I have long used Synology’s Network Attached Storage range of devices for both myself and some customers, not only to safeguard our documents but also as a surveillance device via their Surveillance Station plugin that is shipped with each NAS. Recently, Synology announced two cameras to the market that pair nicely with their Surveillance Station system. Considering that these new cameras don’t need an extra licence when used with a Surveillance Station and provide more functionality over the standard cameras I had used in the past, I thought it was time to get a pair to test out.
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Secure the SynoCommunity Mosquitto broker in 2023
Recently I was upgrading packages on my Synology NAS, with one of those packages being SynoCommunity Mosquitto Broker. Shortly after the upgrade, I noticed the MQTT based devices in my Home Assistant server went off-line. It was then I realised that the upgrade to 2.0.15 had reset the MQTT username and password. When I checked out my previous post on how to add a user and password to the SynoCommunity Mosquitto Broker, I noted that a few things have changed slightly with this latest version, so I will document the current process below.
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Home Assistant Backups to Synology NAS
If you have ever run Home Assistant for a while, you will understand the importance of regular backups that are kept off the system that is running Home Assistant. This is especially important for those who run their system off an SD card on a Raspberry Pi. While I have played with cloud backup plugins in the past, I have ended up removing them as I was not that happy with them. My recent backup regime results in me manually copying off the regular backups, which is a less than ideal situation. Fortunately, with the release of Home Assistant 2023.6 the option of saving your backups to a NAS drive is now an option. This new feature safely saves my Home Assistant’s backups to my NAS which is a totally separate system to my Home Assistant server. Read on to see how easy this is to set up with Home Assistant and a Synology NAS.