When I originally created Synology packages for Java in 2011 I noticed that they are being referred to by some diverse projects, and one that caught my eye was OpenRemote. Since a NAS is a low power always-on system, it’s a perfect candidate to run home automation control software. OpenRemote aims to be the integration and control layer for a huge range of devices and sensors which use a substantial variety of protocols – as the project’s strapline summarizes:
OpenRemote is the Open Source Middleware for the Internet of Things.
This new version of the package is a significant update to version of 2.6.2 of the OpenRemote Controller. I selected this version because the drools component has been updated so that OpenRemote will run on Java 8. I have integrated the application with DSM’s Package Center and the software icons will be shown in main DSM applications menu when the package is running (button in the top left corner):
To use the software you will need to register for an OpenRemote Designer 2.5 account here. You will have to purchase this via the order process but notice the discount code for personal use which brings the price back to zero. If you had already created designs on OpenRemote versions prior to 2.5 there is a migration process to transfer this to the new version, though it looks like the OpenRemote documentation is overdue a tidy – much of it is clearly outdated.
Synology Package Installation
- In the Advanced tab of the DSM User control panel enable the User Home service.
- In Synology DSM’s Package Center, click Settings and add my package repository:
- The repository will push its certificate automatically to the NAS, which is used to validate package integrity. Set the Trust Level to Synology Inc. and trusted publishers:
- OpenRemote appears to need the unlimited cryptography policy files for the Java Cryptography Extension which are not included by default. If you want to use the Synology Java package you will need to manually install these policy files yourself, however I would recommend using my own Java SE Embedded package which does this automatically. Read the instructions on that page carefully too. Ensure you select Unlimited Strength Cryptography in the package installation menu:
- Browse the Community section in Package Center to install OpenRemote:
The repository only displays packages which are compatible with your specific model of NAS. The OpenRemote package contains no native binaries at all, so it will work on any NAS that can run Java. This package does now require at least DSM 5.0.
Notes
- You will only be able to sync the Controller with your Designer account once you have designed something. Until then, the sync will fail. This is normal.
- Since this package does not include native binaries, if you need drivers for additional devices such as USB serial dongles, USB Z-Wave adapters etc., you will need to find these elsewhere. Rather than duplicating effort I will defer to the expertise of fellow Synology package developer jadahl who seems to have this part covered already.
- Previous versions of this package required a port change to TCP18581 for the controller which required a matching config change in OpenRemote Designer. This is no longer necessary since the Controller now uses TCP8688 by default which does not clash with any Synology services.
- OpenRemote saves your designs in the cloud with your online account, and the controller syncs with those designs. This means that you can uninstall the package without losing your designs.
- You can see the Controller’s log in Package Center
- DSM Package Center installs the application to /var/packages/OpenRemote/target. If you need to edit config files, or look at other logs in detail via SSH – that’s where you’ll find them.
Package scripts
For information, here are the package scripts so you can see what it’s going to do. You can get more information about how packages work by reading the Synology 3rd Party Developer Guide.
installer.sh
#!/bin/sh
#--------OPENREMOTE installer script
#--------package maintained at pcloadletter.co.uk
DOWNLOAD_FILE="OpenRemote_Controller.zip"
DOWNLOAD_PATH="https://github.com/openremote/Controller/releases/download/v2.6.0_beta"
DOWNLOAD_URL="${DOWNLOAD_PATH}/${DOWNLOAD_FILE}"
EXTRACTED_FOLDER="OpenRemote-Controller"
DAEMON_USER="`echo ${SYNOPKG_PKGNAME} | awk {'print tolower($_)'}`"
DAEMON_PASS="`openssl rand 12 -base64 2>/dev/null`"
DAEMON_ID="${SYNOPKG_PKGNAME} daemon user"
ENGINE_SCRIPT="openremote.sh"
CATALINA_PID="${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST}/${SYNOPKG_PKGNAME}.pid"
#'ua' prefix means wget user-agent will be customized
INSTALL_FILES="ua${DOWNLOAD_URL}"
TEMP_FOLDER="`find / -maxdepth 2 -path '/volume?/@tmp' | head -n 1`"
source /etc/profile
pre_checks ()
{
if [ -z ${JAVA_HOME} ]; then
echo "Java is not installed or not properly configured. JAVA_HOME is not defined. " >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
echo "Download and install the Java Synology package from http://wp.me/pVshC-z5" >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java ]; then
echo "Java is not installed or not properly configured. The Java binary could not be located. " >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
echo "Download and install the Java Synology package from http://wp.me/pVshC-z5" >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
exit 1
fi
#is the User Home service enabled?
