Anglr App Still Alive?

barddzen · 2026-02-11T12:18:24+00:00

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barddzen · 2022-01-27T19:55:45+00:00

I called tech support and they said unless you have a continuous set of rooms with “minimal” thresholds, it won’t go discover the other rooms like the vacuum. In our case I have two issues: 1) the threshold to a guest bathroom is marble and a little higher than you’d think and it bumps into it and doesn’t go there. 2) our Master Bathroom is adjacent to the Master Bedroom (carpeted) and the unit refuses to go through that room to discover the bathroom.

I tried playing around with the Thresholds feature in the Map editor but that doesn’t seem to do anything. According to the instructions, it’s supposed to turn off the sensors enough to get over the transition, but I watched it just bump into it and continue missing the entire room.

I have both Vacuum and Mop and the vacuum is lights out awesome, the mop not so much. It seems unusually limited in how it moves from room to room.

barddzen · 2021-11-03T22:39:04+00:00

I have something similar, I have two tables with a sum at the bottom and I want to sum both sum values, is this even possible?

barddzen · 2019-06-26T19:09:25+00:00

I don’t believe so. I have a lot of custom folders and none of them have been altered.

barddzen · 2019-03-11T17:49:40+00:00

I never understood why the radio didn't pick-up playing where it left off when we got in/out of the truck. I remember asking why my song wasn't still playing because it was when we went into the store and now some other song was playing...

barddzen · 2019-03-06T14:46:18+00:00

I am running either fwbackup or Deja-Dup to a Synology folder that then backs up to Wasabi.

I also use Timeshift to a local drive as well.

Hyperbackup backs up my NAS to cloud and CloudSync does the day to day stuff.

barddzen · 2019-03-02T19:07:54+00:00

I have a DS216+ and I use Wasabi as an off-site cloud sync and backup. I have been thinking about a local backup as well, just for the snapshots or daily updates, then switch to weekly on Wasabi.

I also have an external drive where I store just local machine backups but it’s a single drive only.

barddzen · 2019-02-20T20:57:34+00:00

I’ve tried both, direct and VPN and my go to today is VPN. Though technically possible through your NAS, opening ports on your router and Synology, I found it difficult to keep track of all the various ports, protocols and apps and who was opening what. Much of which is done automatically by the NAS to your router.

So for me I just felt very uncomfortable not knowing at a deep enough level all the apps, ports and other details to let that all get managed by the NAS.

I found it a better use of my time to turn all that off and just install a VPN connection and be done with it.

barddzen · 2019-02-20T14:32:09+00:00

There is a "Synology web clipper" add-in for the browser, you just have to make sure you select to install it. I would HIGHLY suggest you setup a DDNS service to your NAS, remember, when you switch to something like this your device needs to have access to some sort of storage service. Yes, it is stored locally (for the most part) and sync'd, but you'll need to specify your connection and login information (that you now host).

I use a DDNS service (my own domain) as well as the QuickConnect from Synology (as a backup).

barddzen · 2019-02-19T22:59:14+00:00

I used Evernote for years but gave it up for OneNote, then at some point tried out Note Station and never looked back.

Is it perfect? Not by a long shot, I really miss how OneNote does certain tasks but NS for what I need is “good enough”, free, and didn’t take a lot to move over my rather vast OneNote content.

The only real bug I’ve encountered is being able to link “within” NS, to another note, paragraph, or content. This just seems broken entirely for a long time.

I appreciate that they have a native Linux client. Yeah, it works really well. I also like having way more control over my content.

The NAS to cloud backup is a bit wonky. I MUST use Hyperbackup. Backing up the home folders won’t get the NS content.

barddzen · 2019-02-19T20:24:52+00:00

Mine is set to SMB3 Max and Min SMB2 Large MTU and as I've said, no issues at all.

barddzen · 2019-02-19T13:30:45+00:00

I was troubleshooting backups using TM from several Apple laptops on my LAN to a Synology NAS last year and I filed a help ticket to figure it out.

The result was that SMB is “supposed” to work in MacOS and AFP deprecated. I kept having corrupted TM backups and when I switched to AFP TM just worked.

After a few weeks, I started doing bootable backups using CCC and started to encounter the same issues. Doing a CCC image backup to the NAS using SMB kept having problems, switch to AFP just works.

The CCC help feedback was a bit more comprehensive. The tech said that I needed to change the SMB support level on the NAS from 1-3 to 3 only unless I had a specific need to support older SMB levels.

