In this guide I am going to take you through the setup of Plex in Container Manager. The version of this guide you follow will depend on whether you want hardware transcoding, this is available to Plex Pass holders and requires your Synology CPU to have Intel Quick Sync capabilities. Generally, if you are only using Plex at home with devices that can direct play your media you likely won’t need...
In this guide I am going to take you through the setup of Plex in Docker using Container Manager. You will only benefit from hardware transcoding if you have an active Plex Pass either monthly or lifetime. If you don’t have one you can either follow this guide or jump over to the non hardware transcoding version. Before we do anything else, you need to make sure your model of Synology has hardware...
In this guide I am going to take you through the setup of Jellyfin in Container Manager. Please note this guide is for anyone that does not have Hardware Transcode abilities on their NAS. You can see the other guide for those that do. As usual, it’s important you complete the three preceding guides which will get your folder structure, docker user and bridge network setup. Open up Docker within...
In this guide I am going to take you through the setup of Jellyfin in Container Manager using Docker Compose. Before we do anything else, you need to make sure your model of Synology has hardware transcoding capabilities. You need to do a quick lookup via the linked Google Sheet below, this is updated by Plex however it’s perfectly relevant for Jellyfin. If you find that your model does not...
Watchtower requires access to the Docker socket, we are unable to set this up via the Synology GUI. This means we will be using Docker-Compose. We will be setting up Watchtower using the Project functionality in Container Manager. This uses a compose file to tell Docker how to set up the container and also define some preferences. Let’s start by getting a couple of folders set up for the container...
Bazarr links to your Radarr and Sonarr setup and will automatically find and download matching subtitles for your media, this is useful if you are looking for an alternative language or when subs were not included with the original file. In this guide I will take you through the steps to get Bazarr up and running in Docker. In order for you to successfully use this guide please complete the two...
Readarr is an e-book and Audiobook collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new books from your favourite authors and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. In this guide I will take you through the steps to get Readarr up and running in Docker. In order for you to successfully use this guide please complete the...
Lidarr is used to search, download and organise your Music in conjunction with your preferred Usenet or Torrent downloaders and indexers. In this guide I will take you through the steps to get Lidarr up and running in Docker. In order for you to successfully use this guide please complete the three preceding guides Open up Container Manager within DSM and navigate to the ‘Registry’ tab and search...
Deluge is a lightweight torrent downloader, it has a number of built-in plugins to help organise your downloads and a full web interface, GlueTUN is the Docker container that has pre-configured VPN connections for numerous VPN providers. Before you start check the GlueTUN Wiki to see if your provider is on the supported list on the right-hand side. In this guide I will take you through the steps...
Over the next couple of weeks I will be updating all the guides across the site for the latest version of DSM and the brand new Container Manager. Due to the large number of changes in both the UI and the great addition of Projects (Docker Compose) to the UI this will make using Docker easier. I will be publishing the updates in the order of popularity, once updates are completed new guides will...