Just like to say I’ve given it another try and with some effort, looks like I have it running on my ReadyNAS 516, and able to Autoboot with the NAS. It would be nice if there was a simple .deb file to install and have it all working and be able to see it as a app running on my NAS and being able to easily turn it on/off like the others, but at least it’s working. I have been using SickRage which is a app that can be easily installed and does the same thing. It has it’s pro’s and con’s like Sonarr but it has been working pretty good and gets updates regularly that easily install with a click. I’ll see how Sonarr works out on my ReadyNAS 516 now. Flip the switch and turn off SickRage for now. Easily turn that back on at anytime. It is great getting things offloaded from my PC.
Now running, Sonarr, CouchPotato, NZBGet, Plex Media Server, PlexPL. The ReadyNAS can handle at least a couple 1080P Transcode’s at once. I haven’t tried to see what MAX is yet. PlexPl is a Log Database type program;. This allows me to easily see who is connecting to my Plex server, When, What they’e watching, etc. I can see what’s the most active files, or the most active user, hours viewing content. There’s Graphs, etc. Pretty cool and easy enough to install on the NAS. I now have a friend that can access PLEX and that works great. Sonarr is a big part in getting TV programs.
I’ve been using SmartTTY to gain access to my NAS. This is not for the faint of heart. You can screw your NAS up big time if not careful gaining direct access like this. If you screw things up, you’ll have to do a full restore of your NAS. Make sure your files are backed up.
You need to follow the directions for Debian/Ubuntu at
You can Cut/Paste to enter things!!! Go ahead and run it and view the web page to see it working. But it’ll only run so long as SmartTTY is up and running. When you quit, SONARR stops running. You can check this doing a page reload. When I would cut/Paste, I’d get a ^M when hitting the enter key, delete it and hit enter again, or after you paste, do a space forward and then delete back and hit enter and it’ll work without throwing up a ^M. What that means?!?!
That was was the easy part. This next part is a little harder. You need it to autostart when your ReadyNAS starts up. So you need to install and run the script for Sonarr. That is found here!
http://nzbdrone.readthedocs.io/Autostart-on-Debian/
The first line “sudo vim /etc/init.d/nzbdrone” will fail as there’s no VIM on your readynas, which is a Text editor. So you need to install it. This is easy enough, 2 lines.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vim
Now when you enter the line above, it will open up. Now Highlight that script go back into SmartTTY and you can paste it into the file. Now I’m not sure why, but it was missing some stuff on the top line. So look and make sure the top and bottom is correct. It matches!!! When that is perfect, change any lines in the code you need to in the Edit Me section. The only thing I changed was the user to admin, you could just leave it. When it’s all done, Hit the Esc key once and then the Colon Key, you should be brought down to the bottom left, enter x to save.
Then continue on to Make it executable, Update rc.d, and finally, Start Sonarr.
You can check in your web browser if Sonarr is running. If you want, you can restart your NAS and then when done see it it’s still running!!! It should be,as it’s still running for me. Then setup Sonarr!!! That takes a little time also to get right. No more needing direct NAS access to do all that.
It takes effort to Google around and figure things out. I’m not a Linux person. My first try didn’t work out so well. So I went to SickRage. My second try seems to have worked this time. You want the script working. so your NAS works on it’s own. You don’t want to have to manually start Sonarr when you turn on your PC and only work so long as your PC is running. You might as well have it on your PC instead at that point.
I also got my Weather Station Reporting off of my PC, that reports to Weather Underground and a number of other places onto a cheap Netgear DIR-505 router. It’s a tiny little thing, that I could flash over with METEOBRIDGE software. That thing only uses 1-2 watts of power. It works so well that once setup I can just let it be and let it do it’s thing. It was just over $20 for the Router and around $75 for a lifetime licence for Meteobridge.
http://www.meteobridge.com/wiki/index.php/Home
Works with a number of Weather Stations. I’m using a AcuRite 5 in 1. There’s a trick to get it to work correctly plugged into the USB port. That was the final thing to get off my power hungry 100-170 watt PC. I can turn it completely off now. It used to run so many things 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Now ZIP!!!