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Ok, I actually have a Gekko APK, but I have got stuck at the point where this requires Node.js at least >=8.11.2 and I only have v6.9.1

Did you have this issue and did you find a way around this? Or does your model NAS actually have a later version available?

FYI, I also remembered, when looking at other Apps that the NAS does include a daemon tool... /sbin/start-stop-daemon
This is what i am using for this APK if I can ever get past this damn node.js version issue.

This is as far as I have got.

I run into issues with npm modules not compiling... but the structure if there and it uses a daemon etc...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xppxg2a984yo ... y.apk?dl=0

Still needs some debugging...

It appears to run, but as there are errors I am not getting the WEB UI to come up yet.

Appreciate any feedback if you had found a way to get these packages to run.

https://github.com/askmike/gekko/blob/d ... ckage.json

Looking at these dependencies, I may have a lot more work to do. I think there are at least 2-3 dependencies that need to be pre-compiled!! and then updates may be problematic.

Yes i got stuck there too when attempting to install TA-lib/Tulip indicators (required for some more sophisticated strategies).
Other than that i did not find any other errors with the current node.js. The creator emphasis the use of at least 8.0 tho.
I tried to install the latest node.js via git pull but there still some symlinks/path issues.

By the way there is also a Gekko forum and the creator "askmike" is pretty cooperative. https://forum.gekko.wizb.it/index.php

Damn you're hella fast! I am at work right now and can't follow you with the apk.

So my version of node.js wouldn't allow this to run at all!
So I have bundled node.js (latest) with this apk, but that in itself may require additional modules to be built that were already in the pre-existing.

I would be curious to know how this works (if it does) on your system as is...
if you can't get into the webUI you can make a small modification in the start-stop.sh to make this use your version of node.js

in file /usr/local/AppCentral/gekko/CONTROL/start-stop.sh
edit out the 3 "export" lines by adding a "#" then restart the app via

Just a brief explanation... this package is just a wrapper, it actually downloads and extracts the current node.js for your system's architecture, exports the paths, then downloads (via git) the current gekko and tries to build the necessary dependencies... this is where the issues occur.

so the changes I suggested above only serve to stop the system trying to use the downloaded node.js and therefore defaults to the version in your default Path.

The start-stop.sh also checks your current internal IP and writes this into the config to allow your system to run headless.

Please check the config, as I couldn't get into the WebUI and I just assumed this was the issues with the various node modules... but it could be that I missed something required to make this run as headless??
FYI, gekko source is installed at /usr/local/AppCentral/gekko/Gekko/

Did you try to run the UI via command line? Do you have any log files?
One issue might be that build-essentials are not present and not even available on this version of node. That should be fixed with the new version but maybe you need to install another package that doesn't come with the plain install. E. g. gcc and make.
I am tempted to uninstall everything to try it out "out of the box", but then i again i might lose some progress.

Issue was that I was working remotely and the headless server wasn't accessible over vnp from my phone.
Once I connected locally at home it was working fine.

So out of the box this apk appears to "work" but some of those extended features probably aren't available.

Awsome! Thanks a lot!
I will give it a try later. If it indeed comes with the latest node.js the extensions should install fine.