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Addons on R6
Hello
Because it was disclosed most of you can installl addons without going on Genie, perhaps because you have R6 on old X86 Nases or for some other reasons.
Please Guys, Note that Whocares and me spend a lot of time working on those addons to make them work correctly on the new R6 firmware (New SDK, new problem, new desing ...) so it was for us a long run, not always easy. So if you like our addons please think on a donation.
Hope you will like all the new addons we have made.
I don't know on my side what will be Genie in the future, if everyone will use and like R6, but it's clear if genie is not used and the trick to bypass genie is used by everyone without return, I will think on finding a new way to provide addons. Please note, that I'm not a big fan of Genie, but that's the way Netgear ask us to provide addons. Please also note, so it will be clear that the price you see in Genie, it not the amount of money I will have in my pocket, Netgear take a part of it.
I never have done addons for money, but it's more and more time consuming , I consider donation as a "Thank you, continue your work" message. (Addons are done on free time)
Enjoy the addons, Enjoy the readynas
Poussin :arrow:
Because it was disclosed most of you can installl addons without going on Genie, perhaps because you have R6 on old X86 Nases or for some other reasons.
Please Guys, Note that Whocares and me spend a lot of time working on those addons to make them work correctly on the new R6 firmware (New SDK, new problem, new desing ...) so it was for us a long run, not always easy. So if you like our addons please think on a donation.
Hope you will like all the new addons we have made.
I don't know on my side what will be Genie in the future, if everyone will use and like R6, but it's clear if genie is not used and the trick to bypass genie is used by everyone without return, I will think on finding a new way to provide addons. Please note, that I'm not a big fan of Genie, but that's the way Netgear ask us to provide addons. Please also note, so it will be clear that the price you see in Genie, it not the amount of money I will have in my pocket, Netgear take a part of it.
I never have done addons for money, but it's more and more time consuming , I consider donation as a "Thank you, continue your work" message. (Addons are done on free time)
Enjoy the addons, Enjoy the readynas
Poussin :arrow:
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- Hi,
I actually don't mind paying for apps, and had paid for several already (transmission on my old nas, sabnzbd/couchpotato/etc on new r6).
I tried looking for transmission to pay for in Genie but they make it incredibly difficult. For example, when I go to the Apps section in R6, it does not list Transmission at all. Despite there actually being an avialable package for it.
Secondly, their website is awful. You have to traverse a very slow, buggy website to get to the very last page which lists r6 apps and even then it did not show Transmission as available.
I'm glad the 'loophole' exists because it enabled me to install an app I used heavily on my previous device, and of course will make a donation later today because I have no problems paying for an app I use so much. You are being let down quite badly by Netgear and their shoddy genie service though. They need to actually put some effort into it and make it actually usable.
Thanks for all your efforts with the apps though. It is appreciated, and your work make the devices so much more than simple NAS. - In these strange times, unfortunately, nothing is free.
That's why I do not mind if I have to pay or contribute a small sum, because this job requires a lot of time, knowledge, etc..
Luckily, users who have the knowledge, they also share it with us.
Thanks again to all of you, without you, this forum probably would not exist today. - Thank you Interested. Agree with you
I will add to my 1st post :
Nobody is forced to pay, the only goal of this post is to explain that doing an addon is not so simple and it require time and knowledge.
So like before people can use all the addons for free if they use the backdoor, I will as long as I have time and pleasure to do addons. If they like an addon a donation is welcome but not mandatory.
If I was doing addon to be rich or have a lot of money, I should have stop since a long time :P - +1!
- Maybe readynas/NTGR/genie can read this thread and help users and developers.
Thank you to super-poussin for his continued efforts. - I'd love to pay for some of your apps poussin, but genie is such a JOKE! Such a crappy website from the buggy 80's that I don't even have access to it ! all I get is NO DEVICES FOUND.
randomnut wrote: Hi,
I actually don't mind paying for apps, and had paid for several already (transmission on my old nas, sabnzbd/couchpotato/etc on new r6).
I tried looking for transmission to pay for in Genie but they make it incredibly difficult. For example, when I go to the Apps section in R6, it does not list Transmission at all. Despite there actually being an avialable package for it.
Secondly, their website is awful. You have to traverse a very slow, buggy website to get to the very last page which lists r6 apps and even then it did not show Transmission as available.
I'm glad the 'loophole' exists because it enabled me to install an app I used heavily on my previous device, and of course will make a donation later today because I have no problems paying for an app I use so much. You are being let down quite badly by Netgear and their shoddy genie service though. They need to actually put some effort into it and make it actually usable.
Thanks for all your efforts with the apps though. It is appreciated, and your work make the devices so much more than simple NAS.
TOTALLY AGREE with you !
Genie is a joke!- I agree, Genie is not ready for prime time. I have a 314 freshly configured with two new drives. The only add-on I bought for it through genie is Transmission. It installed and ran, then dissapeared. Next day, installed again, ran, and now it is gone again. Very dissapointed I paid Netgear to mangle super-poussin's add on. Less than useful to have a P2P app that cannot run for more than a few hours without uninstalling itself.
ahpsi wrote: I agree, Genie is not ready for prime time. I have a 314 freshly configured with two new drives. The only add-on I bought for it through genie is Transmission. It installed and ran, then dissapeared. Next day, installed again, ran, and now it is gone again. Very dissapointed I paid Netgear to mangle super-poussin's add on. Less than useful to have a P2P app that cannot run for more than a few hours without uninstalling itself.
If you have problem with the addon provide me access to you nas (PM Me) and I will try to solve your issue. Yes Genie is not easy to use. It's for the moment the only way we have to "distribute addons" , addons are tested and validated by Netgear and they take their fee on the price you paid- Transmission supports RN213/314/316/516 for now. Cloud you please tell me which f/w version and nas model you used?
And the correct process is like this:
1. Connect your nas and computer to a single router.
2. Go to NAS admin page, enable geine in System->Settings->Services. This will take a while like 5 to 10 minutes for geine initialization.
3. After that you can see your box listed in "My devices" in https://genie.netgear.com/UserProfile/# ... boardPlace: as "Not Activated".
4. Activate your box. You can both activate your box by clicking the "Activate" button in step 3's webpage. Or you can just login the genie market place in NAS admin page Apps->genie Marketplace login.
Then you can see all apps which match with your box model listed in Available page(NAS admin page). And you can see all apps we have now in genie website.
randomnut wrote: Hi,
I actually don't mind paying for apps, and had paid for several already (transmission on my old nas, sabnzbd/couchpotato/etc on new r6).
I tried looking for transmission to pay for in Genie but they make it incredibly difficult. For example, when I go to the Apps section in R6, it does not list Transmission at all. Despite there actually being an avialable package for it.
Secondly, their website is awful. You have to traverse a very slow, buggy website to get to the very last page which lists r6 apps and even then it did not show Transmission as available.
I'm glad the 'loophole' exists because it enabled me to install an app I used heavily on my previous device, and of course will make a donation later today because I have no problems paying for an app I use so much. You are being let down quite badly by Netgear and their shoddy genie service though. They need to actually put some effort into it and make it actually usable.
Thanks for all your efforts with the apps though. It is appreciated, and your work make the devices so much more than simple NAS.
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