MediaMon

File monitor and auto-indexer for Synology DiskStation NAS.

I'm using this on a DS213j, but I expect it may work on other models as well (DS214+ was reported successfully for one).

Usage

1. Install Python from the DiskStation package manager.

2. SSH into your DiskStation as root (e.g. ssh root@192.168.1.20 -- use the right IP address for your DiskStation) and install pyinotify:

   cd /root/
   wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyinotify/pyinotify-0.9.4.tar.gz
   tar -xzvf pyinotify-0.9.4.tar.gz
   cd pyinotify-0.9.4/
   python setup.py install

3. Copy mediamon.py to the DiskStation's /root/ directory (scp mediamon.py root@192.168.1.20:/root/).
4. Copy S99mediamon.sh to the DiskStation's /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/ directory (scp S99mediamon.sh root@192.168.1.20:/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/).
5. SSH into the DiskStation again and run chmod 755 /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99mediamon.sh, then /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99mediamon.sh start to start up the monitor.
6. Add some media files to /volume1/photo, /volume1/music, or /volume1/video, and check the log at /var/log/mediamon.log to verify that it's working. You should see a synoindex -a entry for each added file.

Note: To change the default watched folders, you can add /etc/mediamon/mediamon.ini (adapt to your needs):

[main]

# logging file logfile = /var/log/mediamon.log # pid file pidfile = /var/run/mediamon.pid # list of space separated paths to watch watched_paths = /volume1/video /volume1/tech-conf /volume1/foobar # list of space separated allowed extensions allowed_exts = jpg jpeg png tga gif bmp ogg ogv mp4 avi m4v # excluded pattern filter exclude_dir_patterns = @eaDir .sync .stfolder

Caveats

I've noticed I have to repeat steps 2-5 after any DSM upgrade. There may be a way to avoid this by placing files in some other location that isn't wiped out by DSM upgrades, but so far I haven't looked into it. I don't think S99mediamon.sh would work to restart the monitor after reboot if placed anywhere else.

Suggestions, improvements, bug reports or pull requests welcome!

Credits

Based on a blog post.