if [ "`synogetkeyvalue /etc/synoinfo.conf userHomeEnable`" == "no" ]; then
echo "The User Home service is not enabled. Please enable this feature in the User control panel in DSM." >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
exit 1
fi
}
preinst ()
{
pre_checks
cd ${TEMP_FOLDER}
for WGET_URL in ${INSTALL_FILES}
do
WGET_FILENAME="`echo ${WGET_URL} | sed -r "s%^.*/(.*)%\1%"`"
[ -f ${TEMP_FOLDER}/${WGET_FILENAME} ] && rm ${TEMP_FOLDER}/${WGET_FILENAME}
#this will allow openremote.org to track the number of downloads from Synology users
WGET_URL=`echo ${WGET_URL} | sed -e "s%^ua%--user-agent=Synology --referer=https://pcloadletter.co.uk/2011/10/25/openremote-package-for-synology/ %"`
wget ${WGET_URL}
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
if [ -d ${PUBLIC_FOLDER} ] && [ -f ${PUBLIC_FOLDER}/${WGET_FILENAME} ]; then
cp ${PUBLIC_FOLDER}/${WGET_FILENAME} ${TEMP_FOLDER}
else
echo "There was a problem downloading ${WGET_FILENAME} from the official download link, " >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
echo "which was \"${WGET_URL}\" " >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
echo "Alternatively, you may download this file manually and place it in the 'public' shared folder. " >> $SYNOPKG_TEMP_LOGFILE
exit 1
fi
fi
done
exit 0
}
postinst ()
{
#create daemon user
synouser --add ${DAEMON_USER} ${DAEMON_PASS} "${DAEMON_ID}" 0 "" ""
#extract main archive
cd ${TEMP_FOLDER}
#DSM 6.0 no longer includes unzip, use 7z instead
unzip ${TEMP_FOLDER}/${DOWNLOAD_FILE} || 7z x -y ${TEMP_FOLDER}/${DOWNLOAD_FILE} > /dev/null
rm ${TEMP_FOLDER}/${DOWNLOAD_FILE}
mv ${TEMP_FOLDER}/${EXTRACTED_FOLDER}/* ${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST}
rmdir ${TEMP_FOLDER}/${EXTRACTED_FOLDER}
chmod +x ${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST}/bin/${ENGINE_SCRIPT}
#TCP port 8081 is in use on Synology so we need to move Catalina to another port - 18581
#This regex was tricky, but possible thanks to http://austinmatzko.com/2008/04/26/sed-multi-line-search-and-replace/
#sed -i -n '1h;1!H;${;g;s%\(<Connector executor="HTTP-ThreadPool".*port="\)8080\(".* />\)%\118581\2%;p;}' ${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST}/conf/server.xml
#sed -i "s/^webapp.port=.*$/webapp.port=18581/" ${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST}/webapps/controller/WEB-INF/classes/config.properties
#change owner of folder tree
chown -R ${DAEMON_USER} ${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST}
#determine the daemon user homedir and save that variable in the user's profile
#this is needed because new users seem to inherit a HOME value of /root which they have no permissions for
DAEMON_HOME="`cat /etc/passwd | grep "${DAEMON_ID}" | cut -f6 -d':'`"
su - ${DAEMON_USER} -s /bin/sh -c "echo export HOME=\'${DAEMON_HOME}\' >> /var/services/homes/${DAEMON_USER}/.profile"
su - ${DAEMON_USER} -s /bin/sh -c "echo export CATALINA_PID=\'${CATALINA_PID}\' >> /var/services/homes/${DAEMON_USER}/.profile"
#add firewall config
/usr/syno/bin/servicetool --install-configure-file --package /var/packages/${SYNOPKG_PKGNAME}/scripts/${SYNOPKG_PKGNAME}.sc > /dev/null
exit 0
}
preuninst ()
{
`dirname $0`/stop-start-status stop
exit 0
}
postuninst ()
{
#remove daemon user
synouser --del ${DAEMON_USER}
#remove firewall config
if [ "${SYNOPKG_PKG_STATUS}" == "UNINSTALL" ]; then
/usr/syno/bin/servicetool --remove-configure-file --package ${SYNOPKG_PKGNAME}.sc > /dev/null
fi
#remove daemon user's home directory (needed since DSM 4.1)
[ -e /var/services/homes/${DAEMON_USER} ] && rm -r /var/services/homes/${DAEMON_USER}
exit 0
}
start-stop-status.sh
#!/bin/sh
#--------OPENREMOTE start-stop-status script
#--------package maintained at pcloadletter.co.uk
DNAME="`dirname $0 | cut -f4 -d'/'`"
DAEMON_USER="`echo ${DNAME} | awk {'print tolower($_)'}`"
DAEMON_ID="${DNAME} daemon user"
DAEMON_HOME="`cat /etc/passwd | grep "${DAEMON_ID}" | cut -f6 -d':'`"
PKG_FOLDER="`dirname $0 | cut -f1-4 -d'/'`"
#DLOG="${PKG_FOLDER}/target/logs/catalina.out"
DLOG="${PKG_FOLDER}/target/logs/container/stderrout.log"
PID_FILE="${PKG_FOLDER}/target/${DNAME}.pid"
ENGINE_SCRIPT="openremote.sh"
TIMESTAMP="`date "+%F %X,000"`"
source /etc/profile
source /root/.profile
start_daemon ()
{
#set the current timezone for Java so that log timestamps are accurate, modern timezone names so DST works
SYNO_TZ=`cat /etc/synoinfo.conf | grep timezone | cut -f2 -d'"'`
#fix for DST time in DSM 5.2 thanks to MinimServer Syno package author
[ -e /usr/share/zoneinfo/Timezone/synotztable.json ] \
&& SYNO_TZ=`jq ".${SYNO_TZ} | .nameInTZDB" /usr/share/zoneinfo/Timezone/synotztable.json | sed -e "s/\"//g"` \
|| SYNO_TZ=`grep "^${SYNO_TZ}" /usr/share/zoneinfo/Timezone/tzname | sed -e "s/^.*= //"`
grep "^export TZ" ${DAEMON_HOME}/.profile > /dev/null \
&& sed -i "s%^export TZ=.*$%export TZ='${SYNO_TZ}'%" ${DAEMON_HOME}/.profile \
|| echo export TZ=\'${SYNO_TZ}\' >> ${DAEMON_HOME}/.profile
su - ${DAEMON_USER} -s /bin/sh -c "cd ${PKG_FOLDER}/target/bin && source ~/.profile && ./${ENGINE_SCRIPT} start"
if [ -z ${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST} ]; then
#script was manually invoked, need this to show status change in Package Center
[ -e ${PKG_FOLDER}/enabled ] || touch ${PKG_FOLDER}/enabled
fi
}
stop_daemon ()
{
kill `cat ${PID_FILE}`
wait_for_status 1 20 || kill -9 `cat ${PID_FILE}`
rm -f ${PID_FILE}
if [ -z ${SYNOPKG_PKGDEST} ]; then
#script was manually invoked, need this to show status change in Package Center
[ -e ${PKG_FOLDER}/enabled ] && rm ${PKG_FOLDER}/enabled
fi
}
daemon_status ()
{
if [ -f ${PID_FILE} ] && kill -0 `cat ${PID_FILE}` > /dev/null 2>&1; then
return
fi
rm -f ${PID_FILE}
return 1
}
wait_for_status ()
{
counter=$2
while [ ${counter} -gt 0 ]; do
daemon_status
[ $? -eq $1 ] && return
let counter=counter-1
sleep 1
done
return 1
}
case $1 in
start)
if daemon_status; then
echo ${DNAME} is already running with PID `cat ${PID_FILE}`
exit 0
else
echo Starting ${DNAME} ...
start_daemon
exit $?
fi
;;
stop)
if daemon_status; then
echo Stopping ${DNAME} ...
stop_daemon
exit $?
else
echo ${DNAME} is not running
exit 0
fi
;;
restart)
stop_daemon
start_daemon
exit $?
