Anyone else going basic with their NAS?
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
Not me. I need nextcloud and jellyfin. I use nextcloud for my calendar, task, note, photos, contacts etc. Jellyfin, well, media.
I dont have gdrive, icloud, spotify stuff like that. So, i need to host it myself.
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
I used to. I once turned a laptop into a Windows media server just to host movies and music for the house. That was fun
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I like front ends so I have a record of what I have and have not played, and so I can easily pickup where I left off with series and playlists, but to each their own
I see! That makes sense. Thank you
What do you prefer using?
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Jellyfin, Immich, and Paperless-ngx are three of the apps I use the most but you do whatever works best for you. That's half the advantage of self hosting. You can have a solution that's custom tailored to your needs.
Absolutely!
What do you like about those that make your experience better?
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My NAS just stores, its my stack of tmm's that do all the heavy lifting.
Though I use a front end for everything, like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, kavita, etc.
What is a "tmm" stack? Sorry for my ignorance.
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Not me. I need nextcloud and jellyfin. I use nextcloud for my calendar, task, note, photos, contacts etc. Jellyfin, well, media.
I dont have gdrive, icloud, spotify stuff like that. So, i need to host it myself.
Makes sense! Thank you
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I assume you don't have a TV or a spouse?
No TV, yes spouse. She prefers playing media from the network folder just like me.
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I run my NAS that way too. I just mount it and play videos with VLC if I want to watch something I have on it. The main reason I have a NAS is because I ran out of drive bays in my main system a few years ago... Works fine for my needs currently; no need to make it more complicated.
I'm a fan of simplicity.
Which software do you use to run your NAS? I have TrueNAS scale.
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don't really get the whole NAS thing i must admit. Most of what I read about what people are doing is enabling slacker family and friends ? (That's not a critisism, just an observation)
I have a TV, a HDD connected on the router and Kodi on the Nvidia Shield Pro. Any music is stored on my phone, or streamed via Netradio
I very occasionally copy media across to my phone to watch and then... it sits there and I dont watch it.
My parter uses Kodi on the TV occasioanly.
I don't stream anything aside from some YT occasionally (DIY etc)
I get people do endless shit with their NAS, or server but I'm am retired and don't have the time
Books are managed via Calibre on a a Kobo.
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
No. I like my laptop to backup over the internet. I like my phone to use my nas for photos instead of Apple.
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
Yes. And No.
I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.
That was it.
Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos... so... it's technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it...
Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something... my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn't being used)
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I have much the same:
- Files on the network with NFS
- Kodi on an old laptop under the TV so we can watch said files.
- Syncthing on our phones and laptops to pull films from there onto that file server.
The only difference is that I'm using a Synology 'cause I have 15TB and don't know how to do RAID myself, let alone how to do it with an old laptop. I can't really recommend a Synology though. It's got too many useless add-ons and simple tools like rsync never work properly with it.
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
I’ve basically got everything thrown into a Samba share on Linux then most media is consumed via the Infuse app for iOS, macOS.
As for music, I have some lossless/hifi that I can stream via Apple’s Music app too.
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm one or those as well, but instead of VLC I use NOVA player on Android devices because of the remote sync.
Said that I'm using WebDAV shares as SMB is way slower. Is it just me? Any other protocol suggestion? -
Yes. And No.
I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.
That was it.
Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos... so... it's technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it...
Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something... my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn't being used)
Nice! Thank you for sharing your experience.
How did you get your NAS to know when it was being used?
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
Tbh setting up all cool frontends has always mystified me but I like minimal terminal interfaces and use stuff like MPD, Yazi, etc. and it seems like a pain to manage this big thing. I think the benefit really sets in when it's something you're sharing with others.
Like, I'd love to have all my documents in a folder written in pure markdown via vim, but hedgedoc helps me share and collaborate with my friends. A lot of people who operate these services share them with family, so I imagine ease of use helps. Tracking can be huge for people as well, but idk I just write down my episode list or have a separate tracker app.
Speaking of, Yamtrack is really good for that.
Overall, I feel like minimal UIs really help me focus instead of getting lost, but sharing my media via Jellyfin is one of the few reasons I want to do this in the first place. I like providing access to obscure media that's hard to get ahold of for my friends. So I'd say I'm a mix. Minimal stuff for myself, but interfaces for friend/external access.
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I have network storage. That's it.
I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.
I have 5TiB of media and I've never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?
Thanks all.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I have 5TiB of media and I’ve never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
I'm closing in on 80 and I feel a very strong need for one
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I have 5TiB of media and I’ve never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.
I'm closing in on 80 and I feel a very strong need for one
What are your reasons? Discovery / searching?
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Tbh setting up all cool frontends has always mystified me but I like minimal terminal interfaces and use stuff like MPD, Yazi, etc. and it seems like a pain to manage this big thing. I think the benefit really sets in when it's something you're sharing with others.
Like, I'd love to have all my documents in a folder written in pure markdown via vim, but hedgedoc helps me share and collaborate with my friends. A lot of people who operate these services share them with family, so I imagine ease of use helps. Tracking can be huge for people as well, but idk I just write down my episode list or have a separate tracker app.
Speaking of, Yamtrack is really good for that.
Overall, I feel like minimal UIs really help me focus instead of getting lost, but sharing my media via Jellyfin is one of the few reasons I want to do this in the first place. I like providing access to obscure media that's hard to get ahold of for my friends. So I'd say I'm a mix. Minimal stuff for myself, but interfaces for friend/external access.
Thanks for your experience.
It seems a common reason to set up a frontend is for family use. I suppose that is a logical extension of designing a system for its users - if someone wants to use it a certain way, they get to use it that way.
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What are your reasons? Discovery / searching?
Yep both, especially searchig for specific episode titles which are very often not included in the filenames. Or with anime, where many shows can have half a dozend different titles.
Also to keep track of what I watched and being able to easily resume watching on a different platform.
