One of the nicest surprises of 2026 is undoubtedly Dockhand, the tool that’s quickly replacing Portainer and has delivered a real quality leap in our home self-hosted lab. Dockhand keeps getting better at an impressive pace: every update fixes annoying bugs and brings genuinely useful features for serious self-hosters. Its killer feature? It’s free. Meanwhile … Read more about Synology: Huge Docker Container Updates January 2026
Radarr is a movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new movies and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of existing files in the library when a better quality format becomes … Read more about How to Install Radarr on Your Synology NAS
Filled with emotion, you have unboxed your new Synology NAS. You’ve prepared your new disks and are trying to install the DSM operating system. But your disks are not recognized or detected… It doesn’t matter whether you have HDD or SSD disks installed because you too might find yourself dealing with this problems. In this … Read more about Synology: HDD/SSD is Not Detected/Recognized
Do you know how to activate your email notifications on your DSM operating system? Well, after yesterday’s article where I explained how to activate DSM notifications on your mobile phone, today I will teach you how to activate DSM notifications via email. STEP 1 Please Support My work by Making a Donation. STEP 2 If … Read more about Synology: How to Activate Email Notifications
First of all you need to know that your Synology temperature may be affected by several more or less important factors that I will address below. Synology Nas system temperature status is indicated by green or orange lights. Green: The system temperature status is normal. Orange: Your Synology Nas temperature is too high. If the … Read more about What’s a Good Operating Temperature For My Synology?
On January 28, 2026, Dockhand switched from version 1.0.12 to the new 1.0.13 version. Dockhand fixes the following issues and adds new options: New – Add DISABLE_LOCAL_LOGIN env var to hide local password login when SSO/LDAP is configured New – Add ntfy authentication support (user:pass@host/topic format) New – Sortable health column in containers grid (unhealthy … Read more about Synology & UGREEN: Dockhand Docker Version 1.0.13