u/scowenho

Hello brain trust! ADT recently installed a google nest doorbell camera at my house and google nest cameras around the house. The salesperson straight up lied to me and told me that I would be able to send the feed from the cameras to my NAS. If someone knows a way to do this, I would appreciate some guidance.

What I'm more interested in right now though, is they installed a google nest doorbell camera that doesn't do the number 1 function of a door bell, ring the freaking door bell! My house doesn't have a hardwired door bell. The sales person was fully aware of this when I bought this stuff and didn't bother to tell me that this battery operated doorbell needs another device inside of the house to actually have the doorbell ring. OK fine. I will get a device. But I won't get any smart home device that will spy on me in the house. I'm looking for a dumb device that simply just talks to the nest doorbell and rings inside of the house. I would prefer it not to have any wifi ability so it won't ever try to phone home. I'm OK with bluetooth communication to the doorbell. I would like something that I can press a button and have a conversation with the person on the other side of the door. A video display so I can see the person on the other side of the door along with a button to talk to the person is an added bonus.

Do any of you have any recommendations? Thanks!!!

Hello! I have a question for the brain trust here.

Background: I've been using Plex for a while now and have had no issues with streaming to external devices. I've always owned my own router and cable modem so as to avoid monthly fees from Xfinity/Comcast. I wanted to start sharing my server with friends and family but before doing so, I needed to upgrade my internet plan to unlimited data so as not to hit my monthly cap and while I was at it upgrade to the 2GB plan. My modem and router needed to be replaced as they were very old and wouldn't support the new speed. I intended to buy new hardware but while I was on the phone with Xfinity they informed me that a new modem/router combo is included now and there aren't any more monthly fees. So I got their XB10 modem/router combo which supports 10gb LAN and Wifi 7. I regret it now but that is a whole different story.

Now on to the actual problem. After a little while, maybe anywhere from 5-15 minutes, remote access just stops working. Screen shot below. Restarting PMS, which runs on my NAS, doesn't help. Restarting the whole NAS doesn't help. Rebooting the modem/router does help! Once it is back up with internet access, the Plex server shows that remote access is working. I can then go on my phone, ensuring I'm not on wifi, and the plex app can get access to my PMS. Great! I did a quick test and played a video. Then a few minutes later remote access is broken again. Now I'm thinking that I need to look into port forwarding, which I never needed to do before, but maybe this new router needs it. Needless to say, this router is absolutely terrible and I cannot get port forwarding working, but that also is a whole different story. I'm curious if I even NEED port forwarding enabled. I mean if I needed this, it would never work and then fail, it just wouldnt work to begin with. Am I wrong here? I'm not a network guy but know enough to be dangerous but I'm pretty sure if I needed port forwarding, it would never work. Thoughts? Ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

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Hello all! I have a question regarding RAID. I've got an old Dell PowerEdge T410 with Xpenology running off of an ARC redpill USB boot disk. This has a Dell Perc RAID controller in it. Up to this point, since I had mixed sized SATA drives, I had configured each of the 6 drives into their own individual RAID 0 arrays. This would pass thru the drives to DSM. I don't know if this was absolutely necessary, but I saw people doing this, so I did that, and it worked to allow me to configure the 6 drives into SHR-1. Now, I've got 6 SAS drives that I want to replace the SATA drives with. They are all the same 6TB drives. I'd like to use the Dell Perc RAID controller to configure RAID 5 on these new drives and I did that. When I get into DSM to create a new Storage Pool and Volume it sees the RAID 5 volume as 1 drive, which is what I expected. The only options I see when trying to set this volume up are SHR, JBOD, and Basic. What do I choose here? Is there any reason, other than being able to mix drives sizes, that I would go back to making each drive with their own RAID 0 config and then using DSM to configure SHR-1?

Hello! I've tried creating an account on the Xpenology forum and the account creation process doesn't appear to be working. It does say you can post without an account and that doesn't appear to be working for me either, so here I am to ask a couple of questions. Hopefully someone can assist.

1. I recently picked up an old Dell PowerEdge T410 and have Xpenology up and running using the ARC Redpill loader with a USB flash boot drive. This T410 came with a RAID controller and has 6 hot-swappable drive bays and both the controller and bays support both SATA and SAS drives. I currently have all 6 bays populated with SATA drives. Since the drives are not all the same size, I didn't use the RAID controller to configure the RAID and used Synology's SHR-1 so I could use all my drives. I recently came into acquisition of a 6TB SAS drive. It got me thinking. I wonder if one of my 6TB SATA drives dies, can I replace it with this 6TB SAS drive with the understanding it would operate at SATA speeds? After searching around a bit for the answer to this, the general consensus is NO. And my interpretation of what I read was that Synology hardware either supports SATA or SAS, not both in the same device. So since the hardware doesn't support it, the answer is NO. At least that was my interpretation. But my hardware supports both SATA and SAS, so I'm hoping this will work. Has anyone tried this?

2. I currently have a single port 10GB NIC in the T410. I'd like to replace it with a dual port. If I get the same NIC but in a dual port configuration and swap them out, will it just work? If I can't find the same NIC, but get a different one, will DSM install the drivers? Would I need to reinstall Xpenology? Can I add drivers after the fact? And how to add drivers?

Thanks!!!!