Synology NAS - Docker Help

[jb7764]

I just successfully transfered drives to new NAS. But Channels will not open now, likely because the new NAS has a different IP than the old one. What is best way to address that? Note - since drives were migrated to new NAS, it has the same DNS name, but different IP. And NAS has a setting option to internally/manually change IPv4

Go to router and allocate IP of old NAS to new one? If so, just assign it, and restart the NAS? Or is there a way to change Channels to new NAS IP? Or do I have to reload Channels maybe? Or maybe there is another way I am not aware of...? Thanks!

[chDVRuser]

Most likely this

@chDVRuser

Re-configuring package settings is required after migration. Original package data and tasks are lost.

You can make a dhcp reserved IP address for your new nas on your router. A change in IP address shouldn't affect running Channels DVR.

[jb7764]

I reserved old IP, but still had to reinstall Channels and restore a backup. Was easy. All works fine. Now to figure out this "docker thing." lol. Do you have a link to a "how to" page to create and setup the new channel sources via Container Mgr in Synology? Like where/how to run the command to create new playlists? I don't understand how a command is an image? Thanks.

[chDVRuser]

If you don't understand docker and don't want to spend the time to learn it, I recommend using this.

Project One-Click: All-in-One Installations of Docker Extensions and CDVR Custom Channels

Now that there are a host of excellent Docker-based extensions for Channels DVR, @mjitkop and @bnhf thought it was about time we had an excellent way to install them! Specifically, an all-in-one "one-click" approach that would spin-up the container and do the Custom Channels setup as well. OliveTin and Portainer were perfect for this project, and are prerequisites. OliveTin provides the user interface for the minimal set of values you need to provide and Portainer, with its API, allows for the …

You just have to install one docker container, Portainer, and it will do the rest.
The instructions are in his first post.
Follow-up in that topic if any questions.

[jb7764]

I have installed Portainer. Not doing Olive Tin yet (since I am already overwhelmed). Do you have a link on how to use Portainer, for example, to install the Samsung TV image created recently? I need step-by-step (like where to run the command, and if I need to create container/image or both before. I am not a programmer.) Also, I do see the Samsung image in Synology Container lookup. Same thing? Settings for adding?

[chDVRuser]

Create a stack for it in Portainer using bnhf's compose statement and environment variables

A docker-compose for every Channels-related extension -- suitable for Portainer-Stacks!

I've just updated my docker-compose examples, in OliveTin-for-Channels, for the many excellent container projects that are suitable for use with Channels -- via the WebUI for Docker -- Portainer. I thought I'd post them here as well, for anyone not using OliveTin yet. The idea with the way these yamls are structured, is that you shouldn't need to do ANY editing of the yaml itself, all installation specific values should be set via the environment variables in that section of Port…

Learn how to use your tool of choice (Portainer or Docker Compose or Docker command line)