;;
status)
if daemon_status; then
echo ${DNAME} is running with PID `cat ${PID_FILE}`
exit 0
else
echo ${DNAME} is not running
exit 1
fi
;;
log)
echo "${DLOG}"
exit 0
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
Changelog:
- 2.6.2-0010 25 Jul 2016 – Substantial re-brand and overhaul for DSM 6.0, updated to OpenRemote Controller 2.6.2 beta which adds Java 8 compatibility, Controller is now the Pro version which is free for personal non-commercial use – registration for an OpenRemote Designer account is required, added many enhancements developed for other packages
- 2.1.1-0009 May 2016 – Abandoned test, never published
- 2.0.1-0008 23 Jan 2013 – Changes not recorded
- 2.0.1-0007 20 Jan 2013 – Fixes for DSM 4.2
- 2.0.1-006 24 Nov 2012 – Updated to release 2.0.1, merged the package scripts for easier maintenance
- 2.0.0-005 12 Mar 2012 – Updated to release 2.0 with Web Console, package now downloads installation files directly from openremote.org, removed Java 6 check, timezone support for Java, icons vanish from DSM menu when package in stopped state, added URL for Web Console to Package Info in Package Center
- 2.0.0_20110611-004 18 Nov 2011 – Fixed missing panel.xml error due to relative path problem in openremote.sh, documented on OpenRemote forum
- 2.0.0_20110611-003 18 Nov 2011 – Fixed controller TCP port after autodiscover from panel
- 2.0.0_20110611-002 17 Nov 2011 – Updated for package repo to allow update notification, made Java 6 mandatory and added link to user forum in More Info
- 2.0.0_SNAPSHOT_20110611 25 Oct 2011 – v1 initial spk release
PC LOAD LETTER 
Excellent !!!
a very big THANKS
just installed on my Syno DS1010+, works fine, and so simple to install
thanks again for your work
Franck
I have a problem for the port configuration, I can’t change the 8080 to 18581, when I start the app, I can’t find my panels, because the controller that is discover in the settings of the app, indicates “http://192.168.1.11:8080/Controller ” but never with the good port.
When I tried to add a new controller manualy with the good port, the app indicates: “Panel List Error panel.xml not found”
If you know where I am wrong…
Thanks
Franck
Hi Franck, I finally got around to taking a look at this last night using my iPad as a panel. I think I have fixed that issue, but I had some difficulty trying to make a test button (that could just be me being unfamiliar with the software though). Use my package repository URL to install, that way you will be notified automatically of future versions.
patters, could you, maybe, do .spk for the following?
– periscope subtitle downloader
– twonky mediaserver 6.0.37 – kirkwood
Sorry, it’s a lot of work making a package. I only did it for OpenRemote because it was very similar in its needs to one I’d already made, and there was a forum post where some other guys had already worked a lot of the issues out. I don’t really have time to look at these other software titles, especially as I have no personal interest in using them.
As said on openremote forum, it works fine now with the new version
thanks a lot !
Hey Patters,
Thanks for your labor and efforts to make this world easier to live in! I installed OpenRemote on my Synology DS209 and it works just fine.
I’m going to try to create my small “Smart home”. And the first thing I want to try is temperature, pressure and humidity measure in my room. I want to use 1-wire sensors as Maxim DS1820, AAG TAI-8540 etc. First I’m concerning about is OWFS. It is said that we should have it installed and configured:
http://www.openremote.org/display/docs/OpenRemote+2.0+How+To+-+1-Wire+Sensors
But how? Do you know?
++ I also wanted to find find out if you included in your *.spk-OpenRemote package that script that start OpenRemote automatically as DS starts. Or should create that script by our-self as it described here:
http://www.openremote.org/display/docs/OpenRemote+2.0+How+To+-+Controller+on+Synology+NAS?focusedCommentId=19433213#comment-19433213
Alex.
Hi, glad it’s useful to you! I don’t really know anything about 1-wire, but there are a few posts I noticed that suggest that it might be tricky:
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=43297
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.synology-forum.de/showthread.html%3F17277-Synology-und-OWFS-%281-Wire-Filesystem%29&ei=xdPMToiZPIfJhAeV1tDhDQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDgQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dowfs%2Bsynology%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D3MW%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26prmd%3Dimvns
Oh yes, and the package will restart automatically when the Syno reboots – so no need to follow that guide.
Thank you for reply!
You know I really dig it! It so cool to use my Syno as a head of smart home in addition to other tasks.
Would you please unveil how d’you use it? So I might add some possibilities too having known that you’ve done it..
How can I add the Webconsole (Rich Web Client) to the controller?
It’s not something I’ve tried but it looks like the instructions are here:
http://openremote.org/display/docs/OpenRemote+2.0+How+To+-+Web+Console+Installation
The location of the OpenRemote package’s files once installed on the syno is /volume1/@appstore/OpenRemote
You can’t use the File Browser in DSM to browse this location though, you’ll need to use a terminal session.
EDIT – just tested it, it works fine. In keeping with the Controller, the webconsole URL would be:
http://yoursynoIP:18581/webconsole/
(assuming the .war file was renamed to webconsole.war)
I may add this to the next version of the package.
there is a new beta version (included local shell command) here (http://openremote.org/display/forums/Ability+to+execute+shell+commands+on+Windows?focusedCommentId=19434820&#comment-19434820) I tried to install it on my Syno but no Success.
Your spk was a succes is it possible to create a beta spk with the version of Marcus ?
In any cases Very good Job Excellent !!
Hi,
Is there a chance that this would run with Jamvm ?
That is available as ipkg for my ppc synology.
You seem to know alot about this stuff.
So you might be able to tell if its worth investing my time in trying to get it to run.
Sorry bout the stupid question just read your jamvm comments.
Thanks Man! Just keep in touch and follow up. This thing OpenRemote is amazing!! Now Web Console is great plus too..
