc service. I don't know how it became misconfigured, but a s...

Thanks for the insightful reply, cpg. I checked the pid file over a period of a few minutes and it's contents are constantly changing. Then I checked the pid of the running instance of mt-daapd and it's value is steady at 2112. After that I thought to check the 'Servers' list in the 'Setting' tab on...

Another perplexing update. Now it seams the web interface has starting working all on it's own. So AmahiTunes seems to be functioning normally again... until I look at the logs which are still being inundated with problems. 2010-09-12 10:40:24: Starting rendezvous daemon 2010-09-12 10:40:24: Client ...

OK, I've made some progress while poking around with a sharp stick. I tried deleting all files and folders relating to AmahiTunes including the cache file located at /var/cache/mt-daapd which seemed to do the trick in regards to getting AmahiTunes to work again. I also deleted the config file locate...

Yesterday I noticed that AmahiTunes share was no longer showing up on my other machines (iMac and Macbook Pro). Also, my HDA's Remote Desktop server which lists automatically in the Finder's "Shared" menu was no longer appearing (the HDA is headless). So I remoted in manually and found a n...

I could certainly try, but will need a bit of help and a lot of time. After looking over the guide on packaging apps it seems fairly straightforward but I have several questions, most of which are probably basic. Should I post my questions in the Developer forum?