My suggestion list for running on Synology NAS (they’re all dockers & open source/ free): 1. ArchiveBox: kind of a self hosted wayback machine. Lets you locally archive a webpage. 2. Linkding: lightweight bookmark manager with multiple community extensions. 3. Paperless-ngx: really good document management. 4. Audiobookshelf: best audiobook/ podcast manager. 5. Kavita: for reading manga or comics. 6. Pi-hole: Adblock for your network, if you don’t have any other device to run it on. 7. Zero tier: for connecting remotely to any docker securely.
Thanks, I'd never heard of gluetun, now got it running so certain containers are behind a VPN. My most used containers Portainer Vaultwarden Unifi controller Openspeedtest Rustdesk media containers (sonarr, radarr etc) all behind gluetun Watchtower (to autoupdate my containers)
@@peebola Glad I could help :) I personally dislike Watchtower or any sort of auto updates of docker containers. If there are breaking changes, I'd like to know in advance.
@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for the honest reply. I have use cases for VMs running on my PCs. Unless I can easily spin up a Docker container running Windows 10 with an app on Synology, probably not going to have a use case for this.
You and I are in the same camp. The docker images too often tend to be, for lack of a better term, NAS "infrastructure" apps. The problem for most of us is that we don't have the technical skills to turn our favourite apps into docker images. I found that virtual machines are far more useful although not an exact substitute for containers. I do like to watch Will do these videos though because I always learn something even if it confirms that something won't work for me. And his videos are generally so well done. Thanks Will.
I think you do that because of his calming, agreeable voice and your interest in technology in general. I now do have 2 50TB+ Synology NAS machines because of him!
Will, your videos are always helpful. I'll be looking into a couple of these containers a little later. By the way, my wife's MacBook Air croaked last week. But after the repair, I was able to recover all of her files, because I had the macOS version of Active Backup for Business running. Thanks for your earlier video on that feature!!
Sorry if this is easily searched but I wasn't able to find the answer. Does uptime kuma support "groups?" For example, I want two separate dashboards, one for my homelab and one for my customers. Or separate groups by customer.
What do you think of youtubes new ad policy. I'm not running any ad blockers and I still have a hard time getting videos to play. I hope you consider starting a web site with your videos as I wont be coming to youtube if this keeps up.
Rex, Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, I have followed you for a while now, very helpful tips. I have to say as a DIY person I sometimes find myself with the question "which apps should I install?" there are quite a few.., is there a set or series you have out there covering the apps for synology, how to install them etc?
Rex, ive been using more and more docker containers, and I'm wondering about security. Is it safe to port forward to navidrome, jellyfin, vaultwarden, etc? Does using synologys built in reverse proxy improve security at all? Do you have a video on this?
I haven't used either but I did read a blog post from a guy quite recently who had switched from Nextcloud to Syncthing ( I use Syncthing ). His biggest gripe with Nextcloud was the unnecessary complexity and syncing not working for no apparent reason. And then there were the crashes. He seemed to quite like Syncthing after getting it up and running. I looked quite seriously at Synology Drive before installing Syncthing. With Synology Drive, I didn't want to have to reconfigure my NAS to suit that one feature. Syncthing will take a while to sort out but so far, I'm happy with it. It's free and has a great user community.
what would you recommend to clone my external HDD onto the NAS? not as a backup but I would need constant access on the external HDD but occasionally I would need to access it from NAS in a different location but I need them to sync automatically so the information would be the same always.
@@SpaceRexWill I never used pihol, so I don't know. What it does do is act as a go-between for any DNS queries. In your router, you point to your NAS as your primary DNS server (plus another server as a backup). DHCP then automatically sets this for all hosts on your network transparently.
@@SpaceRexWill One of the best feature is DoH (DNS over HTTPS) by design. Really easy to setup, the gui is much more better than pihole and less resource hungry. If you want to make a video about adguard home +1 like guaranteed ;) Thank you for your awesome work.