Hello,
Just a quick ping on OpenRemote, there’s a new release (2.0) available at http://download.openremote.org. If you plan on updating the Synology package, you’ll want to include this release.
The Controller 2.0 also includes (embedded) the Web Console panel (currently v2.0 Alpha2 — still developer version) so no need to prepare separate packages for Web Console. It is running as an additional archive in the Tomcat runtime. Going forward the Web Console will be included in the Controller distribution.
Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help with the maintenance of these packages.
Best regards,
— Juha
Thanks Juha. I’ll put something together soon, hopefully this evening. With other packages I’ve built more recently I’ve tended to follow a model of using wget to fetch the installation files directly from the website concerned and making any edits to configs and so on by script. I’ll do that for OpenRemote, which ought to make things much easier going forward.
Ok, the package has been updated, just Refresh in Package Center and you’ll see the update badge. The modifications to the config files for port numbers are done by script now rather than by hand so new versions can be deployed much more easily. I just thought I’d feed back that the Web Console doesn’t work properly on IE Mobile on Windows Phone 7.5. On my Nokia Lumia 800 if I set IE to prefer full websites rather than mobile ones then it does seem ok, so it might be something quite simple to fix.
Thanks for reporting the issue with Mobile IE. This browser was not one which we targeted initially (in fact I was blissfully ignorant that a mobile version of IE existed) so compatibility has not been tested.
Unclear at the moment if anyone in the dev team has a device with Mobile IE to test with. This may be something we need to have community address and patch.
The issue can be tracked at http://jira.openremote.org/browse/WEBCONSOLE-45 — it is useful to leave comments if Mobile IE support is important to you.
Thank you, patters, for keeping this package up-to-date. Very useful thing.
Thanks for the excellent package, Patters!
One more question, how can I upgrade to the latest openremote version after installed with your package?
Hi, thank you for the package, working in Syno 710+ with DSM4.0.
It seems that the package use a lot of memory (maybe due to Java 6).
Is there a way to reduce it?
When shutting down the package with package center, java process remains actives.
Is there a way to overcome this?, the one I found i to log in ssh as root and kill java processes.
regards,
Christian.
Hi all,
I’ve tried to install OpenRemote on my Synology following: http://www.openremote.org/display/docs/OpenRemote+2.0+How+To+-+Controller+on+Synology+NAS
however I’ve issues booting the service. As I don’t know much about Linux can anyone help me out what’s wrong with the install? I get following feedback when trying to enable the service:
./openremote.sh run
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/OpenRemote
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/OpenRemote
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/OpenRemote/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /volume1/@appstore/java7/jre
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:11 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /usr/local/OpenRemote/webapps/controller/WEB-INF/lib/native
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:11 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8081
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:11 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 4580 ms
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:12 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:20 PM org.openremote.controller.bootstrap.Startup redirectJULtoLog4j
INFO: Initialized JUL to LOG4J Redirector.
Controller 2012-04-24 12:18:31,412 ERROR DefaultQuartzScheduler_QuartzSchedulerThread org.quartz.core.ErrorLogger.schedulerError(2166) | An error occured instantiating job to be executed. job= ‘DEFAULT.controllerXMLChangeListenJob’
org.quartz.SchedulerException: Problem instantiating class ‘org.openremote.controller.config.ControllerXMLChangeListener’ – [See nested exception: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.quartz.SchedulerException.(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Exception;)V]
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.initialize(JobRunShell.java:136)
at org.quartz.core.QuartzSchedulerThread.run(QuartzSchedulerThread.java:384)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.quartz.SchedulerException.(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Exception;)V
at org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.AdaptableJobFactory.newJob(AdaptableJobFactory.java:41)
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.initialize(JobRunShell.java:129)
… 1 more
——– Started thread for sensor 45 switch FRAME L_Data.req 0.0.0 -> 0/3/1 Data: 0x00
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:39 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8081
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:39 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 27748 ms
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer await
SEVERE: StandardServer.await: create8005:
java.net.BindException: Address already in use
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.bind(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:376)
at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:376)
at java.net.ServerSocket.(ServerSocket.java:237)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.await(StandardServer.java:373)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.await(Catalina.java:642)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:602)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:39 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol pause
INFO: Pausing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8081
Exception in thread “Thread-4” java.lang.IllegalStateException: Shutdown in progress
at java.lang.ApplicationShutdownHooks.remove(ApplicationShutdownHooks.java:82)
at java.lang.Runtime.removeShutdownHook(Runtime.java:237)
at org.openremote.controller.protocol.knx.ip.IpTunnelClient.disconnect(IpTunnelClient.java:140)
at org.openremote.controller.protocol.knx.ip.IpTunnelClient$ShutdownHook.run(IpTunnelClient.java:247)
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService stop
INFO: Stopping service Catalina
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.openremote.controller.statuscache.StatusCache).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Exception in thread “Thread-5” java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.openremote.controller.protocol.knx.ApplicationProtocolDataUnit.getProtocolDataUnit(ApplicationProtocolDataUnit.java:505)
at org.openremote.controller.protocol.knx.KNXCommand.getCEMIFrame(KNXCommand.java:500)
at org.openremote.controller.protocol.knx.KNXCommand.toString(KNXCommand.java:267)
at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2902)
at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:128)
at org.openremote.controller.protocol.knx.GroupValueRead.read(GroupValueRead.java:135)
at org.openremote.controller.component.Sensor.readStatus(Sensor.java:131)
at org.openremote.controller.statuscache.PollingMachineThread.run(PollingMachineThread.java:65)
Apr 24, 2012 12:18:42 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol destroy
INFO: Stopping Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8081
Have just installed this on DS712+ DSM 4.0-2228, all installed well, but when starting controller or web console I only get a white window…please help…
What does the Log tab of the Java Package say? Can you see the Java & HotSpot versions? If so Java is installed ok.
My own fault there, I was trying from the outside, so I had to make some rules in router…
Have one more question – I’m trying to get Samsung TV commands to work, but how do I set the IP adress – on openremote site there is an guide where you have to manualy set the IP, but ho do I find this file on Synology…
The OpenRemote files can be found in /volume1/@appstore/OpenRemote. Beyond that I’m not sure :)
If someone interested in 1-wire using on OpenRemote with your Synology NAS and doesn’t know how to install OWFS, which is requied to be installed in prior of installing OWFS?
