Synology NAS Installation procedure

Introduction

First for all, you should use the git version of eyefiserver2. The packages of the download page are not really up to date.

The following gives details about the deployment of eyefiserver2 on a Synology NAS that runs DSM > 4.1.

Details

Needed packages and services

• Enable ssh, in order to be able to deploy the script (Go to the "Terminal" icon in the configuration pannel)
• In the package center, install the Python package (currently it provides python > 2.7.1)

Deploying eyefiserver2

You should be able to connect to your DSM as root. In the following we suppose that:

• PC is your desktop

• DSM is your synology NAS

• Deploy the script eyefiserver.py and put it in /usr/local/bin

    PC> scp eyefiserver.py root@DSM:/usr/local/bin
    DSM> cd /usr/local/bin
    DSM> chmod uog+x eyefiserver.py
  

• Deploy the configuration file:

    PC> scp eyefiserver.conf root@DSM:/etc
  

Testing

It is time to test the service, running:

DSM> /usr/local/bin/eyefiserver.py start /etc/eyefiserver.conf /var/log/eyefiserver.log

If the transfer is working, it's time to enable it as a service !

Service

At http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=58193 the author shows how to monitor the process to kill it when stopping it. Nevertheless, the current version of eyefiserver.py already implements a starting and stopping procedure. Thus, a more simple script works fine:

#!/bin/sh

eyefiserver=/usr/local/bin/eyefiserver.py 
case $1 in
   start)
      echo "Starting EyeFi server..."
      python $eyefiserver start /etc/eyefiserver.conf /var/log/eyefiserver.log
   ;;

   stop)
      echo "Stopping EyeFi server..."
      python $eyefiserver stop /etc/eyefiserver.conf /var/log/eyefiserver.log
   ;;

   restart)
      $0 stop
      sleep 1
      $0 start
   ;;
esac

• Deploy it on the Synology NAS:

    PC> scp S99EyeFiServer.sh root@DSM:/usr/local/etc/rc.d
    DSM> cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
    chmod uog+x S99EyeFiServer.sh
  

Then stopping/starting should work:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/S99EyeFiServer.sh stop
Stopping EyeFi server...

(sometimes the stopping procedure does not finish, which is not so much problematic because the system will probably kill the procedure when the user halts the NAS)

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/S99EyeFiServer.sh start
Starting EyeFi server...
EyeFiServer started

Disable SSH

• Disable SSH (security !), as it is not required anymore...