Yesterday after a few days of contemplation, I decided to connect up my Drobo to the WD TV Live and check. I was shying away from the possibility of that not working together:-)
So hooked up the Drobo to the WD TV and plugged in the power and went to work in the morning. Evening when I came back, I turned on the power and changed the channel of the TV to show up the WD Screen.
All good so far!
WD started indexing the contents almost immediately. I do not remember what format I had done to the file system on Drobo, but I have three bays of hard disks with more than 4 TB utilized. This happened at around 7:00PM
The indexing was going on when today morning I turned on the screen to WD. I could see some pictures and movies when the indexing was going on.
Hopefully, evening when I go back home, the indexing will be done and I will have the full browse view option for the media! Anyway, next step will be to hook up the Sonos and see how the audio from the Drobo can be played by Sonos, Wireless!
Update:7/3/2014
Yesterday evening also the indexing was continuing. But I had to restart the Drobo and the WD due to external factors. And after this, the Drobo is not being recognized! I am not sure if there is any issue with the Drobo since I could connect another USB stick and get it recognized. Now there are some pointers on the net how to tackle these kind of issues and I am hoping it will work!
Update:7/14/2014
As per the pointers I deleted the WD files and disabled Media scanning, now its recognizing the disk. So that is good news. I am yet to try playing the media from Sonos. Will have to try it.
So hooked up the Drobo to the WD TV and plugged in the power and went to work in the morning. Evening when I came back, I turned on the power and changed the channel of the TV to show up the WD Screen.
All good so far!
WD started indexing the contents almost immediately. I do not remember what format I had done to the file system on Drobo, but I have three bays of hard disks with more than 4 TB utilized. This happened at around 7:00PM
The indexing was going on when today morning I turned on the screen to WD. I could see some pictures and movies when the indexing was going on.
Hopefully, evening when I go back home, the indexing will be done and I will have the full browse view option for the media! Anyway, next step will be to hook up the Sonos and see how the audio from the Drobo can be played by Sonos, Wireless!
Update:7/3/2014
Yesterday evening also the indexing was continuing. But I had to restart the Drobo and the WD due to external factors. And after this, the Drobo is not being recognized! I am not sure if there is any issue with the Drobo since I could connect another USB stick and get it recognized. Now there are some pointers on the net how to tackle these kind of issues and I am hoping it will work!
Update:7/14/2014
As per the pointers I deleted the WD files and disabled Media scanning, now its recognizing the disk. So that is good news. I am yet to try playing the media from Sonos. Will have to try it.