Here is the instruction(on russian, but prety clear to follow) of how to do that:
http://www.synology-forum.ru/wiki/index.php/OWFS_1-wire_on_Synology
And here is the threat on the Russian Forum about 1-Wire & OWFS & Home Authomation(including hardware description):
http://www.synology-forum.ru/index.php?showtopic=3640
I was not able to follow the russion instructions. Can you tell me what todo to compile owfs for an atom based DS1512+.
Hey Marcus! Glade to hear from you! If you want – you could compile it. But there’s ready-to-install pre-compiled for all verity of Synology CPU.
Just follow the link from my message above. There is the list of “Ready-to-install packages”. Choose your CPU and download it. Then do this:
1) Copy the downloaded package onto your Synology DS(let’s say /volume1/temp)
2) cd /
3) tar -xvzf /volume1/temp/.tar.gz -C /
4) mkdir /mnt/1-wire
Then use the following commands to create two start-up and two kill scripts for the OWFS-services:
1) S72owfs:
Create file:
cat > S72owfs
Add the following text into this file:
#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -d /mnt/1-wire ]
then
mkdir -p /mnt/1-wire
fi
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/opt/lib
/opt/bin/owserver -uall -p 3000 &
sleep 1
/opt/bin/owfs -s 3000 /mnt/1-wire &
exit 0
Use Ctrl+D to exit editing file
2) S73owhttpd:
Create file:
cat > S73owhttpd
Add the following text into this file:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/opt/lib
PID=`ps | grep -E ‘[A-z0-9/]+/owserver($| )’ | awk ‘ { print $1 } ‘`
if [ -n “$PID” ]
then
/opt/bin/owhttpd -s 3000 -p 3001 &
fi
exit 0
Use Ctrl+D to exit editing file
3) K71owhttpd:
Create file:
cat > K71owhttpd
Add the following text into this file:
#!/bin/sh
PID=`ps | grep -E ‘[A-z0-9/]+/owhttpd($| )’ | awk ‘ { print $1 } ‘`
if [ -n “$PID” ]
then
kill -s KILL $PID
fi
exit 0
Use Ctrl+D to exit editing file
4) K72owfs
Create file:
cat > K72owfs
Add the following text into this file:
#!/bin/sh
PID=`ps | grep -E ‘[A-z0-9/]+/owserver($| )’ | awk ‘ { print $1 } ‘`
if [ -d /mnt/1-wire ]
then
umount /mnt/1-wire > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
fi
echo $PID
if [ -n “$PID” ]
then
kill -KILL $PID
fi
exit 0
Use Ctrl+D to exit editing file
Copy this scripts into /opt/etc/init.d/ and make them executable:
chmod +x /opt/etc/init.d/*ow*
That is all
Thanks for the info about owfs.
I found the download and created a packaged for my Atom based DS1512. This way all the “manual” steps are not necessary :)
I would need a version for the DS107+ Marvell Orion mv5281 ARM Processor …
tx
The first problem would be to try and get a working Java Runtime Environment. The Oracle one won’t work on that because it’s OABI not EABI I believe.
Patters,
Thanks for your great contribution. The package installed with no issues and my android shows the controller too. I am missing a key element and was hoping you could help. How can I install the X10 CM15A drivers on my synology 209? If you can provide instructions or a package it would be great help. Thanks.
And here is the discussion about 1-Wire and OpenRemote interfacing on the OpenRemote forum:
http://www.openremote.org/display/forums/1-Wire+and+OpenRemote
Hi all,
Thanks for the good job on OpenRemote. Is anybody tried to use mochad on a synology NAS ?
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/mochad/index.php?title=OpenRemote#mochad
I have an X10 installation and want to use my syno to give order on X10.
Hello I was in the same situation have you found since our topics a solution for mochad on a synology NAS ?
Hi Patters,
this is Marcus from OpenRemote and I received a Atom based DS1512+ to test and better support OpenRemore on Synology. Can you contact me via email (marcus at openremote dot org)? For the Atom based models I would like to use OpenJDK and not depend on Oracle.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Marcus,
I hope you can help with this comment I posted for Patters ” Patters, Thanks for your great contribution. The package installed with no issues and my android shows the controller too. I am missing a key element and was hoping you could help. How can I install the X10 CM15A drivers on my synology 209? If you can provide instructions or a package it would be great help. Thanks.”
Thanks.
Looks like your package repo is down ?
Works again :)
Patters, my OpenJDK.spk is ready and works fine for Atom based boxes and no other download is needed.
I was able to install your OpenRemote version without any problems afterwards.
Can you provide me with some information regarding the webservice and the JSON response needed to host a package repo?
Patters,
I still have a problem with the timezone even though I integrated the stuff you did to export TZ in /root/.profile.
DSM shows the correct time.
Console command “date” is 2 hours behind.
Log file from OpenRemote is 1 hour behind.
Any help is appreciated.
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Thanks !!! Just successfully installed on a DS411slim. http://tinyurl.com/9maosx8
I succesfully installed it in a DS209. I am only missing one key element for my home automation. Has anyone compiled a driver for an X10 CM15A USB interface?
This is exciting! It is my first go at HA, and I’m having some trouble. OpenRemote installed fine on my Synology DS212J; XBMC 11.0 (ATV2) has HTTP control enabled (and I have successfully sent commands from another app); OpenRemote app is running on iPad 2; commands have been established for XBMC control using JSON rpc. Depsite all this, the commands don’t ever make it to the XBMC from the iPad. Just wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
Having recently acquired a Synology DS213+ and planning to use Z-Wave, in a first instance for controlling my heating, I discovered your OpenRemote package for Synology.
Which would be a great solution!
Even better, the required Java package, made available by you as well, is available for the specific processor of my NAS (QorIQ PPC). Which of course is great news, since it was introduced only a few months ago.
However, after reading into the matter for several hours, I still have the following questions remaining which I hope you could help me with:
– Has Z-Wave been included in OpenRemote in general yet and if so, is it included in your package? The OpenRemote main webpage mentions it being compatible with Z-Wave and the Beta tester thread on their forum has been closed. Which all indicate it has been included in OpenRemote. But the situation does not seem 100% clear.
