Dvico TViX HD M-4000 PA + AirPort Disk
I recently had cause to replace my wireless router because my old AirPort Express died. I had a bit of a quandary because I used the Airport Express’s “AirTunes” functionality to stream music through my hifi speakers remotely, but the Express is kind of a dated bit of kit now. In the short term, I used the TViX’s NFS streaming capabilities to stream music from my laptop through the TViX and out of the speakers, but this meant I had to have my computer on all the time.
I decided to get a new Airport extreme - it’s wireless-n compatible so its future-proof, and it has the option to share a hard drive plugged into its USB port across the network. My plan was to set this to store my itunes Library and share it with the TViX via SMB networking so my computer didn’t need to be on.
Initially, no dice. I just couldn’t get the TViX to see the Airport Disk. I thought I was going to have to go back to the drawing board but dropped a mail to the Dvico support desk just in case. They finally got back to me on Friday.
The TViX sends a username/password combo of tvixhd1/tvixhd1. If you set up your Airport disk to share using an account with these credentials, then put the IP address of your base station in the TViX Networking options with a Share name of tvixhd1, it can see the disk fine.
Only issue I’ve found - the box crashes if you have slideshow pictures in the folder with your music and you click ‘Play’ on a Music file. If you click ‘Play’ on an image file instead, it works fine.
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Etienne, Oct 24 07 at 9:52 amHi mate,
just got my tvix 4100 but am not networking as yet ! I havebookmarked this page for when I am ready with my airport extreme BS.
However, the box doesn’t seem to read MP4 ?? avi are fine but no mp4 ??
Any idea?
I have also tried to post on tvix box forum but they think I am a bot when I try to register
did u xperience any isuue your self?
cheers
tismey, Oct 25 07 at 1:12 pmIt WILL play MP4, but it depends on what ‘kind’ of MP4. MP4s created by Quicktime tend not to work, but ones that use the XViD codec do. I use HandBrake to do all my converting, using the XViD option in that.
matt, Oct 29 07 at 4:55 pmVisualHub will work with DivX as well. Annoyingly I haven’t found a H.264 conversion on mac that will work, visualhub won’t for instance. Can handbrake do H.264 tismey? maybe that’ll work as H.264 is the best format out there at the mo.
I just bought an airport extreme for my wife, hopefully when I connect a hard drive to it - I can use this page for help with connecting that to the TViX.
matt, Oct 29 07 at 5:08 pmcorrection - I bought an airport extreme for my wife’s laptop (I didn’t want you to think I gave strange presents to my wife
tismey, Oct 29 07 at 6:32 pmH-264 won’t work on the M-4000 at all - you need the M-4100 for that one…
matt, Nov 06 07 at 2:16 pmAh - that’s the one I use but I still haven’t found a mac solution to making H.264 that works so I’m pretty much using Divx.
If you’re thinking of upgrading to Leopard bear in mind that NFS Mananger is not up to date yet (why did I early adopt?) though there is a new MacFuse available.
tismey, Nov 06 07 at 4:59 pmBut apparently, setting up NFS Shares is easier under Leopard without NFS Manager, according to this:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071027120149491
matt, Nov 26 07 at 4:29 pmHey Tismey,
I’m glad I popped in here. It’s really annoying not having NFS set up for latest acquisitions. I’ll try that when I get home. I find FTP hit and miss so tend to use a 1gb jump drive, though I bought a 4gb SanDisk and it won’t work annoyingly.
By the way Paragon have releaased a finished version of their NTFS driver for Mac OS x - they say it works fine under Leopard too - with some minor problems with NTFS USB drives - ie the drive we want to use. I emailed them and they said the next update will addresss this. It’s quite cheap but I think I’ll wait for it.
duke, Dec 05 07 at 2:41 pmGenius!
Thanks so much.
matt, Dec 07 07 at 10:20 amupdate:
NTFS by paragon is working perfectly on my system and quite cheap.
All visualhubs H.264 work if you keep the .mp4 name - don’t call them .avi or the TVix won’t see them.
Still haven’t tried that NFS share yet - just got to get over my command-line phobia.
I’m getting an external drive for my airport extreme - cheers for this info - will be useful.
