Announcing MinimServer 2.2

[DavidHB]

(22-12-2022 17:19)simoncn Wrote:  The intention is that the text-based interface will at some point become the advanced configuration interface, with a new configuration wizard as a friendlier introduction for new users. At present I have no time estimate for when this will happen.

This is good too. My concern was that the web based interface would turn into a forest of check boxes and radio button selections, which, beyond a certain (rather basic) point, can become more confusing than the text interface. But a wizard to get started and then the text interface to refine things further is, for me, pretty much ideal.

(22-12-2022 17:19)simoncn Wrote:  The misleading version number in the QNAP App Center is mentioned in the last paragraph of the Update install section on this page. There is nothing I can do to change this. It will come right eventually when 2.2 is available from the App Center.

This is less a case of my failure to read the web page than of the beautifully simple and straightforward update procedure. For all three instances of MinimServer I have installed, no guidance was needed. But it's good to know that, as ever, you were on the case.

(22-12-2022 17:19)simoncn Wrote:  I have not heard about Qmanager previously. I will take a look at this.

Qmanager seems to be the Android counterpart of QFinder Pro on Windows. I now see that it is consistent with QFinder. Both show the version number as 2.1 or ,2.1.2 as you have described, but also display a largish thumbnail of the MinimServer status page, which is the 0.8.1 version. The NAS which was which was previously on version 2.1 displays a placeholder where the thumbnail should be. The MinimServer status page can be opened from QFinder but not from Qmanager, which is a bit of a pain, as that would be the obvious way to work with MinimServer settings from my tablet. But I can still access the page via the IP address and port number.

David