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Migrate Synapse from sqlite3 to PostgreSQL on Synology NAS

Introduction We assume that we alrerady have a running synapse Docker container and that that instance has been setup to use sqlite3 (the default setting). Creating PostgreSQL container We want to add this to the docker-compose file: postgres: container_name: postgres image: postgres ports: - 5438:5432 environment: - POSTGRES_

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Run a Matrix home server on Synology NAS

Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized communicationcan. It allows you to reate chatrooms, direct chats and chat bots, complete with end-to-end encryption, file transfer, audio/video calls, synchronised conversation history, formatted messages, read receipts and more. This idea is that you can make your own home server as

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Connect to Synology NAS via SSH using VSCode

Connect to the NAS using PuTTy A bit silly, but first you need to connect via SSH using PuTTy Edit TCP Forwarding Navigate to etc/ssh/ and edit the file sshd_config using vim (vim sshd_config). Press i to enter insert mode, then go down through the file until

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Migrate Home Assistant SQLite to MySQL in MariaDB container

Setting up MySQL database Create database named DB_HomeAssistant making sure it is of type utf8_bin Create user homeassistant and give it the correct privileges Converting db file to query sqlite3 home-assistant_v2.db .dump \ | sed -re 's/^PRAGMA .+OFF/SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=0/

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Personal finances with Firefly on Synology NAS via Docker

Introduction to Firefly Firefly III is an open-source personal finances manager. It was built by James Cole, and you can support the development on the platform here. James is also upkeeping a really good documentation which you can (should) explore. Creating a database for Firefly First and foremost, Firefly needs

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Self-host password vault with Bitwarden on Synology NAS via Docker

Creating a Bitwarden container Create the Bitwarden container where you usually keep your containers. In this example we will use /volume1/docker/bitwarden/. Access your NAS via SSH, and then create the docker container with the following setup: docker run -d \ --name=bitwarden \ --restart=always \ -v /volume1/docker/bitwarden/data/

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Run a Ghost blog on Synology NAS via Docker

Step 1: Setup domain name and DDNS We want to make sure that https://ghost.mydomain.com will reach our Synology NAS correctly. To do this, follow this tutorial. Step 2: Prepare Docker Open the Docker package, go on Registry and search for docker. Double click on it to download

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Connect custom subdomain to Synology NAS

Say you purchased a custom domain mydomain.com and you want to make sure it connects to your Synology NAS. This means that when you type nas.mydomain.com in your browser, you want the browser to reach the public ip address of your network. To figure out what your

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Setup Reverse Proxy on Synology NAS using Docker

If you are runnign multiple services on your Synology NAS and/or self-hosting multiple websites, you might want all of them to be reachable via https protocol, and therefore making sure that all of them have a valid SSL certificate. In order to do this, we can make use of

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Remove Abnormal User from Synology NAS

Some time ago the Synology Health Monitor started giving me a warning with error message "one or more abnormal users have been found in the authentication file". In my case it was a leftover from an old package I installed (Couchpotato) which created a user that was now

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Root access to Synology NAS via SSH

After setting up PuTTY, it is very easy to gain access to the NAS: Connect to the NAS Insert NAS username Insert NAS password After logging in, type sudo -i. This will allow to gain root access Insert password of root account login as: alex //1. alex@192.xxx.x.

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Gain SSH access to Synology NAS

Step 1: Allow SSH access Access Synology DSM Control Panel > Terminal & SNMP > Enable SSH service Take note of the SSH port (default: 6589) Press Apply Now the NAS is ready to be accessed via SSH. To do this it is necessary to use a free software called