[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

[Leo Przybylski]

Wow! That's some coincidence. I just got the EX4.

I haven't modified mine yet, but I did snoop around. It runs a twonky
media server and lighttpd, so this opens up a whole world of
possibilities. I've heard in the community that the lighttpd app for
management will crash because of hung processes like convert. My guess
is that when you flip the switch for media serving on your share, it
will run scripts against files once they've been copied. This is
probably for the twonky media server and the cloud sharing. Their
scripts are probably buggy and don't handle simultaneous executions
very well or at all. Sooooo... the plan is to do some hacking and find
out why the crashes happen and fix it. Also, I want to get rid of
twonky and replace it with something like plex while still having the
benefit of the cloud.

Leo

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:54 AM, JD Rogers <rogersjd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone else played with these? I just bought a 4TB MyCloud because I wanted
> cheap NAS with low power consumption. I confess, in an uncharacteristic
> impulse buy, I didn't really 'read up' very thoroughly before ordering. So
> when I started getting annoyed with the web interface after 30s, I was
> pleased to find I could ssh to it (as root) and use rsync.
>
> Then I started poking around and was surprised when I found a
> /etc/apt/sources.list that points to debian wheezy. An ARM processor running
> debian out of the box. Sweet. When you enable ssh, you have to acknowledge
> that "modifying" the system voids the warranty, but I figure it is worth it.
>
> Has anyone here done anything cool with one of these? I was thinking of
> trying to get dmcrypt/luks working, or maybe just encfs and some cron
> tweaks.
> JDR
>
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