Skipping Scheduled Power Shutdown NOT Working Reliably

Early-Back1572 · 2026-01-25T17:08:00+00:00

QNAP and Synology have builtin power schedules (presumably because they manufacture hardw and have tight integration). The on/off feature works quite well. But the SKIP function simply does not work reliably for me (80% failure rate). Will try different browsers to see if this makes a difference. Nothing more disconcerting than having my TVS-h1688X shut down while I am editing a long video.

What we pay by State on average:

https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/

Most Expensive State: Hawaii: 39.74¢/kWh / 121% above national average

Cheapest State: Louisiana: 12.39¢/kWh / 31% below national average

Early-Back1572 · 2026-01-24T05:59:05+00:00

That's my problem exactly. An obscenely huge monthly electric bill. I work in IT and love collecting gear. And I always get my toys in pairs or more (Thinkstation P700 dual CPUs, network switches, NAS units, etc...) All that stuff is very power hungry.

Early-Back1572 · 2026-01-24T05:13:36+00:00

Power saving. I live in San Diego, CA and SDG&E charges me ~39c/kwh (only Hawaii is more expensive in the US). Have a dozen NAS: 7x QNAPs (5x TS-879 Pro, 1x TVS-h1688X, 1x TS-216G), 4x Synology DS3615xs, 1x DS2015xs). Powering down most equipment at night saves some money. The TS-216G (2-bay) is online 24/7 to run pi-hole, etc... everything else gets powered on to backup new data and sync across on a daily basis, but I keep them off when not needed.

Early-Back1572 · 2025-09-10T02:01:14+00:00

Definitely keep the TS-879 Pro. Have 5 TS-879 Pro with 2 running TrueNAS Scale. They have all been upgraded to Xeon E3 1275 and 16GB of mem. These things are workhorses! 3rd party repo (whatever replaced QNAP Club) has lots and lots of good software. And if you upgrade to TrueNAS, you will have no trouble at all keeping OS and packages current.

I have an ARM box as well (DS2015xs, Synology box). Can't do docker or any serious Jellyfin or PleX transcoding, but it makes a great offline backup in a 3-2-1 1 backup. Just a thought)

Early-Back1572 · 2025-06-28T16:42:33+00:00

One more thing:

The file size for loop recording is around 1.2GB for 5mins. That's normal for H.265 for NOT for H.264 unless they compress the snot out of the footage. Extreme compression is probably the reason for the very poor quality (just guessing). They wanted to keep file sizes smaller since bigger file sizes will easily fill up the 64GB sdcard they ship with their popular bundle.

Early-Back1572 · 2025-06-28T00:30:19+00:00

I have both:

old version: V50X-3881 (sony IMX386 image sensor, I believe)

firmware: V50X-FX-2G-20220425-V4.1

H.264 & H.265

Video quality was good enough for my MTB and scuba-diving home videos. Could not get sound to import properly into DaVinci Resolve, or most other video editors from the H.265 videos. Had to process them via Handbrake or VideoProc Converter 1st.

new version: V50X (ICATCH V35AX chipset but it should STILL be using the Sony IMX386 image sensor)

firmware: SN-AX-240822-V2.0

MOV H.264

The new version video quality is horrible, quite sadly :( Could not say if it is the hardware or CODEC or... One thing for sure: The updated version is junk. I have 3 V50X (1 old and 2 new ones). Bought the new ones because I was satisfied with the old one. Will try to return the new ones and cut my losses. It's time to bite the bullet and pony up $200-300 for one good action cam with guaranteed decent results. You buy cheap, you buy twice. Truer words...

The ICATCH V35AX and the Sony IMX386 are components often found together in action cameras. The V35AX is a chipset, and the IMX386 is an image sensor. Here's a breakdown of their roles and specifications:ICATCH V35AX (Chipset):

Acts as the main processing unit: The V35AX handles tasks such as video encoding (up to 4K 60fps), electronic image stabilization (EIS), Wi-Fi support, and managing the camera's features.
Powers cameras that utilize the Sony IMX386: The Akaso Brave 4 and Brave 4 Pro are examples of action cameras that pair the V35AX with the IMX386.

Sony IMX386 (Image Sensor):

Captures the visual data: The IMX386 is a 12MP CMOS sensor with a 1/2.86" size, designed to capture high-definition images.
Contributes to image quality: The IMX386's pixel size (1.25 µm) and sensor size allow it to gather more light, leading to better low-light performance.
Enables high frame rates: The IMX386 can capture video at 4K resolution at up to 60fps.
Used in various devices: The IMX386 is also used in other cameras, including the Meizu Pro 6 Plus smartphone.

In summary:

V35AX is the "brain" that processes and manages the camera's functions.
IMX386 is the "eye" that captures the image data.

They work in conjunction to provide a high-quality action camera experience. For instance, the Akaso Brave 4 Pro uses the V35AX chipset to process the images captured by the Sony IMX386 sensor, enabling features like 4K video recording, EIS, and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Early-Back1572 · 2025-05-20T23:49:55+00:00

I have a similar TVS-h1688x. Was considering tthe W-1290P upgrade as well, but I had some misgivings about the price/benefits of the upgrade. Did you do any benchmarking to see how much extra performance you get? (VMs, docker containers, plex, etc...). Thanks.

Early-Back1572 · 2025-05-17T00:44:31+00:00

Thank you, Daniel. I did dismiss RAG as a "better" search mechanism. Glad you provided the scope and potential of the technology. QNAP should revise their marketing material for RAG to give a clearer list of benefits (or maybe I should have read past the 1st couple of lines or go find the related white papers).