– Does your package contain (or will it contain) the necessary drivers for Z-Wave sticks directly plugged into the USB port of the NAS? From what I have read, the necessary drivers have to be compiled with the help of a Linux PC (which I do not have at my disposal) and some Linux knowledge (which, again, I do not have at my disposal).
The resaon for these questions is of course that in case they are answered positively, this would mean my NAS will be the only device I need (and need to keep powered 24/24) to control Z-Wave compatible devices.
It would be great if you (or another user) could enlighten me on these two questions.
Even better would be to solve them of course if needed ;-)
Thank you in advance!
Hi Hendrik, I’m afraid I don’t know much about OpenRemote at all beyond having created the package, but it’s possible another reader may answer.
Thank you for having taken the time to read and answer.
Hopefully someone else with the needed knowledge will jump in indeed…
The Z-Wave Jar for OpenRemote will be released soon. Patters package has to be updated to the latest controller which he can easily do, once we release. Just keep reading the OpenRemote forums. The beta test is closed and I mentioned on the forums that a public version will be released soon. Stay tuned .
Minor update to OpenRemote Controller is available: http://download.openremote.org/2.0.1
Controller 2.0.1 (2012-11-21)
=============================
– Update Web Console implementation to 2.0.0 FINAL
– Change Tomcat runtime default logging to file size
bound (10MB per file) instead of unlimited file
size logging
More details can be found here: http://openremote.org/display/project/2012/11/21/OpenRemote+Controller+2.0.1+Released
May be interesting enough to update the Synology package?
Thanks Juha. I have updated the package. The controller and the designer seem ok, but I didn’t seem to be able to load my sample design in the Web Console. Thing is I don’t use OpenRemote so I could be doing something wrong. Perhaps another user can comment…
I have the basic free package of 20121124 up and running on DS212+. I am busy getting the PRO version to work as well. Webconsole is functioning (also on my Android 4.0 now). I still have a problem with synchonisation of panels with the Synobox
Minor update to OpenRemote Controller is available: http://download.openremote.org/2.0.2
Controller 2.0.2 (2013-02-26)
============================
– Update Web Console implementation to 2.1.0 (Richard Turner, ORCJAVA-312)
– Bug fix: sensor status cache was throwing a runtime exception
which was not handled if a panel requested a sensor status on
a sensor which failed to start (due to configuration or
other errors). The unhandled exception caused the client
call to fail instead of gracefully falling back to default or
error value. (Eric Bariaux, ORCJAVA-268)
– Bug fix: logging generated errors (null pointer exception) at
shutdown (Eric Bariaux, ORCJAVA-222)
More details can be found here:
http://openremote.org/display/project/2013/02/26/OpenRemote+Controller+2.0.2+Released
I’m having trouble with drools…
How do I solve this on the NAS?
ERROR 2012-12-03 21:50:37,734 : Cannot start event processor ‘Drools Rule Engine’ : Unable to load dialect ‘org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialectConfiguration:java:org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialectConfiguration’
org.drools.RuntimeDroolsException: Unable to load dialect ‘org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialectConfiguration:java:org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialectConfiguration’
at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilderConfiguration.addDialect(PackageBuilderConfiguration.java:283)
at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilderConfiguration.buildDialectConfigurationMap(PackageBuilderConfiguration.java:268)
at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilderConfiguration.init(PackageBuilderConfiguration.java:181)
at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilderConfiguration.(PackageBuilderConfiguration.java:159)
at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.(PackageBuilder.java:210)
at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.(PackageBuilder.java:143)
at org.drools.builder.impl.KnowledgeBuilderFactoryServiceImpl.newKnowledgeBuilder(KnowledgeBuilderFactoryServiceImpl.java:34)
at org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder(KnowledgeBuilderFactory.java:47)
at org.openremote.controller.statuscache.rules.RuleEngine.getValidKnowledgePackages(RuleEngine.java:484)
at org.openremote.controller.statuscache.rules.RuleEngine.start(RuleEngine.java:253)
at org.openremote.controller.statuscache.EventProcessorChain.start(EventProcessorChain.java:112)
at org.openremote.controller.statuscache.StatusCache.start(StatusCache.java:120)
at org.openremote.controller.deployer.Version20ModelBuilder.buildSensorModel(Version20ModelBuilder.java:615)
at org.openremote.controller.deployer.Version20ModelBuilder.build(Version20ModelBuilder
more
Are you using Java7? The OpenRemote rules engine does not work with Java7 yet.
Oops, I am using Java 7 indeed.
I wiill try downgrading to 6 and see what it gives.
Thanks for the help, I’ll post the outcome here as soon as i have em
The best place to get an answer is the OpenRemote forum, where you already posted this. (http://www.openremote.org/display/forums/Openremote+rules?focusedCommentId=21038055#comment-21038055).
Drools is a relatively recent addition to OR. It is rather complex to understand as I learned. I never used it. Look into this thread for examples from the testsuite:http://www.openremote.org/display/forums/Rules+how+to?focusedCommentId=19437860
I downgraded to Java 6 on my synology 213+.
The file is ejre-1_6_0_34-fcs-b04-linux-ppc-e500v2-headless-19_jul_2012.tar.gz on following link:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase/index.html
Drools doesn’t give any problems anymore, my openremote controller works again.
I still need to get my “timesensor” working. The post about that is in the link helpfull Markus posted in his reply above.
Thanks Marcus! U rule!
Hello Patters, Marcus and everybody,
Package very useful, works well.
I’d liike to start working with RRD4J Graphs.
I can’t find the rrd folder with the rrd4j-config.xml in the OpenRemote app folder,should it be included in the stable version 2.0.1 ?
Great job, thanks, and merry Christmas,
—
Veance
Repost your question on the user forum at http://www.openremote.org. You have a better chance to find an expert there. Also a google search on that site may help.
Pieter
The 2.0.1 version does not include rrd4j. The 2.1-developer-snapshot from sourceforge does. You will have to download that and install over the one from Patters and eventually change some files.
I don’t know which files patters changed in his package.
Thanks Marcus for the answer, I can build a package with the developer version, it’s not my first package.