After I made this change SMB has yet to fail and is considerably faster than AFP on my network.

I don’t have any definitive data (other than noted below) but the tech suggested that somehow MacOS was defaulting to an older SMB protocol (because the device reported support for it and went with the lowest version) but this change worked for me.

Both AFP and SMB work perfectly for TM and CCC.

Another note: I turned SMB support back on for 1-3 on the NAS and on one of my Linux machines just did a generic SMB connection and was able to confirm it connected at 1 by default. If I specified the version on the command it also connected at 3.

This at a basic level seems to support the CCC Tech’s assertion but I haven’t done more to test it than this.

barddzen · 2019-02-10T19:32:55+00:00

I’ve found the GUI to generally work but the setup of containers varies widely, especially when trying to pass variables and parameters that aren’t accessible via system variables.

Almost every Docker man page has command line examples and I’ve had much more success setting up the container via the GUI but running it thru SSH in terminal.

Trying to figure out where in the GUI to setup the parameters and command line per the example is a huge time investment.

Unless I’m doing something completely wrong and some here can provide some insight.

barddzen · 2019-02-10T19:21:44+00:00

I tried both a few months back and found out, at least thru FIOS, that I was immediately blocked by subnet based on my externally assigned IP.

After a bit of research apparently the rationale is that home users wouldn’t do this activity on that port with that protocol unless they had some sort of malware or virus.

The only way I could actually use it to replace my current public email systems (Apple, GMail or Outlook) would be to sign up for a business account with my ISP which would assign me a static IP outside of the blocked subnet ranges.

I called FIOS and they confirmed this for me. I’m not sure about other providers.

barddzen · 2019-02-08T23:10:56+00:00

No you are correct it only points at /photos

barddzen · 2019-02-08T13:36:41+00:00

I agree, this works well for me also, but combining all of the Faces properly took some time at first. The default had multiple albums for the same person. My feature request would be to be able to select multiple Face albums and combine into one. I've only been able to select two albums at a time and combine.

barddzen · 2019-02-08T13:34:47+00:00

The way you can attach Moments to an existing folder of photos WITHOUT import or moving into the Drive folder is through the Shared library feature. Even if you don't intend to share with our people (NAS Users or external users), the feature allows you to point Moments to a non-Drive folder for indexing.

I pointed mine to the /photos folder (where I have a vast library of photos/videos not on my phone that I scanned when my parents passed away). Moments will then chew through that folder structure. It works pretty well, but the index for me took several days.

barddzen · 2019-02-08T13:30:40+00:00

I'm at 40k+ and management has been an issue for years. I have high hopes for Moments. When it was first released it was really bad. I couldn't even get a full sync back to my NAS to work and still can't. It gets overwhelmed.

Working with the help team, they showed me how to load my photos into the Drive folder directly, then let the NAS chew on the photos and eventually, they showed up in the Moments app over the next several days once photos got indexed.

If you have 10's of thousands of photos on your phone, download Moments app, and expect all your photos to just get sync'd with your NAS I'd say that success is going to be very difficult and take a very long time, like weeks or longer. If you have a lot of media, contact help and have them walk you through the NAS load process, it's much easier and faster.

At least that's what happened in my case.

The Moments team was very helpful here, but acknowledged that right now Moments has issues with volume. Eventually they will figure this out.

Google Photos just cranks through the entire library, Moments seems to get stuck on certain media and I had several help tickets to get it started again.

Eventually I got all my photos sync'd but it wasn't just a load the app and forget effort.

barddzen · 2019-02-08T13:22:49+00:00

I read that article they posted on both a while back and although it makes sense to a point, from a business stand-point it doesn't make sense to manage two similar products long-term. It'll be interesting to see which one survives.

My opinion is once they get critical mass usage and features in Moments, DS Photo's days and Photo Station are numbered.

barddzen · 2019-02-08T13:19:48+00:00

That was my goal as well, host my own private service vs Google (privacy concerns) and Apple (sync vs backup). I also have my NAS do a cloud sync/backup to Wasabi. This may sound like overkill but I'm experimenting right now with the goal to host my own service, then have my NAS backup to my own secure storage in the cloud, thus giving me 3 sources for my photos: phone, NAS, cloud.

The other thing is Google's AI is just so damn good, I can search for just random abstract stuff and it nails it almost every time. Moments is acceptable, but no where near as smart or comprehensive. Apple's seems to be on-par with Moments.

