Genie Apps on new readynas 104 not installing?

The addon installer format (SDK) has changed with the new OS, the older versions are not compatible.

The Genie staff visit here every few days, you may want to call tech support for quicker response.

Beware ye the promise of fool's gold and Genie apps...... There might be some, but IMHO Netgear have just jumped on the "app" bandwagon. I've been very disappointed.... (NV+ v2)

OK I was able to fix this. It turns out that when you click 'buy' it is far from the one click experience Netgear promises it to be. Where the box opens and says it is installing, what is supposed to happen it it launches the genie apps web site. So where it hangs saying it is installing, it isn't supposed to install anything at all. They could have got around this by just including a 'click here if you are not redirected' link as all its supped to do is launch a browser. poor.

You are then supposed to manually buy the app from the website and select for it to install the apps to your nas device.

The red herring was that the apps for the new range is listed as their own duplicate app entries, right at the last page of the buggy, slow, horribly designed website. So you have to click next page, wait 5 minutes, repeat 5 times to get to the end of the list and find the small selection of apps available. Then you can purchase and install one.

It is also worth noting that there is a lot of apps (as listed in the apps section here http://netgear.com/landing/storage/home.html#4 ) which are simply not available despite it saying so in the marketing for this device. For example: Transmission. Simply not available for the 104. Even if I could get a compatible package from the developer, it seems Netgear have removed the ability to install app packages manually, instead forcing you to buy from their marketplace which is a buggly, slow, horrible purchasing experience.

Netgear really dropped the ball making such a big deal about the apps but putting almost 0 effort into it.

random, how are you with SSH? If you run the command below, does it load up?

# apt-get update; apt-get install transmissionr6; touch /apps/transmissionr6/.localapp

http://www.readynas.com/packages/readynasos/dists/6.0.4/apps/binary-armel/Packages.gz wrote:

Package: transmission Priority: extra Section: checkinstall Installed-Size: 3316 Maintainer: Poussin Architecture: armel Version: 2.77-1 Provides: transmission Filename: dists/6.0.4/apps/pool/transmission/transmission_2.77-1_armel.deb Size: 1473192 MD5sum: b80dc5170293e4a71fda0ae335839e1d Description: Transmission P2P Client Package: transmissionr6 Priority: extra Section: contrib Installed-Size: 89 Maintainer: poussin <readynas@orange.fr> Architecture: all Version: 2.77.1 Depends: libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0), transmission (>= 2.77) Filename: dists/6.0.4/apps/pool/transmission/transmissionr6_2.77.1_all.deb Size: 45882 MD5sum: 739b64ffe9c6cec5f8baadc56a555550 Description: Transmission P2P Client Homepage: http://www.readynas.com

Hmm, it appears to have installed:

Get:1 http://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos/ 6.0.4/apps transmission armel 2.77-1 [1,473 kB] Get:2 http://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos/ 6.0.4/apps transmissionr6 all 2.77.1 [45.9 kB] Fetched 1,519 kB in 2s (596 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously unselected package transmission. (Reading database ... 18731 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking transmission (from .../transmission_2.77-1_armel.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package transmissionr6. Unpacking transmissionr6 (from .../transmissionr6_2.77.1_all.deb) ... Setting up transmission (2.77-1) ... Setting up transmissionr6 (2.77.1) ...

And it says in the log app successfully installed. However, it doesn't show in the Installed Apps section and I can't access it via port 8181 as you usually can. How do I remove what has been installed?

Try downloading this file to your PC: http://apt.readynas.com/packages/readyn ... .1_all.deb

Then upload it in Dashboard via System>Settings>Install Firmware. Does it show up in GUI then?

edit: much simpler, after the apt-get, do this, and the app will show up in GUI:

# touch /apps/transmissionr6/.localapp

Thanks! Getting closer. That package installs and shows up under apps. I can get a response on port 8181, and can get a login prompt. Just trying to find the credentials now, the usual admin/password or admin/password1 from previous releases doesn't work.

Thanks for your help!

Try admin/admin

The interface of the genie website leaves a lot to be desired. 1995 called, it wants its html back?
https://genie.netgear.com/UserProfile/# ... :service52
The AJAX code on there is very slow, hard to direct link to pages, no search/sort functionality, yuck.

Thanks chirpa, all is now working perfectly. All this hassle just to install an app! Was so much easier on my duo v1. Netgear really need to sort this out, their genie website is horrible.

I'll make a donation later for Transmission.

Updated my post above, don't need to manually upload the .deb file, just 'touch' a file.