Thanks,
Veance
After updating to the latest version today (2.0.1-0007) the package stays stopped on my DS1512+ (DSM 4.1-2661). I’ve updated Serviio too (1.1.0-0016) and it is running OK. Any thoughts?
I’ll take a look. Probably something small. It’s been a bit problematic – this move to DSM 4.2 caused me to have to rebuild all my packages at once. That’s a lot of change…
Fixed now.
Hello,
I just updated Open Remote synology package. The new package, 2.0.1-0007, doesn’t star on my nas(DSM 4.1). How can I get the old one 2.0.1-0006 back?
Thank you for the fast update. 2.0.1-0008 start. But open remote still not working. And the designer part became silly(when you click on panel or device, the panel goes up and down).
Is it possible to get 0006 somewhere, until you fixe the new version?
Designer behaviour has afaik nothing to do with with the controller for which Patters has made a package. Unfortunately I can not help you with the old spk, because at the time I was unable to download it.
@Patters: I don’t know if you are aware of this: OpenRemote has registered port 8688 with the IANA organisation as default for the controller. Please consider changing the port 18581 into that new number. Makes deploying different controllers less cumbersome.
Pieter
Well, the 2.0.1-0008 works for me.
After updated the DSM, It works fine.
Hi ! I can t download openremote package for synology nas….any suggest!?!
Best Regards
Marco
Hello,
Congratulation, your package works great !
I just need to access the tomcat log file of the controller as I have issues with the telnet protocol of OR.
I would like to analyse this log file but I’m not able to find it on DSM 4.1 as everything is hidden. Do I need to implement SSH to do so ? Or is there a way to do it through the graphical interface of DSM ? And where do you stock this log file please ?
Thanks for your help.
Paqueuc
Hi, enable SSH and look in /volume1/@appstore/OpenRemote/
Yes ! Thanks very much. It worked great through Midnight Commander
You could make make the log files visible in the Synology File browser with this recipe:
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Permanent_symbolic_links
Even better than MC, thanks a lot.
Hey guys,
is it possible to use the following syno package as a driver between openremote and a Aeon Labs Z-Wave Series 2 USB bridge? :D
http://wiki.synozwave.com/index.php?title=Installation/en&setlang=en
(development is in french – english translation with link above)
Or is there another way to use the Z-Wave USB stick?
I don’t want to use X10 devices! I prefere a wireless solution.
And I don’t want a usb-to-whatever converter to use a specific bridge!
This will be so great!!! just install java, openremote and synozwave….plug in z-wave stick and have fun :D
Thanks for your answers!
Denis
This may be relevant / helpful in setting up Aeon Labs with Synology and OpenRemote Z-wave implementation : http://www.openremote.org/display/docs/OpenRemote+2.0+How+To+-+Synology+with+Z-Wave
As the world is more than SynoZwave and OpenRemote, I think a separate device driver package is more appropriate for such USB sticks.
Update to OpenRemote Controller is available: http://download.openremote.org/2.0.2
This is a minor update to the existing 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 releases which includes an updated version of Web Console control panel, and two minor bug fixes:
Controller 2.0.2 (2013-02-26)
============================
– Update Web Console implementation to 2.1.0 (Richard Turner, ORCJAVA-312)
– Bug fix: sensor status cache was throwing a runtime exception
which was not handled if a panel requested a sensor status on
a sensor which failed to start (due to configuration or
other errors). The unhandled exception caused the client
call to fail instead of gracefully falling back to default or
error value. (Eric Bariaux, ORCJAVA-268)
– Bug fix: logging generated errors (null pointer exception) at
shutdown (Eric Bariaux, ORCJAVA-222)
More details can be found here: http://openremote.org/display/project/2013/02/26/OpenRemote+Controller+2.0.2+Released
I run OpenRemote 2.0.1-0008 on a DS213+ with DSM 4.2. Thank you for the packages!. Everything works fine accept the web console. Any idea?
Works GREAT!! thx
now trying to get a lagarto server on NAS…
always running into: ‘can’t find working C++ compiler’!!
Hi, i was curious about this open remote and so i decided to try it.
To try it:
– i opened an account with Oracle
– i downloaded and installed Java on my synology nas
– i installed Open Remote on synology
– i opened an account on Open Remote Designer
– i changed port value
Now i start Open Remote Controller from my NAS, try to login and i receive “Authentication failed, please check your username and password.”
With same credential i can login in Open Remote Designer.
So i try to write a post in the forum ( http://www.openremote.org/display/forums/User+Forum ) and i found out that my credential are not allowed to write a topic….. ok
– i opened another account, but when i try, after clicked on Sign UP, i get an error page with hundred of java error lines that starts with:
“org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException: Hibernate operation: could not update: [com.atlassian.confluence.setup.bandana.ConfluenceBandanaRecord#1769477]; SQL []; Data truncation: Data too long for column ‘BANDANAVALUE’ at row 1; nested exception is com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column ‘BANDANAVALUE’ at row 1
at org.springframework.jdbc.support.SQLStateSQLExceptionTranslator.translate(SQLStateSQLExceptionTranslator.java:110)
caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column ‘BANDANAVALUE’ at row 1
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3513)”
and after the stack trace, at the bottom of the page, there are my data with my password in plain text on html page!!
Now, what else i need to do to try this Open Remote??
Thanks very much and sorry for my bad english
The openremote.org website signup issues should have been resolved now, please try again.
Hi Patters, over on openremote.org you asked about PowerPC e500v2 support. Did you ever get this? I’ve ordered a DS213+ and am hoping I can get OpenRemote to work. Thanks.
I have the same nas and openremote works on it.
Yihaaaa!
WhooHOOO! Thanks Icewitty!
Hi Patters,
Thanks for all your hard work and support. Do you have plan to upgrade this package to latest version of OpenRemote to support Mi Casa Verde Vera controller?
Thanks in advance,
Mansoor
I’ve tried to install OpenRemote on Ds1511+ DMS4.2 but i’ve problem to install java
Maybe i cannot install java se 1.7 on my ds using Intel Atom D525..
Some help ?
Thanks
Blondie
Hello Patters,
Thanks for the job.