Thanks for your great videos full of information and great content. Especially for me, as I have bought a new Synology DS923+ NAS. My biggest problem is, that I can't get any docker container deployed. I tried several ways, even with Portainer as help, but it all ends up with errors, ports being used already. Or Error Code 500 in Portainer. I don't have a clue on what is going on. Any idea what could have gone wrong?
Hi Will, like always a really nice, good and high quality education video. I really like it ;) Questions: Which do you use actual? Like which Synology you are currently running? Which Version? Which Cpu ? How much RAM? Which Setting do I need to run Docker Containers or complete Vms on a Synology Drive because i want to buy me a Nas but at the Moment I am not sure what hardware ich need. And at least is Qnap until today insecure in opening to the internet because you mentioned it in your video qnap vs. Synology (9 months ago.) I would really appreciate if you could help me with a few of my questions ,) Thanks a lot. I wish you a nice weekend Greetings Unstoppable
I love the idea of having a UniFi Controller on a NAS. I wouldn't recommend buying a NAS just for that purpose, but for clients who already have a NAS or are buying one anyway, and who also have or are buying UniFi network components, I think it's a better solution than a UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 Plus. The Cloud Key Gen2 Plus contains a hard drive that's supposed to enable it to act as the NVR in an all-UniFi setup that includes surveillance, but the Cloud Key Gen2 Plus's single hard drive strikes me as being inadequate for all but maybe the smallest of systems. A Synology NAS, on the other hand, can be an excellent place to store surveillance camera recordings, and it will work with many more surveillance systems than just UniFi.
Only caveat is that you can only run the Network application and not Protect, Access, Identity, etc. If you don't need those, then it works fine, but if you do then you'll need Ubiquiti hardware unfortunately.
So every single one of these things can be installed on debian (maybe not homebridge, not sure) Easiest thing to do is spin up a debian server vm (command line only) and ssh in and try to install and run each of these!
Hello Space Rex community. I've been using Synology NAS for many years and think it's a great product. Do anyone know of of a "second brain" application, like myReach, Mem, or Fabric that runs on Synology NAS? Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
jupyter.org It's pronounced like the planet Jupiter. I started using it at my old job, but just read it as juniper and have been pronouncing it wrong ever since
I just joined the Synology ecosystem. and I have tricked out my 1522+ with max RAM and 2x 1TB cache NvMe. I am looking to upgrade my network to 10Gig I have only a couple systems I would like to see at the 10GB speed I would like to hear/see recommendations for a 10GB switch and NIC's for windows PC's
Got my new 1522+ sitting here waiting on my drives (5x8TB) to be delivered next week. ARGH! The wait! I'm replacing my old 5x3TB Drobo with this Synology. Just spending my waiting time doing research.
@@WillBelden I am surprised at how fast Amazon wants my money... stupid little cheap stuff takes weeks but the 10GB card for the 1522+ was here in a day. I just ordered a 10GB NIC for my PC and the 5 port 10GB switch and they say it will be here tomorrow (TP-Link brand)
@@TheCynysterMind I'm sure it's all logistics. In my case, I'm a fulltime RVer, and in an RV campground that won't accept mail. So I'm using an Amazon Locker. Interestingly enought, I'm REALLY close to Tucson, AZ, where I passed a GINORMOUS Amazon Distribution Center...but I'm still guessing that either a) they do better with shipping services than AMZ staff that can access the lockers or... (and let me check) b) Yep, RAM from Eastvale, CA, and ...okay, wow. the drives are coming from Goodyear, AZ.... well, not sure why THAT took so long. Arrives Monday, ordered ... grr 11/12, FIVE days ago.
So this might not be exactly what you are looking for, but for me I use obsidian for that. There is a git plugin that I use to sync between all of my computers and phones. And it's pretty awesome. Great search, great ability to have linkings
I world have added Pi-hole especially compared to Gitea. Gitea is mostly for developers. Why not Home Assistant AND Homebridge. Homebridge can be plugged into Home Assistant 😉
My suggestion list for running on Synology NAS (they’re all dockers & open source/ free):
1. ArchiveBox: kind of a self hosted wayback machine. Lets you locally archive a webpage.
2. Linkding: lightweight bookmark manager with multiple community extensions.
3. Paperless-ngx: really good document management.
4. Audiobookshelf: best audiobook/ podcast manager.
5. Kavita: for reading manga or comics.
6. Pi-hole: Adblock for your network, if you don’t have any other device to run it on.
7. Zero tier: for connecting remotely to any docker securely.
Consider calibre-web
Ok so here we go :) My docker stacks.
