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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Which Synology NAS is it, and can you install Container Manager on it? That might be the simplest option since your files are already on that device.

You can run jellyfin on a Synology device using Container manager, and then try it out with your phone and desktop (or even web browser) to see if you like it. There should be lots of guides out there for it.

Container Manager is basically a worse DockGE / Portainer by Synology. It should be sufficient for pasting in the Jellyfin docker compose, but if you wanted you could also run DockGE and do it that way.

I gather Plex is at least semi-commercial while Jellyfin is the open source but worse option.

I haven’t used Plex enough to judge, but from the comments I’ve seen it seems that Jellyfin is now on par with or better than Plex. There was also some news recently about them moving some core features (remote playback?) to the paid plans, so I imagine there will be more people moving over soon.

There are a lot of options for client side apps, and you might be able to find something specific to your setup

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s a Model DS218. I don’t see Container Manager in the software center for it. Apparently there’s some hack workaround for this but…meh.

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- otter@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh interesting, I didn’t know that was a thing
  
  www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1bapfkl
  
  The armv8 architecture which the DS218 uses is supported by Container Manager, Synology just put a hardcoded config into the official package to exclude certain models from installing it:
  
  exclude_model=“synology_rtd1296_ds118 synology_rtd1296_ds218 synology_rtd1296_ds218play synology_rtd1296_ds418 synology_rtd1296_ds418j synology_armada37xx_ds119j synology_rtd1296_rs819”
  
  Pretty sure the github.com/…/ContainerManager_for_all_armv8 linked above just removes the hardcoded exclusion and doesn’t need to change anything else to get it to work.
  
  If that workaround looks shady, you might be better off just installing docker directly
  
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  - captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Docker also isn’t available in the package manager for this thing, probably for similar arbitrary reasons; unless it would need to be side loaded.
    
    I’m not buying another commercially made NAS after this one dies/is remotely bricked by Synology.
    
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