Setup Synology NAS

Summary Steps

1. Create synology user (Control Panel – User)
2. Establish Synology Account online
3. Enable SMB (Control Panel – File Services)
4. Configure QuickConnect (Control Panel – Network -General)
5. Name NAS server (Control Panel – Network -General)
6. Create DDNS and SSL Certificate
7. Set ports and auto redirect
8. Forward router ports
9. Enable SSH Service (Control Panel – Terminal & SNMP)
10. Enable firewall (Control Panel – Security -Firewall)

Setup Home Assistant

1. Create homeassistant and config subfolders
2. Setup Reverse Proxy with websocket headers and read timeout 86400 (Control Panel – Application Portal – Reverse Proxy)
3. forward router port identified in HA configuration.yaml

• HA Reference

Setup Docker

1. Install Docker (Package Center)
2. Download docker images (docker registry)
3. Create docker-compose files
4. run docker compose

sudo docker-compose up -d