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Sometimes my Netatmo station doesn’t send data to the cloud and unfortunately there is no notification. If you don’t open the app or the website manually you are not aware of this issue and you have data loss / not a complete history.

To get a notification when the Netatmo station loses the internet connection I have a found a relativ simple solution (until Netatmo build this feature in their app, hopefully).

Prerequisites

• Netatmo Account (probably you have alredy one)
• Google Account (is free)

Installation

I found this project on Github. Please follow the install instructions as describe here:

https://github.com/tanaikech/Notifying-with-email-when-Netatmo-was-down

After the installation you should have something like this in your Google Apps Script Console:

Trigger

To run the script periodically we need to set up a trigger like this. The time interval can be changed accordingly to your needs:

Monitor

To monitor your script to check if it is working correctly you can open the “My Executions” page and check the “Status” column:

Notification

A test notification (email) looks like this:

My Synology is a DS918+ and actually has installed three WD Red with each 6 TB of space. The problem is that two of them have a “power-on time” of >40’000 hours. That means, that they have been running since over 4.5 years.

The normal estimated lifespan of NAS HDs is about 3-5 years (it depends on the amount of data written and other factors like temperature). In any case the probability that this two HDs will fail is high.

The new disks

After some research I decided to get the Seagate IronWolf with 8 TB of space. It seems that they are performing better and they are cheaper (~10%) as the WD Red. One negative point could be, that the fail rate is higher. There are many people reporting, that a lot of Seagate are failing already after 3 years. We will see

Requirements

Requirement for the disk replacement is that you have a storage pool on a RAID. In my case I have a Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) with 1-drive fault tolerance:

Another requirement is that the new disk has at least the same space as the old one or more. Pay attention that there could be some differences between manufacturer. For example 6 TB WD Red or 6 TB Seagate could have some differencies that would fail the replacement.

Replacement

The replacement is the easiest part. Take one HD out and put the new one back in the Synology.

Now go to your Storage Pool and start the repair process as show below:

Depending on the HD size it takes some hours. In my case about 20 hours / disk. During the repair process the most things are working as usual. I found only one problem with the Video Station: all the videos could not be played because of insufficient disk volume size.

Speed test

I did also a simple speed test copying and pasting a video file (~2 GB size) locally. The WD RED 6TB was reading and writing with a speed of aboud 113 MB/s

The Seagate IronWolf 8 TB was about 20% faster than the WD:

This is probably because the Seagate has 7200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm of the WD disk.

Disk temperature

One point in favour of the WD is the temperature. It is ~7-8 degrees colder than Seagate: 42° (WD) vs. 49° (Seagate).

Wipe data on old disks

Bevor we sell or trash the old disk I reccomend to wipe the data. I used the Delock Docking- and Clone-Station:

N.b. the labels on the following pictures are in German. In the text I put the English names.

Create a service in the Automator App

The first step is to start the Automator App (search it with cmd + space) and create a new document:

Now select “Service“:

In the first step in the automation process change at “Service receives selected” the “Image Files” option:

Now, on the left side, choose “Files and Folders” then “Get Specified Finder Items” and drag it to the right side:

As the same way add “Photos” -> “Scale Images” as another step in the workflow:

If you want to overwrite the original picture select “Don’t Add“. If you want to copy the original picture, select “Add” to create a copy before to resize it. I selected “Don’t Add“:

Change the desideret output resolution. I set it to 1920 px. This is a Full HD resolution:

Now save it:

And give a name like:

Test it with a single image and a lot of images

I have an image with the size of 4592 x 3056 px. It takes 6.7 MB of disk space:

Now I right click it, select “Services” and “Resize to 1920px“. This is the previously created automation service:

Automator resize it automatically in the background. You only see quickly this icon in the menu bar:

The result is a picture with the size of 1920 x 1277 px and only 626 KB of disk space:

The same can be done also for many pictures. I have a folder containing 75 pictures. The size is 404.9 MB:

Open the folder, select all pictures (cmd + a), right-click, go to “Services” and “Resize to 1920px“:

It takes about 20 seconds to resize all pictures (75). Here is the result (90% less disk space consumption!):

Congratulations! Now you should be able to resize your images

In this short tutorial I use my MacOS Sierra as client and a Ubuntu 10 as server. It will also work on other Linux / Unix versions.

Generate a key pair

The first step is to generate a key pair (private and public key) to use for authentication. The private key will remain on your computer in a safe place. The public key will be imported on the server. Open a terminal and type:

mbpl:~ lucacosta$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/lucacosta/.ssh/id_rsa): luca
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in luca.
Your public key has been saved in luca.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:KoTUeuoGwMvHSEsEGy4KzBe09XKLQ+RVZiUbgVucS3s lucacosta@mbpl
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 2048]----+
|+ .o o .+B+. |
|++ .* o.o=+ |
|*+.o.+ o+.o |
|==.o. +..o E |
|* B oo .S . |
|.= * .. |
| .o . . |
| .. . |
| .. |
+----[SHA256]-----+

Copy your public key to the server that you want connect

Replace <user>@<destination_server> with your username and destination server:

mbpl:~ lucacosta$ ssh-copy-id -f -i /Users/lucacosta/luca.pub <user>@<destination_server>
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: Source of key(s) to be installed: "/Users/lucacosta/luca.pub"
xxxx@xxxxxxxxx's password: 