Chris, Apr 04 08 at 7:43 amHi there, i have recently bought a Time Capsule and a TViX 6500a, however, i cannot get the two to talk to each other via SMB using the settings you have specified. Help please, anybody, please…
tismey, Apr 05 08 at 9:37 amI’m not very familiar with Time Capsule, so you might have t talk through what you’re seeing in a bit more detail for me to help.
Can you tell me exactly how you’ve got the Time Capsule set up and how you connect to it from your Mac? Also, what TViX settings are you using?
Jorgen, Oct 07 08 at 9:11 pmDear,apple user can you help me with the setup with some screen shots,because i can’t get it work?
txix and airport base station/ex hd hfs+
thanks.
please anser me by mail!
tismey, Oct 08 08 at 1:30 amI’m away on holiday at the moment but I’ll try and post some screenshots when I get back
Jorgen, Oct 08 08 at 1:03 pmOk,thx
Jorgen, Oct 08 08 at 1:39 pmby the way,the tvix settings speak for themselve.
the apple setng are importend for me
gr jor
tismey, Oct 28 08 at 11:49 pmOK, so go into Airport Utility, select ‘Manual Setup’ and click on the ‘Disks’ section, then choose ‘File Sharing’. Check ‘Enable File Sharing’, then where it says ‘Secure Shared Disks’, select ‘with accounts’
Then click on ‘Configure Accounts’, and click on the ‘+’ icon.
You’ll get the following dialogue sheet
Username and password should both by tvixhd1
If you’ve got the TViX set up with the correct IP address, this should now work fine!
matt, Nov 23 08 at 6:58 pmHey Tismey,
Hope you’re well…
Just bought myself an external 1TB for use with my airport (I don’t actually use airport as I’m on mac pro connected with ethernet - but my wife’s macbook uses it). Anyway - did this setup exactly - the TVix can see my wireless network, have put in tvixhd1 as username and password and added that user in the SAMBA drive. But it won’t connect. I suspect I’m not connecting to the Airport Extreme properly. I access with the password but the next screen (TVIX Wi-Fi Network Info) only shows SSID: MyAirport, but the rest of the fields (TVIX IP, subnet etc..) are all blank. So this is probably the source of the problem.
Are those fields filled in your TViX?
Is the base station IP address the one it gets from my router? I have it set to Bridge mode which I assume is correct…
help!
matt, Nov 24 08 at 8:31 amfollow up:
i managed to get the tvix to connect by giving it a fixed ip, and it almost seems that I’ve got the hardrive mounted. But I just get a blank screen when I connect to the SAMBA drive. I’ve connected using the mac with the same login and password (tvixhd1) and there’s definitely a few files there but they don’t show up on the tvix. Very strange…
tismey, Nov 24 08 at 10:32 amThe files that show up on the Mac that don’t show up on the TViX - are they media files that the TViX can play? bear in mind the TViX won’t display files that it can’t play.
matt, Nov 25 08 at 5:37 pmYes, definitely, an AVI and a folder (I assume Samba can display a folder?). What’s strange is the Samba drive almost shows and then everything disappears - even the information at the bottom (the picture of a folder and a path), like it just doesn’t like it. I might pop a thread onto MPC and see what they say. Maybe it’s buggin out on me
The other annoying thing - but this is on the mac side, and is a airport problem is when I enabled Account/Login on the drive - everything that was already on the drive disappears to the Mac side (it warns you which is fair enough :). I guess this is because it creates a new folder structure (starting with Users)… (I definitely copied the new files afterwards though and they show up fine if I log in with the mac as tvixhd1).
Problem is I’ve already copied my 80gb iTunes to the drive - maybe I can connect it directly to my mac pro and move the folder into the tvixhd1 User folder…
tismey, Nov 27 08 at 12:34 amYeah, that folder structure thing is a bit annoying but it’s the only way to get it to work.
I did read something somewhere about file permissions on SMB drives, but they weren’t in connection with an airport. I’ll see if I can find the link.
Do you have access to a PC? A good test to make sure everything is working properly would be to try and connect to the drive from a PC (which will use SMB - I don’t think that’s what the Mac is using to connect).
matt, Nov 27 08 at 8:09 pmI’ve got XP on my bootcamp partition (purely for games
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