Migrating CDVR and Project containers from Synology NAS to Mac Mini M4?

[chDVRuser]

I'm able to install CDVR as a user agent, but have a couple issues with that.
Trying to figure out how to make it work as a system service writing to a shared Synology SMB folder.

Run multiple Channels DVR Servers natively on Mac OS?

I currently have a couple issues running just one CDVR server on macOS Tahoe 26.2. I cannot set the user to autologin since I have File Vault enabled. Guess I'll have to disable File Vault. I'm getting prompted to authorize local network access for CDVR each time I update CDVR. Would running it as a system service get around this? I was going to test running it as a system service instead of a user agent, but I can't figure out how to automount my shared Synology SMB folder (used for DVR re…

[odtv]

I'm curious how you ended up architecting your project and whether there were any gotchas.

I'm considering a similar migration of my Docker/Portainer setup from a Synology to the Mac mini that already runs my CDVR on bare metal.

I currently run ADBTuner in the Portainer but am trying to add OliveTin. I've attempted to configure OliveTin on the Synology but run into issues configuring it: the mini doesn't really want to let OliveTin access the DVR and CHANNELS_DVR shares and I get 500 errors when deploying OliveTin.

Rather than fight the mini's lack of sharing...I'm thinking I should move my Docker/Portainer setup to the mini so everything is within a single user instance.

Is that how you have it setup? Is it working well for you?

Thanks for any insight you can provide....

[chDVRuser]

I gave up moving my seven Channels DVR servers and supporting docker containers to my Mac Mini M4. They're still running on my Synology NAS.

[Morris_Altman]

There is an old saying. "Don't fix what's not broken."

[odtv]

Oh! That's not the answer I was expecting. lol.

Would you recommend against running Docker on the Mac?

I don't really want to change my working setup but seems like OliveTin needs easy access to the DVR shares and (best I can tell) the Mac doesn't want to be that kind of server.

My options are:

1. Move docker/portainer to Mac
2. Move DVR to Synology
3. Move everything to a windows box with the right specs

[chDVRuser]

@odtv

Would you recommend against running Docker on the Mac?

No.
It just wouldn't work the way I wanted it to. I was expecting everything to run on the Mac as a background service and not have to set my Mac to auto login my user when it booted. I didn't want to spend any more time than I did trying that.

[odtv]

I was able to install OliveTin EZ-Start yesterday, used that to install Portainer and the full version of OliveTin which found the DVR folders on the mini just like I hoped.

Have now installed ADBTuner and FruitDeepLinks and am puzzling through that setup.

OliveTin really makes it easy.