yet everytime i try and start rsync as a daemon "rsync --daemon"

You're trying to run rsync as a server on the player, and as a client on your host PC. Altough this could very well work, it is much easier to do it the other way round. You don't need to set up any configuration file to let rsync work as a client on the player. If you want to upload to your player using rsync, you would need to manually remount your drives anyway, so there's not much use in having rsync running permanently on your player.

Also make sure you are running the latest rsync, available for the ARM platform here.

Pim