Hi all,
I have a Synology ds213j which was intended to run Plex Media Server. Unfortunately, I failed to notice that the standard PMS release for Synology will not work on the ds213j, since this is the only Synology model based on armv7l ISA (Marvell armada370 SoC), while all other arm-based Synology units are armv5.
Synology told me that I should talk to Plex about possible future support, and Plex have failed (at least till now) to respond to any forum/facebook/email message I have sent to them regarding this matter.
Therefor I tried to manually generate an installation package for an armv7l based Synology machine.
Since I have no access to the original source files, I had to take a brute-force approach and tried combining two official PMS packages (Synology armv5 and RedHat armv7l rpm file) into a single package.
I was hoping that you could tell me if the approach I took has any chance of succeeding and if so, assist me in debugging the failures that I'm seeing.
Building the package:
- I found an armv7l RPM file here: http://plexrpms.markwalker.dk/arm/plexmediaserver-0.9.7.28.33-1.armv7l.rpm
- I downloaded the Synology armv5 spk file (PlexMediaServer-0.9.7.28.33-f80a4a2-arm.spk) from Synology's website.
- Unpacked both packages, and replaced any executable in the armv5 Synology package with the corresponding exec from the armv7 package (mainly Plex and Python files).
- Changed the arch statements in the INFO file to indicate "noarch", so that the package installer won't fail the installation on arch mismatch.
- Repackaged everything back
The package installs successfully and server seems to run, but the log file is full of error messages related to unresponsive plug-ins (Full log attachedPlex Media Server.log (42.8 KB)).
Sep 26, 2013 09:36:47 [0x4558c460] ERROR - Error reading from plug-in [com.plexapp.system], we're killing it (got: '').
Any assistance (or explanation why my approach could never work) would be greatly appreciated.
Arnon
