Plex in ‘Container Manager’ on a Synology NAS – DSM 7.2 (No Hardware Transcoding)
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...
Synology: Portainer Docker Version 2.18.2
Plex in ‘Container Manager’ on a Synology NAS – DSM 7.2 (Hardware Transcoding)
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...
How to Install Plex With Hardware Transcoding on Your Synology NAS
Jellyfin in ‘Container Manager’ on a Synology NAS – DSM 7.2 (No Hardware Transcoding)
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...
Jellyfin in ‘Container Manager’ on a Synology NAS – DSM 7.2 (Hardware Transcoding)
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 – Automated Updates in ‘Container Manager’ on a Synology NAS – DSM 7.2
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...