I've been trying to get Photostation and Videostation video conversion working on my baremetal N54L installation (Jun's loader 1.04b, DSM 6.1), DS3615xs).
I tried a few SN / Mac pairs, one generated in the old format (no surprise that didn't work for DSM6.1) and a couple of new format ones from genuine Syno boxes, including a DS3615xs but no luck. Every time I check /usr/syno/etc/codec/activation.conf I get the same message - SN format is wrong.
What I figured out is that when I update the SN & MAC in grub editor, the activation.conf file isn't getting re-generated. (The time stamp on the file pre-dates my changes to SN & MAC.) So I renamed activation.conf in the hope a new file would be generated, but still no luck. The renamed file is there, but no new one is generated.
So my question is this - when I change SN & MAC in grub, is there anything else I should be doing to make DSPhoto and DSVideo do the video conversion??
Note:
- I haven't registered the SNs on mysynology and don't really want to.
- I have no need or use for quickconnect or push notifications and no intention to use them.
- I didn't flash the syno MAC to my N54L but Synology Assistant has no problem seeing the box and always reports the SN and MAC that I entered in grub editor.
I know I could manually transcode code my videos but that's quite a job. I prefer if DSPhoto and DSVideo would do it for me. Any ideas?
Thanks guys!