running “Hibiscus Payment-Server” on a Synology DiskStation

  • http://willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/
  • https://www.synology.com/en-global/releaseNote/JavaManager
  • Synology’s JavaManager assists in installing Oracle’s JVM successfully
  • I succeeded running the hibiscus server shell script to start the hibiscus server
  • I have operated the hibiscus server successfully for months now on openSUSE VMs
  • just as I operated the openSUSE based hibiscus servers, the Synology BusyBox+IPKG based hibiscus server seems to run stably and successfully for now
  • i.e. “all” my bank accounts, that I can communicate with through HBCI/FinTS, are now getting synchronised to databases on my local NAS twice an hour (or as often as I want); this synchronisation happens independently of any desktop or notebook PC being online
  • another piece of software (developed by myself) dumps these databases to CSV-like bank statement text files, and informs me of changes to them through XMPP AKA Jabber communication
  • corruption of the hibiscus-server databases does not hurt me at all – it is only a means to communicate with the banks – it’s just that the bank-enforced HBCI/FinTS communication isn’t stateless and stores records on databases   – everything I need in the end are the CSV-like text files – setting up the bank account details on hibiscus-server is a piece of cake
  • after the success with Synology’s JavaManager I tried my earlier self-installed Oracle JVM again, and running hibiscus-server with that one was just as successful

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