I have been going back and forth with Synology support. Then I logged into the Synology DS218+, became root, and installed the software. To follow these instructions, you will need a Synology NAS box with an Intel processor, DSM 6.1, and a computer running Ubuntu (or Debian) Linux. I may give up on the Synology for now and try Home Assistant on an old RPi. My data on the Synology is just too valuable to me and I don’t want to lose it. I see one post that DSM no longer runs and that scares me. There are just too many possible problems. BUT, my forum reading about chroot on Synology convinces me that I don’t want to support a full Debian OS running inside DSM. Indeed I believe it is possible to install a chroot environment on Synology and that is certainly a method to have the latest versions of Linux software.
It could be that the development team does not realize that some recent update adversely affects operation for Synology. What is the method to install a newer version of Python3? I am also considering opening a defect against the install documentation for Synology since it is impossible to install a version of Home Assistant that will run on the Synology with the directions as written. The only reason I installed Python3 was to support Home Assistant, so a ‘non-supported’ install should not affect anything else. I would consider updating Python on my Synology box.
