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Get notifications and now images sent to your mobile from Home Assistant so you can keep an eye on your house. If you own a Synology NAS, this is a totally free notification option with no file limits. Awesome! No Android smart watch support for Chat just yet but hopefully that is coming soon. An example script that uses the platform is shown below - service: notify.hass_synochat data: message: "Pool Gate was opened" data: file_url: http://ipaddressofhass:8123/local/images/pool_gate.jpg N.B Ensure you turn off your phones battery optimisation feature for the Synology Chat app otherwise you won't get notifications coming through in near real time. Buy your Synology NAS here . Home Assistant Chat add-on here . Info on the Synology Chat platform is here .

I have a DS713+ that supports Docker and needed a way to install an iPerf3 server for WLAN testing. Fortunately, that is pretty easy. Activate SSH on your Synology so you can remote in. Using PuTTY, login as an admin user and type the following: sudo docker pull networkstatic/iperf3 (then type your admin password again)

I have lots of friends with various Kodi devices (NUC, Pi, Zbox etc.) and most with Synology NAS boxes but unfortunately, many also with media libraries that are a mess. Asked to get a house with three Kodi devices onto one central Synology based database, I wanted a way to export the media library preserving the watched state and another way to organise the media into separate folders.

Login using SSH/Telnet as 'root' with the admin user password and run the following command. ' fdisk -lu ' The first partition should start at 256, not 63 as shown in my example. You'll need a clean install of DSM in order to have the Diskstation automatically format your dives using the 4k advanced format . More info on data migration on the Synology website here .

An excellent post by Rob van Hamersveld from Holland can be found here . Remember, you no longer need to name the (video/music) database in your 'advancedsettings.xml' file as shown in Rob's post.

I have a Lenovo X220 running Windows 8/64 and a Synology DS712+. I use MakeMKV to backup my DVD's for storing on my NAS. My network consisted of two SMC Draft-N Access Points (at each end of the house) in bridge mode, all connected via a Gigabit switch.

There are lots of posts about the annoying '@eaDir' directories that are created when you use NFS on the Synology NAS. I've written about deleting them but unfortunately they end up coming back as they are part of the Synology indexing service.

Two excellent resources on that below. XBMC Wiki Rob van Hamersvelds excellent blog for all things Synology and XBMC

If you’ve enabled MediaServer and/or PhotoStation on your Synology NAS you might have noticed a bunch of “@eaDir” folders inside your data folders. You will not normally see this under samba or appletalk connections. via http://nerdlogger.com/2012/03/08/synology-nas-and-those-pesky-eadir-folders/

Your Synology Diskstation will text you if you set it up using the Clickatell SMS service (account required). Follow the Synology forum link below to benefit from problem reporting on the following events: http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=19799 The device will send alerts based on the following: Volume has crashed. (Including internal volume, DX5/RX4 or system volume) Volume has degraded. (Including internal volume, DX5/RX4 or system volume) DX5/RX4 no longer exists. Internal disk has crashed. DDNS registration failed. UPS has been disconnected. Internal fan stopped. DX5/RX4 fan stopped. The system has shut down due to overheating.

I love my Synology NAS, however one of its flaws is it creates these @eaDir directories that while in most cases are hidden, show up in XBMC when you connect using NFS. To avoid this issue; create a file ' advancedsettings.xml' in .xbmc/userdata folder with the following content.