 SynoDS: Synology DL Station on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch

[Sylver]

I have a problem that occurs on both iPad and iPhone. When I browse to a page with many links (like my oron account), long press and download only works for the first few links (from the top of the page). Links further down allow me to click on them, but they just open, without letting me choose to download. Is this a known issue?

Thanks for a great app, I use it every day!

This is a bug due to some iOS 5 changes ! It's corrected in next update (which is in review by apple staff right now).
It should be available very soon

[Sylver]

SynoDS v1.9 is now available !!!
Enjoy iCloud sync, bugfixes and new features

[Sylver]

SynoDS v1.9.1 is available. It's a hotfix for a crash that can occur when refreshing some RSS feeds.

[bluethree]

Can I apologise for being thick first and foremost.

I live in the UK and have a BT HomeHub3 ADSL router / modem.
I have a DYNDNS account.
My DiskStation DS411 is set with a static IP address.

I can access my DS on my internal LAN no problems and love it however can somebody
please point me to a sticky or otherwise help me set up my configuration for remote access
in respect to:

1. Changes needed for my DiskStation
2. Changes for my router
3, Settings for SynoDS

Sorry for hassle here but love this app and want to really use it away from home.

[Lt Templeton Peck]

Just brought the app and I have to say I absolutely love it!

Have found one very minor bug, I am unable to rename some of my added bookmarks. I change the name and it doesn't stick when returning to the web tab.

Thanks. Great app.

[Michielr]

Hi Sylver, I'm new to your app. One of the things I read in a review in the app store was that this app allows streaming of video. Can you tell me if this is correct and if so, how to get this working.
Thnx Michiel

[kas23]

First, I love your app. I have already reviewed it and have given it 5 stars.

My question: this may have been answered over the last 25 pages, but is there anyway to allow downloading of partial torrents (to allow us to pick and choose the content of the torrent to download)?

[MyZ]

Great app!

There's a little bug though:

When the app is running in the background and @ the downloads page, if you open a torrent file from Safari it will add it multiple times and the app hangs.

Keep up tha good work!

[Arito]

Can I apologise for being thick first and foremost.

I live in the UK and have a BT HomeHub3 ADSL router / modem.
I have a DYNDNS account.
My DiskStation DS411 is set with a static IP address.

I can access my DS on my internal LAN no problems and love it however can somebody
please point me to a sticky or otherwise help me set up my configuration for remote access
in respect to:

1. Changes needed for my DiskStation
2. Changes for my router
3, Settings for SynoDS

Sorry for hassle here but love this app and want to really use it away from home.

I have the exact same. I can use the app on my wifi no problem but outside of my home network I can't login. What are you all using as the IP address? Just the IP you see when you go to http://www.whatismyip.com right? Port still 5000?

[Arito]

First check the IP of your Synology NAS, and your public IP (the one you are connected to the internet with, http://www.ip-adress.com/ could help you to find it). Note : make sure that Synology's device IP will not change ! For this, either use static IP in Synology's configuration or enable DCHP reservation by MAC address in your router.
For exemple purposes, we will use 192.168.1.23 for Synology's device IP and 12.34.56.78 as a public IP !

Now open your router configuration page (check your router user guide for how to do it).
In your router configuration page, configure NAT forwarding (also called port forwarding). In this exemple I'll configure the router so the Synology device will be available when connection to 12.34.56.78 at port 1234 :
As local IP address, set 192.168.1.23 and as local port set 5000 (or 5001 if you plan to use SSL), as public port set 1234. If you have specific configuration for both TCP and UDP protocols, fill both protocols with the same informations !

You may have to reboot your router for the new configuration to be applied !

Now use your web browser and check that you can connect to http://12.34.56.78:1234 (your public IP and public port), use https if you are using SSL. If everything if ok, then in SynoDS enter the following informations :
Address : 12.34.56.78 (your public IP)
Port : 1234 (your public port)
username/password
and SSL on or off depending on what you have configured previously

To add to my other post:

My external IP is: 178.85.253.6
The internal IP of my NAS is: 192.168.0.106

What I'm confused about is you mention a local and public port, but I only see one option in my router's settings to set a port number. So I tried it by opening two different port ranges but it doesn't seem to work.

I can connect to:
http://192.168.0.106:5000/
https://192.168.0.106:5001/

I can not connect to:
http://178.85.253.6:5000/
https://178.85.253.6:5001/

Any ideas?

(By the way I love the app on my internal network. Particularly the ability to add torrents directly from websites. If I can use it when I'm not home it would make it one of the best apps I have)

[BillieBox]

Great app thank you!

[Sylver]

First check the IP of your Synology NAS, and your public IP (the one you are connected to the internet with, http://www.ip-adress.com/ could help you to find it). Note : make sure that Synology's device IP will not change ! For this, either use static IP in Synology's configuration or enable DCHP reservation by MAC address in your router.
For exemple purposes, we will use 192.168.1.23 for Synology's device IP and 12.34.56.78 as a public IP !

