IPKG ON WD MY CLOUD / MIRROR INSTALL
Note: it maybe a lot to read but it is worth it in the end ;)
What is IPKG?
IPKG also known as Optware is a lightweight package management system designed for embedded devices that resembles Debian's dpkg.
First thing first here is what you will need:
- A USB stick i recommend a 8GB but if you have something around 2GB and above you should be fine
- An active internet connection
- Virtual Machine (Virtual Box)
- GParted
- SSH Client (Putty if using Windows. Mac use Terminal same for linux users)
- Time
Note: i am doing this on a Macintosh but the setup / preparation is the same
USB Preparation:
In order to run IPKG we need to format our usb to a "linux" partition via ext3
To do this we will need to get and run GParted to make the partitions
Download Virtual Box for what ever system you have at: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and install it.
Download GParted Live CD/USB/HD/PXE Bootable Image .iso file from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
Plug-in your USB and at this time Virtual Box should be installed and GParted should be done downloading.
Open Virtual Box and make a new VM by clicking NEW
Make the Type Linux, Version other 64bit and Name it whatever you want
Give it 1GB ram (1024MB), HDD 8GB create now with type VDI allocated, name the HDD whatever you want it should bring up the name you put in the first place in my case i called it "GParted"
Now your VM setup is almost complete, right click on the VM you just made and go to Settings and click on the Storage. Then click on the Empty disk and click on Live CD / DVD. From there next to IDE Secondary click the disk icon and click on Choose a virtial CD/DVD disk file and when the window opens go to the location where the .iso is contained with GParted and hit okay
Now start the VM and choose the first option
Once GParted loads, select your language. Sit back and wait for it to load.
Hit enter on:
Type 33 and press enter
Then enter 0 and preas enter for it to start up
Your USB should be plugged in, on the menu outside the VM click Devices then USB Devices and choose your usb drive that you are going to format
Once in GParted, connect the drive you wish to Format and Partition.
Click GParted and refresh devices or CTRL + R and on the far right where you see /dev/ click that and choose the last one should be /dev/sdb
Right-Click the drive icon and select "Unmount."
Now you will need to prepare the usb drive and format/partition it. The following images illustrate the procedure (provided by DDWRT)
NOTE: JFFS IS NOT IMPORTANT ONLY DATA, OPTWARE AND SWAP ARE SO SKIP MAKING A JFFS PARTITION
Click Device and select Create Partition Table
Right click the "Unallocated Space and select New. Continue this procedure for each Partition you create
The partition size value for the following Data partition should be left alone, as this is the remaining space on the disk:
You're finished! Now all that's left to do is plug the usb drive into your WD My Cloud / Mirror NAS.
SSH into your WD My Cloud / Mirror since i am using a Mac
Type in ssh [email protected] then your password you setup when enabling SSH in the WD Dashboard
If you haven't enabled SSH and configured it, go to your WD Dashboard, login and go to settings, click the network tab, scroll down to SSH and turn it on From there you should see a configure link next to it, click it and type in a password you want
Now to install OPTWARE with a script i wrote for WD My Cloud / Mirror Users
type
cd /tmp
and run command
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BarakaAka1Only/OptWDMyCloud/master/My%20Cloud%20Mirror/Optware/optware-install.sh --no-check-certificate
Make permissions
type
chmod 0777 optware-install.sh
Now we have to mount and bind our usb to /opt
type in
mount
hit enter and you should see all the mounted drives since this we are focused on our usb we will mount /opt on
/dev/sdc1 on /mnt/USB/USB2_c1 type ext3 (rw)
type in
mount -o bind /mnt/USB/USB2_c1 /opt
then run
./optware-install.sh
if you type in ipkg you will notice that it is not found we have to export the bin paths from /opt with this command
export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
now type ipkg and you should see all the commands
To install and run PlexPy
Update ipkg with command
ipkg update
We need to install a few things git,which,python27
run command
ipkg install git which python27
from this point it will install all the dependencies needed for what we are installing
cd into /opt with
cd /opt
and run
git clone https://github.com/drzoidberg33/plexpy.git
now to run PlexPy
Type
cd plexpy
and since we installed python2.7 we have to run the script to its binary path to the path of the script like so
/opt/bin/python2.7 /opt/plexpy/PlexPy.py
if you get the following error "Failed to start on port: 8181. Is something else running?" you will have to edit two files init.py and config.py to change the port
to do this type in
cd /opt/plexpy/plexpy
then
vi __init__.py
with your arrow keys, go down to line "96/721 13%" you will see CONFIG.HTTP_PORT = 8181
on your keyboard press "i" this will put it in "edit mode" now remove 8181 and type what ever four numbers you want like so
press esc on your keyboard to exit out of "edit mode" and press shift + : and type w (this will write to the file)
then press shift + : and type q and hit enter to exit
now do the same for the config.py file
vi config.py
with your arrow keys, go down to line "118/450 26%" you will see 'HTTP_PORT': (init, 'General', 8181),
change the 8181 to the same port you used in the init.py like so
press esc on your keyboard to exit out of "edit mode" and press shift + : and type w (this will write to the file)
then press shift + : and type q and hit enter to exit
now you can run the PlexPy script with
/opt/bin/python2.7 /opt/plexpy/PlexPy.py
if you still get the following error "Failed to start on port: 8181. Is something else running?"
reboot your NAS and SSH into your NAS once booted fully
run the commands
mount -o bind /mnt/USB/USB2_c1 /opt
export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
cd /opt/plexpy/
and
/opt/bin/python2.7 /opt/plexpy/PlexPy.py
If there is still an error "Failed to start on port: 8181. Is something else running?" this means that the config is already stored with 8181 we need to remove it
type
cd /opt/plexpy/
after that type
ls
you will see config.ini lets remove it
then
rm -rf config.ini
same with plexpy.db (if it exists rm -rf plexpy.db)
now run
/opt/bin/python2.7 /opt/plexpy/PlexPy.py
you should now see this output which ensures that PlexPy is running
Go to your browser and type your WD My Cloud / Mirror NAS's ip with your port 8181 (if you changed the port then use your custom port in my case port 5366) mine is http://192.168.1.120:5366
you should see this
That is it, you now have PlexPy running on your WD My Cloud / Mirror NAS :)
Keep note that everytime you reboot you will have to mount / bind and export for /opt
I haven't found a way to do this automatically but i will keep you guys updated once i do
it is because /etc/fstab isn't writable so an application should possibly fix this if i decide to make one
Hope this helps enjoy!
- Baraka