NAS:
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Jackett
- Plex
- Qbittorrent
- Sabnzbd
- Bazarr
- Pihole
- Linkding
- Unifi controller
- Gluetun (to tunnel certain containers through a VPN)
NUC:
- SWAG (reverse proxy & certificates)
- HomeAssistant
- Influxdb
- Phoscon (Zigbee network management)
- Wireguard VPN
- MQTT broker
Thanks, I'd never heard of gluetun, now got it running so certain containers are behind a VPN.
My most used containers
Portainer
Vaultwarden
Unifi controller
Openspeedtest
Rustdesk
media containers (sonarr, radarr etc) all behind gluetun
Watchtower (to autoupdate my containers)
@@peebola Glad I could help :) I personally dislike Watchtower or any sort of auto updates of docker containers. If there are breaking changes, I'd like to know in advance.
Hey man I just got into the NAS world and just wanted to say that I love how you explain stuff.
Love your videos!
thank you, I always hear people say "Docker is great" but I can never find anything I actually need and want to deploy
Same.
When I started out I had the exact same issue with that and VMs!
@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for the honest reply. I have use cases for VMs running on my PCs. Unless I can easily spin up a Docker container running Windows 10 with an app on Synology, probably not going to have a use case for this.
You and I are in the same camp. The docker images too often tend to be, for lack of a better term, NAS "infrastructure" apps. The problem for most of us is that we don't have the technical skills to turn our favourite apps into docker images. I found that virtual machines are far more useful although not an exact substitute for containers. I do like to watch Will do these videos though because I always learn something even if it confirms that something won't work for me. And his videos are generally so well done. Thanks Will.
Pihole or ad guard.
Tailscale to easily VPN into your network.
I don’t like or use docker, but I watched anyway as I love your content.
Uptime Kuma and Pi-Hole setup videos would both be great!
funny thing: I don't have synology but I watch all your videos ;-)
I think you do that because of his calming, agreeable voice and your interest in technology in general. I now do have 2 50TB+ Synology NAS machines because of him!
What good would nextcloud be if synology already has synology drive?
Would genuinely like to know. What are these “steroids” and do I need it?
*Minor correction:* In honorable mentions -- believe you are referring to _Jupyter Labs/Notebooks_ (not Juniper, the networking company).
Ocs inventory is also the best inventory apps that can be installed on the docker..😊
Great videos. My 1621+ arrived today. Keep it up you’re doing a great job educating the community and newbies like me.
Thanks man!
I have 2 of those at 56TB each for 3 years now and still need help from Will 🙂
Will, your videos are always helpful. I'll be looking into a couple of these containers a little later.
By the way, my wife's MacBook Air croaked last week. But after the repair, I was able to recover all of her files, because I had the macOS version of Active Backup for Business running. Thanks for your earlier video on that feature!!
Thats awesome! Best way to justify the enviable server rack you will have to your wife!
A Nextcloud installation tutorial would be helpful. Great video, thanks.
will probably look into that!
Sorry if this is easily searched but I wasn't able to find the answer. Does uptime kuma support "groups?" For example, I want two separate dashboards, one for my homelab and one for my customers. Or separate groups by customer.
What do you think of youtubes new ad policy. I'm not running any ad blockers and I still have a hard time getting videos to play. I hope you consider starting a web site with your videos as I wont be coming to youtube if this keeps up.
1. Vaultwarden (bitwarden) - password manager
2. Immich - photo manager
Hello, could you do a video a Zabbix from setup to monitoring
Great list. Thank you, Will! Could you probably do some deep dive into the NextCloud?
Rex, Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, I have followed you for a while now, very helpful tips. I have to say as a DIY person I sometimes find myself with the question "which apps should I install?" there are quite a few.., is there a set or series you have out there covering the apps for synology, how to install them etc?
