March 2026 has been an intense month, full of major updates, a few disappointments, and plenty of real talk from the self-hosted world. The good news is that Dockhand continues to grow incredibly day after day. What started as a breath of fresh air has become the preferred Docker management tool for thousands of us … Read more about Synology: Huge Docker Container Updates March 2026
Metadata Remote (mdrm) is a modern, open-source web-based metadata editor designed for managing large music collections on headless servers. It offers a clean, user-friendly interface for editing audio file metadata, featuring intelligent metadata inference and edit history memory. With bulk editing capabilities, it simplifies the process of organizing and updating metadata for extensive music libraries, … Read more about How to Install Metadata Remote on Your Synology NAS
My previous guide for openHAB involved the use of Task Scheduler. The open Home Automation Bus is an open source, technology-agnostic home automation platform which runs as the center of your smart home. It has the ability to integrate a multitude of other devices and systems. openHAB includes other home automation systems, (smart) devices and other technologies … Read more about Synology Install openHAB With Portainer
Luanti previously known as Minetest, is an open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server. Is Minecraft better than Luanti? The main difference are the goals. While Minecraft is a proprietary sandbox/survival game, Luanti is a … Read more about How to Install Minetest on Your Synology NAS
Beszel is a lightweight server resource monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats, and alerts. Much smaller and less demanding than leading solutions, Beszel will be one of your favorite Docker containers. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Beszel on your Synology NAS using Docker and Portainer. STEP … Read more about How to Install Beszel on Your Synology NAS
With the arrival of the new DSM 7.2 and DSM 7.3 operating system, Synology has revamped Docker by renaming it Container Manager. One of the more prominent new features of this update is the ease with which containers that you have previously installed, and that use the :latest or :nightly tag, can be updated with … Read more about Synology: How to Update Containers in Container Manager