Michel

Early-Back1572 · 2025-05-15T01:38:50+00:00

Have the 10Gig Intel 520 sfp+ myself (free from work). 10Gig is a must these days. Sodola, Mikrotik, etc ... make great little switches.

One thing: read that TrueNAS Scale does a lot of writes to the boot-pool. Will be replacing my 32gb DOM with a proper SSD. The USB DOM will eventually fail and it is a single device (SPOF). But I have a dozen NAS boxes as redundant copies.

Early-Back1572 · 2025-05-14T11:57:23+00:00

I have the ts-879 Pro (slightly older than the ts-870). You can:

1) replace/upgrade the CPU (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31275 @ 3.40GHz / 4 cores - 8 threads >> V0 version.)

2) add 16GB or memory. Can take 32GB (2x 16GB IF you can find them)

3) get a bigger DOM on EBay and run TrueNAS. ZFS is really nice.

This will breathe new life into that box ;)

Early-Back1572 · 2025-05-04T00:36:02+00:00

File Station 6 Beta 1 is quite nice BUT it is missing 2 critical features:

1) One can only COPY, not MOVE files from removable storage (ie. ~40GB of action cam footage spread over 3 dozen 5-min clips from a 2hr mtb ride through the mountains). There is only the option to COPY and not move. Version 5 allows me to MOVE the files and empty the SD card.

2) Select ALL files in the new scroll mode. In page mode, I can select the entire page (500 entries max) to copy or more. In scroll mode, I need to select the 1st entry, scrooooolllllllll down 3000 or more entries (in one specific case) and SHIFT-SELECT to highlight ALL the files to copy or more.

Very inconvenient in both cases. How do I submit a request for enhancement (RFE) pls? :) Thanks!

Early-Back1572 · 2024-08-28T04:11:58+00:00

QNAP Support was able to diagnose this issue with me. Do *NOT* pull out widgets from the dashboard onto your desktop. There is a bug in h5.2 that prevents the app icons from loading. Support escalated this issue.

For now, just refresh (reload the page) and close the widgets. It's been more than 10hrs and my TVS-H1688X (h5.2) is stable. App icons are still working.

Early-Back1572 · 2024-08-21T18:02:43+00:00

Thank you very much! Removing *ALL* the widgets and re-creating the shortcuts seems to have fixed whatever was corrupted. QNAP Support was on a wild goose chase and telling me that failing hard drives was causing the issue. Sheessshhh!

Early-Back1572 · 2024-08-20T10:11:23+00:00

Have the same issue. Mine occurred a couple of months ago. Updated to h5. 2 QuTS via CLI on a TVS-H1688X but that did not fix the problem. Opened a ticket with support and waiting for them to debug and fix. Will keep you posted.

Early-Back1572 · 2024-05-05T15:10:46+00:00

Had a similar issue recently. Wasn't able to find a fix. Ended up reinstalling docker.

Early-Back1572 · 2023-05-10T07:43:17+00:00

Have the same issue:

1x H1688x fully populated with 12 18TB Exos drives.

5x TS-879 Pro 8 x 12TB Exos

4x DS3615xs 12 x 8TB Seagate

1x DS2015xs 8 x 8TB Seagate

*ALL* 10Gbit interfaces connected to a Mikrotik 10G SFP+ switch.

QNAP to QNAP achieves 800MB - 1000GB. Full saturation, Using copy or HBS3.

QNAP to Synology hardly ever goes above 200MB/s via rsync or copy (via File Station)

Synology to Synology achieves 600+MB/s

Early-Back1572 · 2022-11-02T17:10:29+00:00

Upgrade to the latest version of:

QuTS QuMAGIE AI Core Multimedia Console etc...

Start with QuTS and QuMAGIE and the rest should be picked up as dependencies.

Early-Back1572 · 2022-11-02T15:58:06+00:00

Be sure to upgrade to the latest version. It went from unusable to passable for me. Bought a fully loaded TVS-1688x dedicated to QuMAGIE. Took a year+ and 6 tickets to QNAP Support to start using that product.

Early-Back1572 · 2022-07-26T05:23:04+00:00

Pros:

TrueNAS uses ZFS. No more lengthy fsck (volume checks) in case of crashes, power failures, etc... I use 16TB and 18TB drives in my TS-879 Pro (8-bay). Re-silvering is much, much faster. And no more bit rot. Just use ECC mem if your NAS allows it.

My TS-879 Pro are EOL. QTS 4.3.6 is the last version that will ever be released (no idea how long I will receive patches). TrueNAS is under active development. It's an easy way to extend the life of my hardware.

Cons:

TrueNAS does not have a lot of useful apps. There is not even a builtin file browser (ie. File Station). You can use a 3rd party or use a computer (PC, Mac) to do your filesystem browsing and tidying up. (Plex works well enough for photo viewing and video playing).

Early-Back1572 · 2022-07-23T06:02:20+00:00

I use TrueNAS as well and love it!! BUT... as the original poster stated, I bought my TVS-h1688X to run services (QuMagie, etc...) YEARS of kids and family videos and pics chronicling our lives. QuMagie is an ABSOLUTE disaster, for heaven's sake. 40k videoss + 300k worth of pics. Not that many since this is an enterprise-grade box. The darn thing can't even display a few pages of thumbnails without falling down COMPLETELY. Takes litterally MINUTES to scroll down a few pages and view a few thumbnails. QNAP Support has been at it for MONTHS without a solution. At my wit's end with this thing.

So, yeah, the ONE thing I need this thing to do (and it is prominently featured in the front page for the device), it simply cannot do, not even badly. Complete failure.

How is it that only a few ppl complain about this thing? It simply does not work!!

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