+1 Mansoor. Do you plan to update, or at least give a tutorial to upgrade on our own the Controller please ?
For me, 2 bug fixes (probably more for others) have come since your controller version and it would help a lot to install them.
Thanks,
Paqueuc
The manual for making packages can be found on the Synology site here:
Click to access Synology_DiskStation_Manager_3rd_Party_Apps_Developer_Guide.pdf
As you can see there it is not simple
Sure it is not easy. I was just talking about an update. As Marcus said on décember 27th above, the need is just to know which files changed due to the specific syno packages and Then be able (if possible) to make our own updates from OR official releases.
If not possible, debate is unfortunately over.
Updating OR files should usually be fairly simple file replacement operation, as long as you know where the files are on your Synology filesystem.
I don’t have access to a Synology to give precise instructions but if there are any specific questions about OR files and what to update we can help there if anyone is attempting to upgrade their install.
I’ll update the package very soon. Juha – is there a way for my package script to programmatically read the latest version published? For my Bliss package, the author puts the latest version number in a text file on the web server. Also, how would I determine the currently running version number once installed? Is it in a config file somewhere? I could make the package always look for the latest version as it installs…
Hello Patters,
(Having some issues with the reply buttons not always showing up so replying to my original post)
I’m trying to establish a pattern on the download URL redirects to find latest versions. So for example currently for the 2.0.x series there are download URLs such as:
http://download.openremote.org/2.0
http://download.openremote.org/2.0.1
http://download.openremote.org/2.0.2
Where the first one http://download.openremote.org/2.0 gives the latest version in the 2.0.x branch (so currently OR controller 2.0.2) and the latter two give specific versions for anyone who wants to specifically download 2.0.1 version or 2.0.2 version.
(For the record, I don’t currently anticipate a Controller 2.0.3 version to appear unless there’s critical demand for it. But never say never.)
Currently, the development release (not stable) for the next version is available at:
http://download.openremote.org/2.1-DeveloperRelease
This will eventually appear in “stable” URLs:
http://download.openremote.org/2.1
http://download.openremote.org/2.1.1
http://download.openremote.org/2.1.2
(Note: these latter URLs don’t exist yet). As with the 2.0, the latest 2.1 branch release from the first URL (whatever is the latest version at the time) and the specific versions with the full bug fix version number included.
Now I don’t know how far automated your Synology package scripts are, and how you feel about having packages for each version branch? From the experience, as things mature, some people are interested only in the stable branches, or a particular bug fix release in their stable branch (say 2.0.3 bug fix update even if 2.1.0 would already be available). Further there are people who are interested in the latest development branches (currently 2.1). And even further down the road, an update that is not going to be backwards compatible is going to be designated a new main version number, so 3.x or 4.x and so on.
I’ll leave it up to you to decide which packages to create, as it is work for you. I’ll hope to be able to keep the URL scheme described above to find latest or specific versions. I think different users will look for different major branches so multiple packages or versioning with packages may be relevant. Also if necessary to create URL locations to satisfy Synology package requirements (specific Synology versioning) I can set up that too, the URL redirects are relatively simple to set up.
PS. the URL process above is not automated on our side so feel free to ping me if it seems we’ve forgotten to update things.
Hope this helps.
Juha Lindfors
http://www.openremote.com
So that’s the pattern I’m hoping to establish
We don’t currently include a VERSION file but that’s a good idea, and I’ll look into adding that one to future releases.
Thanks,
— Juha
FYI The PRO version zip sofar has always been named OpenRemote_Conroller.zip. The latest version there is v1.0.9
There are actually two basic packages the free version (is the one that you presently distribute), and the Professional version. The pro version afaik can only be dowloaded when you are logged in as a registered professional user.
It is not my intention to complicate things here by asking to include the Pro version as well but for some help with a work around for the existing package
With a small adaptation of your package, I have tried to place the Pro controller ZIP in the Public folder and install from there. I got it expanded in a temporary file, but it apparantly did not get moved to the correct place.
1) Do you allow me to use your package for this purpose?
2) Would you be willing to give me a little advice.
My objective with your permission would be to make a description of the work around on the OpenRemote pages. Off course with appropriate disclaimers.
I fully respect if you don’t want me to go this way.
Pieter
I think it may be better if I make the package optionally scoop the Pro install zip file from the public share.
The Pro version cannot be publically distributed.
Yes I know. That’s why I’m proposing that the user who has bought it downloads it to the public folder on their own NAS first, then installs my package. If the package script finds the pro zip file, it could install that, if not then it would install the normal version.
Installing the Pro version from the public share directory on the Synology seems a very good idea. I am happy to test it for you on my DS212+
@Marcus the public share directory refers to /volume1/public on the Synology NAS, maybe different on newer types. Afaik it is not a standard directory in the Synology distribution. Many installers use it however.
Pieter
Hi ,
I’m still using DSM3.2 and after adding your repo as a source of packages , it doesn’t list OpenRemove as an available package . I would like to avoid to upgrade to 4.X because of custom programs i’ve compiled on my nas .
Is it possible to get a direct access to the .spk ? for a manual install ?
Cheers ,
John
All my packages allow installation on DSM3.2. What model is your NAS? I would guess it’s got an unsupported CPU.
DS411+ II , yeah i thing it’s an intel atom dual core 1.8Ghz , especially with your package saying , CPU arch: noarch , so that shouldn’t matter .
After adding the repo i can see other packages , minecraft , and the crashplans one . But not OpenRemote :/
more precisely the cpu is a : Intel Atom D525 Dualcore (2C/4T) 1.8GHz x86 Processor .
So definitely not supported ? only the Marvell Kirkwood cpus are ?
Hi Patters,
Your package installed perfectly on my Synology DS412+, however the controller version it is
not the latest release, and is therefor causing some of my functions to fail.
Are you planing on updating the packaged with the newest version, or is there a way for me to do this my self?
I know where the find the OR files via Terminal and SSH, however I do not know the commands to replace them with the “new” files.
Regards
I installed Java (1.7.0_40-b43) and OpenRemote. This address http://diskstation:18581/webconsole seems to work. However when I launch Web Console, Designer or Controller from within DSM I get empty, white windows. Any ideas?