Need your help - Syncthing installation on Synology DS218+

[Curly (Gabriela)]

Hello, I am using Syncthing on a Synology DS115j for about one year now. Now I have a new Synology disk station - DS218+. I have added http://packages.synocommunity.com/ to the package manager and allowed beta versions to be displayed. Still, I cannot find the SyncThing package anymore :-(. Please help - I am not a Synology specialist and I am not fit in installing packages manually. How can I install Syncthing on this disk station? Best regards, Curly

[wweich]

Best check the syno forum. There you should get better support as this is a syno problem, not a syncthing problem.

Though there was a thread not long ago where syncthing wasn’t listed in the packages with some DSM versions:

Synology DS216play. Syncthing failed to run then disappeared from Syno Community Repo

I had indeed tried that however the packages were not available. I tried removing and re-adding the repo several times to see if that would re-fresh the packages. However with regards to a further update; I have updated my DSM to “DSM 6.1.3-15152 Update 4” which has just been released and all the missing packages from synocommunity have re-appeared and are available for install. I will test an install on my DS214 and will report back.

[Curly (Gabriela)]

Thanks a lot, wweich. Unfortunately, I already have DSM version 6.1.4-15217 Update 5. I will try to get a solution in the syno forum, but if anybody here has an idea, please update this thread.

[argus-core]

You can download the official binary and run it using triggered / scheduled tasks (Control Panel -> System -> Task Scheduler). For 218+ you’ll need the linux-amd64 flavor.

[Moisie]

Hi Gabriela:

I’m running the same DSM as you, and can see Syncthing in the listed packages. I suspect you need to do these:

• Go into Package Centre > Settings > General: set Trust Level to Synology Inc and Trusted Publishers;
• Back in Package Centre, scroll to the bottom of the list down the left-hand side, and go into Community. In here you should find Syncthing listed.

I hope that’s of some help!

Pants.

[Curly (Gabriela)]

@Moisie: Unfortunately, this is exactly what I have done. Still, no SyncThing package there. @argus-core: I am not a specialist in this, I simply expect a tool like SyncThing to have an installer routine and work flawlessly without such manual steps.

I am about to change to some other sync tool as I do not have the time to care for such installation issues on my own.

[Moisie]

@Curly - Sorry to hear this. I’ve just set up another two Synology NAS units, and had no problem installing the Syncthing package as described.

Are you seeing any other packages from the SynoCommunity repository?

[Curly (Gabriela)]

@Moisie: Thanks for your reply, but I have changed to resilio now. It takes me too much time to solve such issues, unfortunately. That’s a pity as I was very happy with Syncthing, but with resilio I found an adequate solution which runs flawlessly on all target systems.