Synology

I recently bought a new Synology NAS (!) , the brand new DS923+ and as always it comes from the factory with a tiny 4GB RAM so as with all my other NASes, it was time for an upgrade. How to upgrade The process is the same as I did before, but I will show you some pictures to bring you confidence that it can be done What to buy Ok, you need to decide first how much memory you want and the same rule applies now as it did then: You can never have too much RAM, so buy...

On a previous post I showed you how to install Python 3.9 and virtual environments on your Synology. On this post, we are going to learn how to schedule them! Upload python script to your virtual environment We finish our previous post with the creation of the virtual environment, now we need to add our python script to our project folder: Schedule your script To schedule our script we are going to create a Task. Go to Control Panel >Task Scheduler: And create a Scheduled Task > User defined Script: And give it a name and make sure the user...

One of the advantages of installing python in your Synology is that you can write and schedule python scripts. In this post I will show you how to get python 3.9 running, but in a future post I will show you how to schedule it. Enable Home for all users First, lets enable home for all users. That is where your python scripts will reside. Enable SSH I recommend you to disable SSH when you are done because it disables 2 factor auth and makes your synology more vulnerable. Go to Control Panel > Terminal & SNMP > Terminal tab: Check “Enable...