Now open your router configuration page (check your router user guide for how to do it).
In your router configuration page, configure NAT forwarding (also called port forwarding). In this exemple I'll configure the router so the Synology device will be available when connection to 12.34.56.78 at port 1234 :
As local IP address, set 192.168.1.23 and as local port set 5000 (or 5001 if you plan to use SSL), as public port set 1234. If you have specific configuration for both TCP and UDP protocols, fill both protocols with the same informations !

You may have to reboot your router for the new configuration to be applied !

Now use your web browser and check that you can connect to http://12.34.56.78:1234 (your public IP and public port), use https if you are using SSL. If everything if ok, then in SynoDS enter the following informations :
Address : 12.34.56.78 (your public IP)
Port : 1234 (your public port)
username/password
and SSL on or off depending on what you have configured previously

To add to my other post:

My external IP is: 178.85.253.6
The internal IP of my NAS is: 192.168.0.106

What I'm confused about is you mention a local and public port, but I only see one option in my router's settings to set a port number. So I tried it by opening two different port ranges but it doesn't seem to work.

I can connect to:
http://192.168.0.106:5000/
https://192.168.0.106:5001/

I can not connect to:
http://178.85.253.6:5000/
https://178.85.253.6:5001/

Any ideas?

(By the way I love the app on my internal network. Particularly the ability to add torrents directly from websites. If I can use it when I'm not home it would make it one of the best apps I have)

You have to specify somewhere in your router that port xxx on ip 78.85.253.6 will lead to local address 192.168.0.106 on port 5000 ! You have to find how to achieve this on your router, no other way ! Try to google your router model with "port forwarding" to find some details on how to achieve this on your model ! You can send me a screenshot you the setting page of your router and I'll try to give the values to enter if you don't manage to find by yourself !

Next release of SynoDS will be submitted soon (with multiple file selection in the file browser for multiple file delete/copy/move)

[Arito]

You have to specify somewhere in your router that port xxx on ip 78.85.253.6 will lead to local address 192.168.0.106 on port 5000 ! You have to find how to achieve this on your router, no other way ! Try to google your router model with "port forwarding" to find some details on how to achieve this on your model ! You can send me a screenshot you the setting page of your router and I'll try to give the values to enter if you don't manage to find by yourself !

Next release of SynoDS will be submitted soon (with multiple file selection in the file browser for multiple file delete/copy/move)

Thanks for your response. I googled it and apparently its a different setting from what I thought. I only used port forwarding for allowing access to and from certain applications, but now I enabled virtual server and put the port forwarding there. It works good now! I'll post the pictures from my Sitecom router (I think its pretty common) in case it helps others with the same problem:





By the way, I really want to commend you on your participation in this thread! Thanks for that.

[remysix]

Hi Sylver,
First of all, I have been using this apps since IOS5 came out and loving it. Great work on coming up with this great apps.
Yesterday, I JBed my iphone4 and since then my SynoDS is keep on loading blank screen and minimized - still on the background but yet still blank even after a few retries. Already tried uninstalled it, reboot then reinstalled it but nothing works. I'm not sure which Cydia updates/apps that responsible for this or is it the JB itself made this apps rendered useless.
Just a few info: I'm running on IOS 5.0.1 JBed; ofcourse my SynoDS is legal since I already said I've used it on IOS5 before JBed my idevice yesterday. I have basically standard Cydia apps - Sbsetting, Winterboard, Gridlock, OpenSSH, iFile and a few more - not sure if it matters.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks

[Sylver]

Thanks for your response. I googled it and apparently its a different setting from what I thought. I only used port forwarding for allowing access to and from certain applications, but now I enabled virtual server and put the port forwarding there. It works good now! I'll post the pictures from my Sitecom router (I think its pretty common) in case it helps others with the same problem:

By the way, I really want to commend you on your participation in this thread! Thanks for that.

Thanks for posting the answer, if it can help someone in the future, it's great

Hi Sylver,
First of all, I have been using this apps since IOS5 came out and loving it. Great work on coming up with this great apps.
Yesterday, I JBed my iphone4 and since then my SynoDS is keep on loading blank screen and minimized - still on the background but yet still blank even after a few retries. Already tried uninstalled it, reboot then reinstalled it but nothing works. I'm not sure which Cydia updates/apps that responsible for this or is it the JB itself made this apps rendered useless.
Just a few info: I'm running on IOS 5.0.1 JBed; ofcourse my SynoDS is legal since I already said I've used it on IOS5 before JBed my idevice yesterday. I have basically standard Cydia apps - Sbsetting, Winterboard, Gridlock, OpenSSH, iFile and a few more - not sure if it matters.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks

Previous jailbreak (iOS3/iOS4) was not a problem for SynoDS. I'll try to jailbreak one of my iOS5.0.1 devices to check what's going wrong ! Sorry but I have no quick answer to workaround this as I don't know what is the issue right now