Tag Archives: Synology

Home Assistant Migrated from Pi to Proxmox

Posted on 20 June 2025 by matthannan

I just powered down my old Home Assistant server after migrating everything to my Proxmox node.

I’ve been spending far too much time talking to ChatGPT over the past month or so. It started with some simple suggestions for cleaning up the weather dashboard page.… Read the rest

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Take Note

Posted on 12 September 2023 by matthannan

I am on my end of summer vacation and working through some psychic backlog items. Don’t get me started on Wireguard VPN. Grumble, grumble. But I am kind of relieved to have spent the morning screwing around with note applications again.… Read the rest

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One Note To Rule Them All (not the one you think)

Posted on 25 March 2023 by matthannan

Looking back at my web search history, I have been on a quest for several months now to find a note-taking application that checks a couple of very specific boxes and that I can use for documenting my home network (aka home lab) setup.… Read the rest

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Installing Unifi controller Docker container on Synology NAS – Thiago Crepaldi

Posted on 17 July 2021 by matthannan

Really, I used this just as a guide to update the Unifi controller in the Docker container. You could do that a time or two before it gets simple, which it is. Just a new way of doing things, I guess.… Read the rest

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Synology NAS VPN Server

Posted on 9 May 2021 by matthannan

It has been a long while since I wrote about VPN servers. This is because of the change of job, and then working from home for over a year because of COVID-19. But I have kept playing with the technology over the years.… Read the rest

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Beginning of the End? NTP Server Migration

Posted on 3 May 2021 by matthannan

A few weeks back, we had an unexpected power-outage at the house. As the Raspberry Pi does not natively have a real-time clock built into it, this plays havoc on the network. Somehow, NTP and DNS are linked in this space.… Read the rest

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The Tale of the Two NAS Boxes

Posted on 2 April 2021 by matthannan

Wow, what a run this was! I got tired of waiting for the WD MyBook or whatever it was called to be back in stock, so I started looking for better solutions. OpenMediaVault was not really getting things done for me.… Read the rest

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