[OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd]

You should be a bit more specific which distro you use. Armbian images were either Debian Wheezy, Jessie, Ubuntu Trusty or Xenial (support for Wheezy and Trusty removed a few hours ago). Usually Ubuntu images are more up to date (and sometimes faster since built with a more recent GCC version). So please add for which distro your instructions should apply.

 

Edited the first post and added the information.

[OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd]

Is there a reason for you to compile it yourself? I've been using the version from the official packages for quite a while now. I remember there were problems long time ago with version 0.19. But since Espen Jurgensen took over the development (from forked-daapd >= 0.20) this works very reliable. Installation from the official repos is really easy...

 

when i tried to use forked-daapd for the first time, it just didn´t work with my iTunes (OS X and Windows 7). Later I found, that Apple changed some small parts of their software

Getting the most up-to-date version of forked-daapd solved the problem. And it was just available from source.

 

The developer is very active, so I always have a very good change to solve any kind of problem just by compiling myself.

[OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd]

Script from #8 really works.

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/forked-daapd.service

and paste the script from #8. 

sudo chmod +x forked-daapd.service
sudo systemctl enable forked-daapd.service
sudo systemctl start forked-daapd.service

after that continue from 

tail -f /var/log/forked-daapd.log

from #1.

 

I checked it on my OrangePi Zero with Armbian / Ubuntu Image 

[OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd]

on https://github.com/ejurgensen/forked-daapd/issues/213 i found this one. Maybe it works.

[Unit]
Description=forked-daapd - DAAP (iTunes) Media Server
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/forked-daapd
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd]

 

found issue related to --enable-chromecast

my configure script :

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-chromecast 

 

any idea what's missing here to enable chromecast?

 

 

for chromecast you should try 

sudo apt-get install libjson-c-dev libgnutls-dev libprotobuf-c-dev

first. Then try to compile again.

[OrangePi as iTunes server with forked-daapd]

If you follow https://github.com/ejurgensen/forked-daapd you will get a lot of error-messages. 

 

Here is guide to install it on your Orange Pi Pc (Debian Jessie),

sudo apt-get install build-essential git autotools-dev autoconf libtool gettext gawk gperf \
  antlr3 libantlr3c-dev libconfuse-dev libunistring-dev libsqlite3-dev \
  libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavfilter-dev libswscale-dev libavutil-dev \
  libasound2-dev libmxml-dev libgcrypt11-dev libavahi-client-dev zlib1g-dev \
  libevent-dev

for Armbian you need some little extras installed

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev 
sudo apt-get install libjson0 libjson0-dev
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-discover libnss-mdns

then you run

 git clone https://github.com/ejurgensen/forked-daapd.git
 cd forked-daapd
 autoreconf -i
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
 make
 sudo make install

create the new user 

sudo adduser daapd

adjust the settings for your music-path in /etc/forked-daapd.conf

 

 on my Orange Pi, the file /etc/init.d/forked-daapd was missing. If yours is missing, too, just add it:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/forked-daapd

and copy this text inside:

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          forked-daapd
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time avahi
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: media server with support for RSP, DAAP, DACP and AirTunes
# Description:       forked-daapd is an iTunes-compatible media server for
#                    sharing your music library over the local network with RSP
#                    clients like the SoundBridge from Roku and DAAP clients like
#                    iTunes. It can also stream music to AirTunes devices.
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/forked-daapd
NAME=forked-daapd
DESC="RSP and DAAP media server"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

set -e

running_pid()
{
    # Check if a given process pid's cmdline matches a given name
    pid=$1
    name=$2
    [ -z "$pid" ] && return 1
    [ ! -d /proc/$pid ] &&  return 1
    cmd=`cat /proc/$pid/cmdline | tr "\000" "\n"|head -n 1 |cut -d : -f 1`
    # Is this the expected child?
    [ "$cmd" != "$name" ] &&  return 1
    return 0
}

running()
{
# Check if the process is running looking at /proc
# (works for all users)

    # No pidfile, probably no daemon present
    [ ! -f "$PIDFILE" ] && return 1
    # Obtain the pid and check it against the binary name
    pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
    running_pid $pid $DAEMON || return 1
    return 0
}

force_stop() {
# Forcefully kill the process
    [ ! -f "$PIDFILE" ] && return
    if running ; then
        kill -15 $pid
        # Is it really dead?
        if running ; then
            kill -9 $pid
            if running ; then
                echo "Cannot kill $NAME (pid=$pid)!"
                exit 1
            fi
        fi
    fi
    rm -f $PIDFILE
    return 0
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
            --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        if running ; then
            echo "$NAME."
        else
            echo " ERROR."
        fi
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
            --exec $DAEMON
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  force-reload)
        start-stop-daemon --stop --test --quiet --pidfile \
            /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON \
            && $0 restart \
            || exit 0
        ;;
  restart)
        PID=$(cat $PIDFILE 2> /dev/null || true)

        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile \
            /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON

        if [ -n "$PID" ]; then
            while running_pid $PID $DAEMON; do echo -n "."; sleep 1; done
        fi

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile \
            /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  status)
    echo -n "$NAME is "
    if running ;  then
        echo "running"
    else
        echo " not running."
        exit 1
    fi
    ;;
  *)
    N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
    echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Save it. 

 

Now we need to allow the service access to it´s own database:

sudo chown -R daapd /var/cache/forked-daapd 

Start the service:

sudo /etc/init.d/forked-daapd restart
tail -f /var/log/forked-daapd.log

you should see some activity on the log-file. After the scanning is complete, you can see your Orange Pi music-server in iTunes.

 

Automatic updates for the music-server (e.g. at 4am in the morning, necessary if you use a network-share for the data):

sudo crontab -e

and add the line

0 4 * * * touch /{path to your music}/trigger.init-rescan

[Reverse ssh-tunnel]

i checked the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config for several times - not sure, what changed, but: perfectly working! thanks for your advice!

[Reverse ssh-tunnel]

For my Orange Pi PC, I just switched from the buggy debian-image to Armbian. Armbian works fantastic, but there is one small problem with my ssh reverse tunnel.

 

On the (old) debian system i had my script tunnel.sh:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/autossh -p2000 -fNC -R 9000:localhost:9091 -R 5057:localhost:4949 -R 8000:localhost:8888 -R 10012:localhost:22 myusername@www.mydomain.com

The remote Pi will call my gateway Pi at port 2000. Whenever i call the gateway-ip:9000 i am at port 9091 on my remote pi etc.

Worked flawless.

 

After I changed to Armbian, this mini-script for tunnel.sh works, too:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/autossh -p2000 -fNC -R 10012:localhost:22 myusername@www.mydomain.com

I can log in by SSH on port 10012 of my gateway Pi into my remote Pi.

But i can´t add the other ports from the example above. The Orange Pi PC will reboot ok, but I can´t even log in by SSH through port 10012 of my gateway Pi.

 

Any ideas, what i am doing wrong?