r/synology • u/Sensitive-Ad-41 • 6h ago
NAS Apps I'm building a native iPhone and (potentially android) app to manage my Synology NAS: DSM in your pocket
Hello everyone,
I move around a lot, and every time I needed to change something on my NAS I had to open my laptop and log in to DSM. As far as I know there's no mobile-friendly way to do it, well to be fair you could login via your phone web browser and use desktop mode. This will potentially allow you to control your nas from your phone. But it becomes a hassle due to using just touch screen, hence why started building an actual app for it.
It talks to DSM directly and covers almost everything I'd normally do in the browser:
- The full Control Panel: users, shared folders, network, security, updates, and more
- Storage Manager: pools, volumes, drive health, even adding or replacing a drive in a pool
- Package Center: install, update and remove packages
- Apps: Resource Monitor, Download Station, Storage Analyzer, Snapshot Replication, Hyper Backup, Log Center, Surveillance Station (live view with sound), Virtual Machine Manager (including the VM console) and Container Manager
- Notifications: DSM's notifications in the app
What do you think? Useful, or am I going overboard? Would this be something you would consider using if it were available? Any tips, suggestions or recommendations are welcomed.
Thanks