Rex, ive been using more and more docker containers, and I'm wondering about security. Is it safe to port forward to navidrome, jellyfin, vaultwarden, etc? Does using synologys built in reverse proxy improve security at all? Do you have a video on this?
Can you do please a video with installing and setting up mySQL on the Synology container manager. Thanks in adv.
Great work! All the way from Sydney Australia!
Stirling PDF editor/manager. Great tools to do a numerous changes and edits to PDFs.
As always, great video. Do you prefer nextcloud over synology drive?
I haven't used either but I did read a blog post from a guy quite recently who had switched from Nextcloud to Syncthing ( I use Syncthing ). His biggest gripe with Nextcloud was the unnecessary complexity and syncing not working for no apparent reason. And then there were the crashes. He seemed to quite like Syncthing after getting it up and running. I looked quite seriously at Synology Drive before installing Syncthing. With Synology Drive, I didn't want to have to reconfigure my NAS to suit that one feature. Syncthing will take a while to sort out but so far, I'm happy with it. It's free and has a great user community.
No, synology drive is much better, easier and faster on synology nas
Please make a tutorial for up time kuma installation on synology
What's the monitor on the right, I love how minimal and slim it is.
what would you recommend to clone my external HDD onto the NAS? not as a backup but I would need constant access on the external HDD but occasionally I would need to access it from NAS in a different location but I need them to sync automatically so the information would be the same always.
yes ! Good video ! GOOD Conversation! It s nice to watch it !! Understand all!
My top three: Zabbix, AdGuard, and Gitea.
Nice! I have not used AdGuard before. Is it just like pihole?
@@SpaceRexWill I never used pihol, so I don't know. What it does do is act as a go-between for any DNS queries. In your router, you point to your NAS as your primary DNS server (plus another server as a backup). DHCP then automatically sets this for all hosts on your network transparently.
@@SpaceRexWill One of the best feature is DoH (DNS over HTTPS) by design. Really easy to setup, the gui is much more better than pihole and less resource hungry. If you want to make a video about adguard home +1 like guaranteed ;) Thank you for your awesome work.
Paperless-ngx! Awesome Document Management System.
Thank you for all that you do. Your videos are super helpful. A video discussing nextcloud would be beneficial.
Thanks for your great videos full of information and great content. Especially for me, as I have bought a new Synology DS923+ NAS. My biggest problem is, that I can't get any docker container deployed. I tried several ways, even with Portainer as help, but it all ends up with errors, ports being used already. Or Error Code 500 in Portainer. I don't have a clue on what is going on. Any idea what could have gone wrong?
do you have a guide how to install adhome guard?
Loved the topic and suggestions.
I would love to see a tutorial of Django installation on a Synology Nas . I searched a lot on the net but I didn’t find a tutorial for this
Thanks a lot! Zabbix video would be really interesting
Would definitely like an Uptime Kuma install video.
watched your 3 yo handbrake docker vid...got through most of it but its a bit diff now...can't get handbrake to open up
Vert useful’ as usual. Thx for your Time and knowledge
Please do uptime Kuma!
Hi Will,
like always a really nice, good and high quality education video. I really like it ;)
Questions: Which do you use actual? Like which Synology you are currently running?
Which Version? Which Cpu ? How much RAM? Which Setting do I need to run Docker Containers or complete Vms on a Synology Drive because i want to buy me a Nas but at the Moment I am not sure what hardware ich need.
And at least is Qnap until today insecure in opening to the internet because you mentioned it in your video qnap vs. Synology (9 months ago.)
I would really appreciate if you could help me with a few of my questions ,) Thanks a lot.
I wish you a nice weekend
Greetings
Unstoppable
I love the idea of having a UniFi Controller on a NAS. I wouldn't recommend buying a NAS just for that purpose, but for clients who already have a NAS or are buying one anyway, and who also have or are buying UniFi network components, I think it's a better solution than a UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 Plus. The Cloud Key Gen2 Plus contains a hard drive that's supposed to enable it to act as the NVR in an all-UniFi setup that includes surveillance, but the Cloud Key Gen2 Plus's single hard drive strikes me as being inadequate for all but maybe the smallest of systems. A Synology NAS, on the other hand, can be an excellent place to store surveillance camera recordings, and it will work with many more surveillance systems than just UniFi.
