Metehub on other platforms like QNAP and Synology?

[kalgreen]

Hi!

Are there any plans to port MeteoHub to other platforms like the QNAP and Synology NAS platforms? These platforms are really taking of now as "Home grade" NAS boxes.

My reason for asking is that I'm swapping my "Home Server" (Windows Server running Weather Display along with file, web and mail services) for a small footprint, low noise and low power QNAP TS-409Pro - and this box is surely capable of running the MeteoHub application along with the other applications like Joomla, TwonkyMedia etc. I would hate bringing in another box (NSLU2 or its successor) just to run a single application that could be humming along on the NAS box that's already in place.

The latest firmware on the QNAP includes the concept of application packages installable from the GUI, so a MeteoHub package would be greatly appreciated... ;-)

Thanks

-- Klaus

[admin]

AT the moment there are no plans on this. Neither QNAP porting nor providing Meteohub as an installable package.

[stuartturrell]

I would very much like to be able to run meteohub on my QNAP system as well.
If ANY solution comes out, you will be sure for a purchase from me.
Many thanks,
Stuart

[GosZk]

Can anybody tell us what the progress is?

[admin]

no plans at the moment.

[GosZk]

Thank you for your fast reply :)
Unfortunately it is not the answer i hoped for :)

[Svennos]

I'm considering to install debian lenny on my QNAP TS-109 pro II:

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/

I think I can install meteohub designed for the sheeva plug afterwards :)

note that when debian is installed all original firmware will be replaced, so there is no fancy web administration console. You can install software to do so using apt get, but risk also hours of fiddeling out (unless you are a linux expert).

so there is a way to run meteohub on a nas, but it would be nicer to have a qpkg :laugh:

[Svennos]

on second thought, I've read that meteohub will completely take over the system, so you won't be able to use the NAS as a NAS (or a complete home server when debian is installed). This is not feasible, so not such a good idea after all. :(

[admin]

if the Meteohub approach of being an isolated appliance does match your needs depends on your needs. Target customer base are users that want a ready to go system with low power usage. Meteohub tries to provide that.

That the linux expert might be not so happy and would prefer more of a package like application that can be installed by apt-get etc on top of his personally adjusted linux distribution of the day is the natural drawback on this. To have a preconfigured Linux system in a nutshell that can completely be managed (ip settings, etc) by a web interface with never touching telnet/ssh/vi or any config files does come with a price of reduced compatibility to standard linux distros.

May be that all could be done smarter, but for the moment that is the way it is. So you are suffering from a basic design decision, which I at least wanted to explain.

There might be a solution with a much smaller foot print that comes along as an installable package in the second quarter... but it is too early to count on that.

[netsigi]

You do not want that, really;-)

I own QNAP myself. It is not a bad product. But the main target is to serve data and save data. Meteohub is not like a ipkg that you add and have a new service. In Meteohub is much more involved that has some crossings with active ports from QNAP. As I understand NLSU is a NAS too, but with meteohub, you change the whole system from NAS to meteohub. And if You run ALIX or Sheeva, it is a whole system, not a extension, or a program ,like Twonky or so.

If I was Boris, I would concentrate my forces to other subjects than experiment with every available hardware.

sorry for that ;-)
NetSigi


wow, sorry for warming up old stuff, I've read only the last posts. Nearly everything was said before ;-)