Syncthing

sno0k · Jun 2nd 2015

First of all thanks for the plugin.
Are there plans for a syncthing plugin for arm architecture? So I can install and configure syncthing over the omv webui on my pi2.

ryecoaaron · Jun 2nd 2015

The plugin will work fine on arm systems. I was waiting for syncthing to put armhf and armel packages in their repo. Will have to check on that...

ryecoaaron · Jun 2nd 2015

They have arm packages setup correctly now. So, update to the latest omv-extras (1.28) and you should be able to install from the web interface.

sno0k · Jun 2nd 2015

Tried to install the plugin on my pi but I've got the following message inside the installation window:

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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openmediavault-syncthing : Depends: syncthing but is not installable
E
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Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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ryecoaaron · Jun 2nd 2015

Did you enable the btsync repo? Are you updated on OMV (ie running 1.18 or newer)?

sno0k · Jun 2nd 2015

Checked both points: OMV runs with version 1.19 and btsync is enabled. But I havn't updated the other packages beside OMV and plugins. After I updated them the installation of syncthing finished without any problems or error messages.
Thanks for the fast response!

topi · Jun 3rd 2015

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The syncthing devs have fixed the signing issue

Thanks ryecoaaron for the fast response. The update of syncthing worked now flawless

oxidizer · Jun 3rd 2015

@sno0k: how is your Performance on your arm device? on my cubietruck the performance is very bad. (~8Mbit / 1MB/s)

sno0k · Jun 3rd 2015

As bad as your performance. The transfer speed inside my local network is approx. 1MB/s or sometimes even less. Tested it over night and was disappointed about the sync progress.

oxidizer · Jun 3rd 2015

Yes, me too. I removed syncthing now. May be I shoud got with rsync.

mmq · Jun 24th 2015

For some reason the syncthing client on OMV does not update.
On the other clients syncthing updates automatically, but this option is not available on OMV. I also checked for updates in plugins and the update manager. Currently openmediavault-syncthing 1.4 and syncthing v0.11.6 is installed.
The update may also result in higher transfer speeds, as a bug was fixed with v0.11.7, as mentioned in the release notes.

ryecoaaron · Jun 24th 2015

The plugin uses Syncthing's repo. So, whatever version is in there is what we get. They disabled the automatic update. It is meant to be updated the debian way when using that package.

That said, my system is showing 0.11.10 as available for download. Maybe this is affecting your updates??

topi · Jun 24th 2015

Hi there,
when I updated syncthing, I always have to manually restart syncthing in the Web GUI to adopt the new update. This behaviour is shown either when I make the update via CLI or when I do it via update manager. However, I would expect that the update triggers automatically the adoption of the new syncthing version in OMV, but perhaps I am wrong with this?

ryecoaaron · Jun 25th 2015

Since this is updating the syncthing package and not the plugin, the plugin doesn't know that it is being updated. The best I could do is add a button to restart syncthing.

topi · Jun 25th 2015

Thanks ryecoaaron for the clarification and your suggestion towards a restart button. Alternatively, only a message could be displayed like "Please restart syncthing to adopt the recent update" if that would be easier to implement.

ryecoaaron · Jun 25th 2015

Version 1.6 in repo now. It has a restart button in the admin tab but there really isn't a good place to put the note.

mmq · Jun 26th 2015

Thanks ryecoaaron, I had the mentioned issue with the update. Now the new version is installed.

topi · Jun 26th 2015

Thanks ryecoaaron for the lightspeed release of version 1.6

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Version 1.6 in repo now. It has a restart button in the admin tab but there really isn't a good place to put the note.

I fully agree with you on the missing place for the note. Perhaps it would make some sense for beginner users (see nmq`s posting above) to name the "restart" button to "restart syncthing" button in a future release of the syncthing plugin.

tekkb · Jun 26th 2015

Are you getting decent performance from this???

ryecoaaron · Jun 26th 2015

I am just testing across my lan and it is working fast (lots of small files) = 11 MiB/s.

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