Ignition and Synology NAS

Ignition
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Good morning everyone,

I wonder if should be possible install Ignition Maker Edition on a Synology NAS. I’d like to play at home but I don’t want to have PC always turned on.

Thank you

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hi @Aiasa21,
it depends of the model. some Synology nas can run docker or virtual machine. you could then go this way.
but natively I don't think there is a way to install ignition on a Synology nas.

regards

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Hi @Arnaud_Declerck, I’ve search about the docker and my Synology can’t manage it, it’s too old (DS414). I should have a look about other virtual machine maybe…

Is there any way to play with Ignition without a PC? I’ve read something about rasberry but I should elaborate on it.

Thanks for the help

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Yeah you can install it on a Rasberry Pi, you just can’t run designer on the Pi itself I think.

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Ok I understand… This is a little bit limiting.

I wonder if should be a good solution buy a mini-computer, in this case I could install it and use the designer maybe with a remote connection with the main PC.
Eventually in your opinion what are the minimum hardware requirements for maker edition and maybe a database to store temperature. The idea is to create a house management, nothing too challenging.

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You can install Maker on a Pi and run designer on your main PC. Cheaper than a NUC etc.

I can’t find Maker system requirements but from the Server sizing guide:

2 Cores (2 GHz+), 2GB memory, SSD
0-100 value changes per second
Requires approximately 300GB disk space/year if 100% of the values are changing every second sustained (approximately 6GB with 2% change, smaller with slower rates)
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Thanks for the information, I’m looking about a mini-pc with this hardaware:
Processor N5095
8Gb RAM
256GB SSD

230€

What do you think about it?

About the space, maybe is possibile to save the history on the NAS instead the mini pc

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I have a DS224+.. i believe qualify as hardware... but does anyone ever installed ? any instructions.. download etc..?
thx

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You can run docker on that model, that would be my recommendation.

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Generally Docker, VMs, etc run on the Synologies with Celeron or higher chips. The ones with Atom chips, often advertised without a chip name, are more limited. I had a j model to start then moved to a + model a few years later.

Edit: Their container manager used to be a pain to configure, since it was its own thing - not quite Docker Desktop, not quite Portainer, and definitely not command line. But when they upgraded Container Manager to allow compose stacks, it became much easier to use and portable with other container hosts.

Overall, has been a great platform, but they've had some serious downgrades in the past few years that make me rethink if I'd buy another: making hardware compatibility more difficult since they now sell drives/RAM, and removing packages like VideoStation.

I highly recommend "1 liter" computers for homelabbing. Essentially laptop hardware inside a tiny desktop package, and available cheap second hand.

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