after long quiet time, I have something new for everyone who still has their HMNHD-CE: Syncthing.
It is a neat, open-source software very alike to BitTorrent Sync.
And since I had the Iomega/EMC LifeLine SDK lying around on my hard disk, I thought I'd try it out, so here you have a nice "application": Download Syncthing_0.9.2_armel.tgz
How to install:
- Go to the manage.html of your NAS
- Select "Application Manager" (I knew you always wondered what this item is for)
- Click "Add application"
- Upload the file linked above (do not unpack or anything, use as downloaded)
- "Syncthing" should appear in the application list
- an item "Syncthing" should also appear under the "Network" category
- Go to the manage.html of your NAS
- Select "Application Manager" (I knew you always wondered what this item is for)
- stop syncthing (black rectangle icon)
- remove syncthing (trashcan icon)
- caveat: the configuration, but not the certificates will be removed, so for complete uninstall you need to SSH into the device and type
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rm -Rf /opt/apps/syncthing
- First start of syncthing will take at least 4 minutes, no need to click the new "Syncthing" item during that time, just wait
- The item will only take you to http://[IP of the NAS]:8080/ - if you change the port and/or change to https in the syncthing settings, this will not be reflected in the Iomega GUI, just use the correct URL yourself
- syncthing will be very slow, since I needed to use the ARMv5 version (HMNHD-CE has no hardware floating point)
- this means you will need to be very patient - e.g. if you switch to HTTPS, it will take another 5 minutes until the SSL certificate is generated, there will be no indication about what happens, syncthing will be unavailable during that time
- also, scanning, sharing and syncing a repository will take quite a while
- even restarting syncthing can take up to 15 minutes
- memory usage is restrained to 200MB - this is probably too high because more than 128MB will probably bring the HMNHD-CE to it's knees already -- once syncthing will use more than 200MB it will be killed by the service manager (but restarted by it, too)
- UPnP and global discovery is active by default, anonymous usage reporting is disabled by default
- add repositories with path /mnt/pools/A/A0/shareName
- syncthing runs as root, so it has access to all and every file on the system, beware and use the "Master Repository" option if needed
- make yourself familiar with the syncthing concepts on their website - do not ask any syncthing-specific questions here
- I can also package this for the EZ Media, but this only has 128MB RAM which is really not much, so it might not work well at all
- packaging for ix2 or ix4 and similar might also be possible if requested
Stefan