Completely agree, its not a reason to go out and buy one, but its really nice being able to spin one up in like two seconds!
Only caveat is that you can only run the Network application and not Protect, Access, Identity, etc. If you don't need those, then it works fine, but if you do then you'll need Ubiquiti hardware unfortunately.
Great YT!! Any suggestions on where I can go to learn Debian Server?
So every single one of these things can be installed on debian (maybe not homebridge, not sure)
Easiest thing to do is spin up a debian server vm (command line only) and ssh in and try to install and run each of these!
Thank you Will 🙏 /from Sweden
Hello Space Rex community. I've been using Synology NAS for many years and think it's a great product. Do anyone know of of a "second brain" application, like myReach, Mem, or Fabric that runs on Synology NAS? Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Obsidian
Adguard Home top 1
Where can I find that "Juniper Labs"?
jupyter.org
It's pronounced like the planet Jupiter. I started using it at my old job, but just read it as juniper and have been pronouncing it wrong ever since
Thanks
Home Assistant does not work well in a container as no add-on and updates.
I just joined the Synology ecosystem. and I have tricked out my 1522+ with max RAM and 2x 1TB cache NvMe.
I am looking to upgrade my network to 10Gig I have only a couple systems I would like to see at the 10GB speed
I would like to hear/see recommendations for a 10GB switch and NIC's for windows PC's
Got my new 1522+ sitting here waiting on my drives (5x8TB) to be delivered next week. ARGH! The wait! I'm replacing my old 5x3TB Drobo with this Synology. Just spending my waiting time doing research.
@@WillBelden I am surprised at how fast Amazon wants my money... stupid little cheap stuff takes weeks but the 10GB card for the 1522+ was here in a day. I just ordered a 10GB NIC for my PC and the 5 port 10GB switch and they say it will be here tomorrow (TP-Link brand)
@@TheCynysterMind I'm sure it's all logistics. In my case, I'm a fulltime RVer, and in an RV campground that won't accept mail. So I'm using an Amazon Locker. Interestingly enought, I'm REALLY close to Tucson, AZ, where I passed a GINORMOUS Amazon Distribution Center...but I'm still guessing that either a) they do better with shipping services than AMZ staff that can access the lockers or... (and let me check) b) Yep, RAM from Eastvale, CA, and ...okay, wow. the drives are coming from Goodyear, AZ.... well, not sure why THAT took so long. Arrives Monday, ordered ... grr 11/12, FIVE days ago.
Why suggest Nextcloud 'great scalability for large enterprises'. When synology already does most of this?
same - this is the exact question I had going through that segment
So the part of nextcloud that is really valuable is their plugins and other office features like voice and video calling
@@SpaceRexWill nice. Does Nextcloud contain an Office that’s compatible to docX etc?
I really like paperlessngx.
Im currently looking for a home wiki. To store all my private documents, privat project documents, ...
Like confluence
So this might not be exactly what you are looking for, but for me I use obsidian for that. There is a git plugin that I use to sync between all of my computers and phones. And it's pretty awesome. Great search, great ability to have linkings
When mom says "We have Donald Trump at home". Donald Trump at home: ...
I world have added Pi-hole especially compared to Gitea. Gitea is mostly for developers. Why not Home Assistant AND Homebridge. Homebridge can be plugged into Home Assistant 😉
Ignoring security implications of docker, nextcloud-aio container is absolute clusterfuck.
Really?
Where in the world do you speak English with such an accent ? Chew even more your words and it might look like an African language
5 AWESOME DOCKER CONTAINERS for Synology on what OS ? Windows, Unix, Linux, MAC, Android, iPhone ? WTF!
What...
Its Docker! OS don't matter
On Synology OS directly -> install Container Manager, and that is where you install your Docker Containers WTF? 🙂