Does any one successfully setup syncthing on AXT-1800?

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Just to be clear on the terminology: it’s not really a plugin; it’s a standalone program that runs on the router (instead of your PC for example).

This assumes Slate AX firmware 4.4.6-release1 (GL GUI → System → Upgrade). You’ll need to

  1. Have a storage device/target already mounted (in my case it is /mnt/sda1)
    • have a directory on said storage target ‘owned’ by the syncthing user
      • in my case all Syncthing data/‘folders’ are under /mnt/sda1/syncthing
        • mkdir /mnt/sda1/syncthing
        • chown -R syncthing:syncthing /mnt/sda1/syncthing
  2. Set the first (OpenWrt Linux) Syncthing configuration file to match the storage target & enable the Syncthing Web GUI
    • nano /etc/config/syncthing
      • match my values as needed per the below output example
      • adjust option nice to a higher number (eg: 15) so Syncthing runs with less impact/performance on the CPU/SOC for more critical running programs/processes as desired
  3. Execute /etc/init.d/syncthing enable; /etc/init.d/syncthing start
    • confirm it’s running & will do so on reboot via ps -w | grep syncthing; service | grep syncthing
  4. Navigate to https://192.168.8.1:8384 & log into the Syncthing Web GUI

There’s another conf (/mnt/sda1/synchting/conf.xml) that can be editied but it should be enough to use the web GUI instead. Just be sure to match the storage target dirs/paths to the syncthing-owned directory.

root@slateax:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
mtd:ubi_rootfs           52.8M     52.8M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                   196.4M    640.0K    195.8M   0% /tmp
/dev/ubi0_2              45.6M     25.5M     17.8M  59% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay       45.6M     25.5M     17.8M  59% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
/dev/mmcblk0p1          115.9G     13.6G    101.7G  12% /mnt/sda

root@slateax:~# ls -l /mnt/sda1/
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root        4.0K Jan  9 17:12 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         296 Jan  9 18:27 ..
drwx------    7 syncthin syncthin    4.0K Jan 12 20:35 syncthing

root@slateax:~# cat /etc/config/syncthing

config syncthing 'syncthing'
        option enabled '1'

        # option gui_address 'http://127.0.0.1:8384'
        option gui_address 'http://0.0.0.0:8384'

        # Use internal flash for evaluation purpouses. Use external storage
        #   for production.
        # This filesystem must either support ownership/attributes or
        #   be readable/writable by the user specified in
        #   'option user'.
        # Consult syslog if things go wrong.
        option home '/mnt/sda1/syncthing'

        # Changes to "niceness"/macprocs are not picked up by "reload_config"
        #   nor by "restart": the service has to be stopped/started
        #   for those to take effect
        option nice '10'

        # 0 to match the number of CPUs (default)
        # >0 to explicitly specify concurrency
        option macprocs '0'

        # Running as 'root' is possible, but not recommended
        option user 'syncthing'

        option logfile '/var/log/syncthing.log'
        option log_max_old_files 7
        # Size in bytes
        option log_max_size 1048576

        # # CLI options with no value should be defined as booleans and theirs
        # # names should be prefixed with '_'.
        option _no_default_folder '1'

        # # Extra settings
        # list _ 'verbose'

root@slateax:~# ps -w | grep syncthing; service | grep syncthing
 2894 syncthing      1376 S    /usr/bin/syncthing
/etc/init.d/syncthing             enabled         running

You’ll probably want to review this HOW-TO before digging into Syncthing if you’ve never used SSH or edited text/conf files on Linux:

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