January 17, 2025

How to Install Video Duplicate Finder on Your Synology NAS

Video Duplicate Finder is a cross-platform software to find duplicated video (and image) files on hard disks based on similarity. That means, unlike other duplicate finders, this one also finds duplicates which have a different resolution, frame rate and even watermark. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Video ...
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January 17, 2025

How to Install Dawarich on Your Synology NAS

Dawarich is a self-hosted web app designed to replace Google Timeline (aka Google Location History). It enables you to: visualize your data on an interactive map, import your location history from Google Maps Timeline and Owntracks and explore statistics like the number of countries and cities visited, total distance traveled, and more. In this step ...
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January 16, 2025

Synology: Install Darktable With Portainer

My previous guide for Darktable involved the use of Task Scheduler. Today I’m offering a recommended and excellent alternative for installing the latest Darktable version via Portainer. Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them ...
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January 15, 2025

How to Install Eigenfocus on Your Synology NAS

Eigenfocus is a free Self-Hosted All-in-One Management App: Kanban Boards, Time Tracking & Focus Tools. With Eigenfocus, you can manage your personal and work projects in one place. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Eigenfocus on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. STEP 1 Please Support My work by ...
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January 14, 2025

mariushosting Facebook Group At Over 75K Members

It’s January 13, 2025 today and our Synology Facebook Group has reached 75K+ members! In two weeks it’ll be the Chinese New Year and our community of NAS enthusiasts will have grown even more. 75 thousand people have already joined our Facebook group and are part of our dedicated Synology community. I would like to take ...
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January 13, 2025

How to Install Compose Craft on Your Synology NAS

Compose Craft is a tool to help you manage, edit and share docker compose files in a GUI way. Bring your own docker compose files with instant process time and drag and re-order components. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Compose Craft on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. ...
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January 11, 2025

How to Install OpenHands on Your Synology NAS

OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is a platform for software development agents powered by AI. OpenHands agents can do anything a human developer can: modify code, run commands, browse the web, call APIs. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install OpenHands on your Synology NAS using Docker & Portainer. STEP 1 Please ...
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January 10, 2025

How to Install Tianji on Your Synology NAS

Tianji is an open-source project dedicated to providing robust and efficient solutions for data integration and management. One sentence to summarize: Tianji = Website Analytics + Uptime Monitor + Server Status. You can use Tianji on your Synology NAS as an alternative to Plausible, Umami, Medama, Matomo and Uptime Kuma. In this step by step guide ...
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January 9, 2025

How to Install Paperless-AI on Your Synology NAS

Paperless-AI is an automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API and Ollama (Mistral, llama, phi 3, gemma 2) to automatically analyze and tag your documents. It features: Auto mode, Manual Mode, Ollama and OpenAI, a Chat function to query your documents with AI, and a modern and intuitive Web interface. In this step by ...
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January 9, 2025

mariushosting.com Reaches its Sixth Anniversary

Today is mariushosting’s 6th anniversary. Exactly 6 years ago, on January 9, 2019, mariushosting.com went live. It all started when I got a Synology NAS and wanted to put it to good use. Alas, there wasn’t much useful information available for what I wanted to do with my newly-acquired NAS – and so began this ...
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