how to create an add-on for readynas?

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I couldn't find a guide on how to create addons for readynas on the internet.

maybe there are instructions and tips?

it seems Readynas is a dead product but since i am still using it, i want this app to be an addon.

Sandshark · Answer

Because the ReadyNAS has such a small OS partition, you have to be careful installing ones that aren't specifically compiled for it.&nbsp; Apps should go in /apps, which is on the data drive (with a link to it on the OS partition, if needed).&nbsp; It's especially important if the app has a log that can get long or creates working files that might get lengthy and/or not get deleted properly.&nbsp; With some, that's as easy as making an appropriate directory in /apps and putting links in the OS partition.&nbsp; But if an app uses a standard directory that you can't relocate because the OS itself uses it, then you'll have to re-compile, changing that directory to something that can be in /apps.&nbsp; Misbehaving apps are the prime cause for users' OS partitions filling up, which can result in some significant issues if not caught and corrected fast enough.&nbsp;But even if an already compiled app isn't a problem, there are no simple instructions available on how to convert it to a ReadyNAS-specific app that puts the files and directories in /apps and necessary links in the OS partition.&nbsp; I created new sources.list and apt.conf files to get around the issue that Debian 8 has been archived, but I can't figure out how to make a simple app that installs them in /etc/apt.&nbsp; And those aren't even executable.&nbsp; And I do program tools for my own use in Windows, so it's not like I don't have any background for it, I just don't have Linux experience.

StephenB · Answer

See this:

https://apps.readynas.com/pages/?page_id=299&nbsp;

Sandshark · Answer

Everything is written for someone who already has a lot of experience as a Linux programmer, so I hope that's you. I have asked many times for a "ReadyNAS app development for dummies" for simple re-compile of a standard Linux package to a ReadyNAS-specific one, and got nothing.

A applaud anyone who is willing to try, though. Netgear has chased away the last of the developers, though there were never very many.

SauvageSausage · Answer

&gt; CAPTCHA was not valid.&nbsp;the form doesn't like me. tried several times, the answer is always the same no matter how i clicked the captcha tick lol&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;See this:&nbsp;https://apps.readynas.com/pages/?page_id=299&nbsp;&nbsp;but anyway, the goal was not to publish the addon in the gallery, so i don't need a dev account? i just need a working addon, so if you have manuals, SDKs and alike, please share it one way or another.

SauvageSausage · Answer

&gt; I have asked many times for a "ReadyNAS app development for dummies" for simple re-compile of a standard Linux package to a ReadyNAS-specific one, and got nothing&nbsp;luckily no need to recompile anything, as there are compiled x86_64 binaries which work fine on readynas, if executed directly via ssh. all i have to do is to write a couple of adapters to make everything work together (probably in golang? not sure for now)

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