Install Resilio/Bittorrent Sync on a WD Wireless Passport Pro

14 January 2017 by CHP

I recently purchased the new Western Digital Wireless Passport Pro and wanted to sync the photos with my NAS.
I decided to use Resilio aka Bittorrent Sync aka Btsync for the syncing.

• First enable SSH on your WD Passport Pro.
• Then SSH into the device.
• mkdir /DataVolume/resilio
• cd /DataVolume/resilio

• Download the latest version of Resilio Sync for ARMHF:
• wget https://download-cdn.resilio.com/stable/linux-armhf/resilio-sync_armhf.tar.gz
• tar -zxvf resilio-sync_armhf.tar.gz
• rm resilio-sync_armhf.tar.gz

• Create a default config file.
• ./rslsync --dump-sample-config > /DataVolume/resilio/btsync.conf
• Then start Resilio and configure through your web browser.
• ./rslsync --webui.listen 0.0.0.0:8888

And that’s it. Resilio Sync starts and is happily syncing away!

Update:

If you want Resilio to autostart when your WD Passport starts, follow the instructions at HackViking but with a few changes.

• For some reason the /etc/init.d/btsync script doesn’t autostart on its own.
• Since I have Plex Media Server autostarting already, I edited:
  nano /etc/init.d/S80plexmediaserver
• I added /DataVolume/resilio/rslsync--config /DataVolume/resilio/btsync.conf to the startme() block.
• And added killall rslsync to the stopme() block.

Now as long as Plex Media Server starts, then Resilio will start when you turn on your device. A bit hacky, but it works.

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