Asus WL-500W is a greate wi-fi router with lots of features, one of them being able to use it as a media server to serve movies/songs over your network from a hard disk connected directly to it through USB. But the media server that is included in the official firmware leaves a lot to be desired. If you are a fan of twonky, all you would have heard so far would have been that to use it on your router, you’d have to change your firmware over to a non-official one. If you do not want to take any risks with the custom firmwares, I’ll tell you a simple way to use twonky with the stock firmware itself. Follow these steps:
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Download Twonky (The MIPS version) and extract/save it to some place on the harddisk attached to your router (e.g. /tmp/harddisk/part0/twonky/ )
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Create a new shell script for starting twonky automatically (Replace the paths according to where you stored the twonky files in step 1). All you need to do is create a text file with following contents and mark it as executable. We’ll name it init.sh.
#!/bin/sh
route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev br0
cd /tmp/harddisk/part0/twonky<br></br>/tmp/harddisk/part0/twonky/twonkymedia &
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Copy this script to your harddisk to where you extracted twonky files.
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Open up the router’s web administration page (most probably at 192.168.1.1), go to the USB section, and put the following line under “Initial Script”:
`/tmp/harddisk/part0/twonky/init.sh``
- Save, reboot and enjoy :)
If you have any questions, let me know. Infact, the same tip can be used to install many other such softwares onto your Asus routers series including WL-500g, WL-500gP, WL-500W, etc.