Other iPhone / Synology

[gigapocket1]

Anyone use their iPhone and iPad paired with a Synology NAS? I recently bought one for the house and I do like it. I’m weary of moving all my photos over to it and basically nixing the iCloud photo experience. Wondering if any of you all have done it and what’s the experience like etc.. I have about 750gigs worth of photos and video stored in iCloud. That I def will slowly move over to my NAS anyway. Just wondering about day to day access. When away etc. is it worth it? How’s the experience? When you are away from Wi-Fi. Etc.

 

[adamjackson]

Their iPhone apps are pretty weak. DS Cloud I can't get to update in the background so when I open it on iPhone it has to re-sync every changed file and takes up quite a bit of space on my phone. The cloud bit I'm backing up my photos in Synology's Moments application (via web/intranet) but it's way too slow (due to Synology's I/O & CPU) that I still primarily rely on iCloud photos.

Synology has allowed me to drop DropBox Pro which is nice. I also was able to drop Basecamp and use the built in Wiki and I do now use it for shared contacts, folders, our household uses multiple shared folders with the good-enough Mac apps to keep folders in sync but on iOS, it needs a lot of work to replace iCloud Photos.

 

[Kung]

^ What adamjackson said. I mean, they work, but as he said, they don't update in the background and it's pretty slow. I utilize my Synology for two things:

- as a NAS (duh) for my home computers
- remote access (I registered my now unused domain name to it and am utilizing an SSL cert to secure communications to it) in case I need something on the go.

IMHO it just doesn't work as an iCloud replacement. A backup, maybe, but not a replacement.

 

[gigapocket1]

I figured that was the case. But just was wondering if anybody had anything working solutions or insights.. I won’t waste my time
[doublepost=1568300507][/doublepost] I was mainly wondering so that I would know what storage iPhone to get. I currently have a 512 Max and was thinking about getting a 256 Pro Max if I could pull it off with the Synology. but even just looking at the numbers above... if I remove all my photos from my phone. I’ll still be at 200gigs usage.
which is ridiculous now that I look at it. Lol

 

[CG2382P]

I use the app PhotoSync to sync photos to my synology NAS automatically when I am GPS located at home. I sync it via WebDAV to a particular location on my NAS. I also use iCloud but I wanted a separate copy to store locally.

 

[Kung]

I use the app PhotoSync to sync photos to my synology NAS automatically when I am GPS located at home. I sync it via WebDAV to a particular location on my NAS. I also use iCloud but I wanted a separate copy to store locally.

Well, that prompts a follow up question. I've got the whole iCloud thing set up on my home laptop. If I'm not mistaken, that already syncs what's in iCloud (and what I've got selected) to my profile on that computer.

Assuming that's the case, the Synology should already back that up without me needing to use Photosync to sync photos to my NAS, correct?