Hi all,
I have CumulusMX running on my Windows 10 Notebook PC communicating successfully with a Watson 8681 (Fine Offset) Weather Station.
I would like to leave it running permanently but can't leave my notebook on all the time. I do have a home network with a Synology DS215J diskstation running 16 hours per day, 365 days/year. If I could run CumulusMX on the NAS (which has a USB port) I could leave it permanently connected and access it from anywhere in the world.
Has anyone any experience of running Cumulus on an NAS. I have only run the packages that come with the Synology NAS to date and have no idea if it would work, or for that matter if it did work, how to get it installed. The diskstation runs a version of Linux and so it should be capable of running CumulusMX.
Anyway, I put it out there for forum members to consider and advise if possible. I am willing to give it a go but need some pointers rather than to go in blindly. I ran Linux Mint on my previous PC for three years so I do have some knowledge of Linux systems.
Regards, Phil
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CumulusMX on a Synology NAS
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Re: CumulusMX on a Synology NAS
If you can upgrade and add packages then I would say yes. To run Cumulus you need to install the mono-complete package.
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Re: CumulusMX on a Synology NAS
If you search the forum I'm sure that someone else was running on a Synology NAS
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Re: CumulusMX on a Synology NAS
Thanks Mark,
Yes, there are posts regarding trying to run it on a Synology NAS but none have succeded so far. I have checked and a beta package of Mono is available on the NAS . I think I may have to leave it for others on this forum whom I think know more about what they are doing than I do. I may try to see if I can get it to run in a Virtual Drive on the NAS.
Thanks again for your responses.
Phil
Yes, there are posts regarding trying to run it on a Synology NAS but none have succeded so far. I have checked and a beta package of Mono is available on the NAS . I think I may have to leave it for others on this forum whom I think know more about what they are doing than I do. I may try to see if I can get it to run in a Virtual Drive on the NAS.
Thanks again for your responses.
Phil
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Re: CumulusMX on a Synology NAS
I found this page on Synology, looks like there is Mono support on some of their platforms, but I haven't dug any further.
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Re: CumulusMX on a Synology NAS
You might be better off running a vm on the NAS and using Ubuntu or something. I have found that some things just don't run right on their version of linux.