Number of key(s) added:        1

Move your private key in your .ssh folder

The last thing to do is to move your private key on your computer to a folder named .ssh and rename it with “id_rsa”. In my home directory I have two keys named luca and luca.pub (this is the name that you typed when creating the key pair). With the command “ls” you get the list of the files like this:

mbpl:~ lucacosta$ ls
Applications			Music
Applications (Parallels)	NoSync
Creative Cloud Files		OneDrive
Desktop				Pictures
Documents			Public
Downloads			Synology
Dropbox				luca
Library				luca.pub
Movies

Now copy your private key (in my case “luca”) to the “.ssh” folder with the new name “id_rsa”:

mbpl:~ lucacosta$ cp luca .ssh/id_rsa

Test the connection with the certificate

Now we can test the connection (if you choosed to set a password for your private key you need to enter it when prompt):

mbpl:~ lucacosta$ ssh xxxxx@xxxxxxxx
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/lucacosta/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Linux xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2.6.32-042stab120.5 #1 SMP Tue Oct 25 22:31:12 MSK 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS

Welcome to Ubuntu!
 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Thu Mar  2 20:36:54 2017 from xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx:~# 

Solution

For those that have the same problem there is a solution: You need to open this link and click on “Get the anniversary Update now”:

It will download a setup executable. Run it:

And click on “Update Now”:

Important: For the upgrade you need at least 20 GB free disk space and Windows must be activated. Additionally I suggest to take a full backup (for example with True Image) or a Snapshot if it is virtualized.

The download is staring now:

After the installation (approximately 15-30 min depending on your pc) you will see this screen:

From now it will take another 60-90 minutes to complete the installation (the pc will restart several times):

After the installation check if windows has been upgraded succesfully typing

winver

DONE!

Only for virtualized windows: for performance optimisation don’t forget to delete the snapshot after the upgrade.

New features

For all new features (version 1607) please refer to this link: What’s new Windows 10.

My Environment

Actually I’m using the following components:

• MacBook Pro 15″
• Windows 10 PC with two 4K Monitors
• Synology Diskstation DS214 play

Set up the Synology Cloud Station

The first thing to do is to set up the Synology Diskstation as a Cloud Station. This is really simple because on the Synology you only need to install the package “Cloud Station” and enable it. A full tutorial with the instructions how to do it is here to find: Synology PC/MAC Cloud Station.

If you have another NAS you need to check in Google how to set it up correctly. Also for Dropbox, OneDrive you will find a guide. The process is quite the same. (N. B. for online clouds the disk space is limited (for example Dropbox has 2 GB). If you need more space (probably you will) you need to buy a subscription (normally about 100$/year). In this case you need to check if it is better to buy a NAS (like Synology, QNAP, etc.) solution with more space and without recurring costs.

Move the Lightroom Library

After the synchonisation between Mac <=> Synology <=> PC is working the last step is to move the Lightroom Library to the Synology synchronisation folder. In my setup I have synchronised the Synology Cloud Client with the following local folders:

• Windows: C:\Users\<Username>\Synology
• Mac: /users/<Username>/Synology

So, all the files contained in the Synology folder are synchronized. In the Synology folder I have created a new folder “Lightroom” where I put the Lightroom catalog and the pictures data.

The last step is to start Lightroom and under “File -> Open Catalog” select the Lightroom Catalog from the “Synology -> Lighroom” folder. You might also need to update the folder containing the pictures data. To do this mark the Folder and then select “Update folder location…”, like this:

Et voilà, the two computers are syncing the data.

Conclusion

I’m working with the synchronisation between Mac and PC since some days and it seems to be all fine. If you don’t have the possibility to have a central storage like the Synology you can also synchronize the data directly between the computers with BitTorrent. I haven’t testet it so far but it should also work fine. If you are intrested search in Google, there are many tutorials how to do it.

Components

• ASUS WLAN Adapter
  PCE-AC68 (PCI-E x1, 1300Mbit/s, 450Mbit/s)
• be quiet! CPU cooler
  Dark Rock PRO 3 (16.30cm)
• Intel CPU
  Core i7 4790K BOX (LGA 1150, 4GHz, Unlocked)
• Fractal Midi Tower
  Define R5 Black (Midi Tower, Schwarz)
• Gigabyte Motherboard
  GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (LGA 1150, Z97, ATX)
• be quiet! power supply
  Pure Power CM L8 (630W)
• Seagate (2nd harddrive)
  Desktop SSHD (2000GB, 3.5″, Desktop)
• HyperX memory
  Fury Red (2x, 8GB, DDR3-1600, DIMM 240)
• ASUS gaming card
  GTX 960 STRIX DC2OC (GM206, 4GB)
• HyperX (ssd)
  Savage (240GB, 2.5″, 3.5″ Bracket)

Gallery

Conclusion

The pc is really quite. When it is powerd on it doesen’t make any noise, also when gaming. Counter strike is playable in full texture details with a 4k resolution (3840 × 2160 px). Call of Duty Black Ops III, Far Cry 4 or GTA V are playable in FullHD with high texture and at least 30-40 frames/s. The Seagate SSHD is faster than a normal HD and perfect for saving games and movies. I have connected it to 2 monitors ASUS PB287Q 4K. All in all a good pc at a reasonable price.