My grandparents have Synology NAS, what would you deploy for their use?
from xelar@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 06:17
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They have Synology NAS, but they wait when I set up some stuff. They have images on one of the drives and we were able to display via network on old tv, but I feel like more stuff could be added.

They talked about cameras in the future too.

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Brkdncr@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 06:27 next collapse

Drive is nice.

The photos mobile app is OK.

Jellyfin on the native docker app works.

halcyoncmdr@piefed.social on 25 Jun 08:00 next collapse

Jellyfin on the native docker app works.

And if it’s a model without docker capability built in (most of the lower end ones they remove docker support), docker can usually be side loaded fairly easily.

rbos@lemmy.ca on 25 Jun 11:44 collapse

I can’t imagine the video transcoding is very good. Is that an issue?

Brkdncr@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 13:12 collapse

It depends. Some have CPUs with iGPU. If you enable hardware support it’s fine for about two streams. Also, transcoding isn’t needed a whole lot. Most devices support native formats.

comrademiao@piefed.social on 25 Jun 07:01 next collapse

Honestly running anything that isn’t Synology made on their devices is a pain. Also, without knowing how old the device is, it’s also a challenge to make a recommendation. As the other user replied Jellyfin is a good one, can run music, movies and tv, and home media too.

Stash is also a good one for grandpa

one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 17:02 collapse

I disagree. Docker containers are pretty easy to set up on it, though I admit that the small memory sucks in terms of performance.

Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 25 Jun 07:02 next collapse

I feel grandparents will be most interested in a nice photo solution. So something like Immich with it setup on their phones.

comrademiao@piefed.social on 25 Jun 09:09 collapse

Immich is certainly the best photo experience but how does it handle on Synology devices?

Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 25 Jun 09:39 next collapse

No idea. That’s why I wrote “like Immich”. :)

joat_mon@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 10:18 collapse

I run Immich, along side about 10 other services, on my DS420+, and it runs great imo. The initial import of all my photos (40,000+) did take a long time but now that it’s up and running it’s more than quick enough.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 12:21 next collapse

This guy does a lot with Synology NAS:

mariushosting.com/how-to-install-immich-on-your-s…

bagelberger@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 14:06 collapse

every time I try to install Immich on my Synology it freezes the entire machine due to straining CPU and RAM resources. it’s probably due to the machine learning model, but I’ve given up on it for now

HandMadeArtisanRobot@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 14:48 next collapse

Yeah, I had the same issue, but I did get it running. I disabled ML, and set most tasks to use a batch size of one. Later I bumped some of them back up.

bagelberger@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 16:19 collapse

good to know it’s possible, I’ll try your suggestion. I’ve also heard you can offload the machine learning to a GPU on your network, might have to give that a shot

HandMadeArtisanRobot@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 17:54 collapse

Yup, I did exactly that. I’ll probably just move Inmich to a mini PC or something eventually

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 15:24 collapse

Synology

I’ve never had a Synology so I don’t know. I have 5 really old 4 bay ReadyNAS filled with 10 TB drives, and you can’t install really anything but maybe SMB and CouchPotato which has more than likely been superseded by something far better.

one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 16:58 collapse

Probably an *arr stack, nextcloud, and tailscale.