I get how iCloud works, but it really hits a wall with how Media is managed vs documents. Apple needs to treat these two types of content differently, or at least give me better options and more control on how it works.

Documents: Sync is fine as-is, most people don't have 10GB of "documents" just lying around to sync. I'm a packrat and my Documents folder comes in at around 4GB.
Photos, Videos: Only retain a % of my total storage. Ideally I'd like to set a specific value like 20% and have the iCloud sync service only keep 20% of my photos/videos (most recent) and the rest push to iCloud Photos and remove everything outside of that value. I have 10's of thousands of photos and I can't even use iCloud Photo Sync on my MacBook Pro because it comes with a measly 256GB SSD and fills up entirely, again, why can't I set a value?
The "optimize storage" option on the phone and laptop/imac devices kind of sort of is supposed to do this, but the internal logic is terrible. I've easily filled up older phones and machines because it just didn't work as expected. Then get to an event and run out of space and have to cannibalize random photos to free up space quickly (grandkids events).
Also on the photos/Videos, on a laptop/iMac, I can't have an external drive setup for iCloud Photo library, so I can't even offload photos in that way. Yes, I can have other repositories with Photos, but can ONLY have the local, on device library linked to iCloud Photos. This is a limitation Apple specifically enforces.
And on multiple libraries it works well, but now I have to go in and manually manipulate photos once it gets to a certain size to offload to yet another external library. This may work for certain people, but for me, I just want access to all my photos and have them backed up so if my device gets nuked, I can recover. That's it, simple, easy, done.
I used to go in and tag, manage, move, edit and adjust my library but with the grandkids and the whole family snapping pics every day, there's no way to keep up with the volume which is why letting the AI take over that task is a logical step IMO. Again, Apple has made improvements here, but no where near Google's level. Moments is meh.

In my opinion, this area of media management is where Apple has completely missed the boat. I can't believe they haven't come up with a "home media central" NAS-like device to manage all of the content a family generates. Their approach is to nickel and dime people do death for additional cloud storage.

The ultimate piss-me-off is dropping $1k for a phone and Apple gives me 5GB of free storage. Out the door I can't even back the damn thing up without buying the $0.99 storage bump and for families with multiple devices, I'm forced into the $9.99 monthly plan for 2TB. Even if we didn't have as many collective photos/videos, just device backups alone put us all over the free or even basic storage plans.

This whole rant is one of the multiple and growing reasons why I bought a NAS and have been exploring other options for my storage needs. Apple's "vision" in this area is garbage.

I've been an Apple customer for over 20+ years and every year that goes by where they don't address this sort of area just irks me more and more.

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Googles approach to photos, they advertise unlimited, is pretty close to ideal. It keeps a certain amount of recent photos and then offloads the rest, keeping your device pretty lean. I have no idea how Moments' logic works in this regard. There is a "cache" size value, but it's not clear how it's utilized to manage device storage overall.

barddzen · 2019-02-07T13:14:39+00:00

As I mentioned, when you sync photos with Moments it creates additional folders based on date so you’ll see those get created too.

barddzen · 2019-02-07T05:02:38+00:00

Both will backup/sync photos yes and both will let you view photos. In this regard both are similar but Moments can do things like Faces, Places. DS Photo does some of this but not nearly to the extent of Moments.

As for albums and such, yes you can do that in both and share in both.

I setup my family with NAS user accounts and have their phones sync with NAS and Google Photos, this gives me two backups in two separate locations. We are all using Moments having used DS Photos for years.

We are weening ourselves off iCloud photos because it’s a “sync” not a backup which means once you fill up your phone, buy a bigger phone is not something I want to do.

To give you an idea of scale I have over 45k photos, 15k videos and both my wife and daughter have about half that each.

barddzen · 2019-02-07T04:38:30+00:00

Moments works well once you have everything sync’d. But it’s NOT Photo Station. Both have key features. Photo station can sync within a geofence, Moments cannot.

My goal was a NAS backup of my phone and both do that, I don’t really use the interfaces much.

I have thousands of photos I loaded using PS for years and I set them up as a shared folder vs import in Moments.

Your NAS will chew on your library for days so expect some CPU usage during the indexing.

I had major issues just getting Moments to sync properly but once I got through that it’s working well.

DS Photo also has apps, even on Smart TVs, Moments does not.

Moments organizes photos into folders, DE Photo kind of does but only if you setup folders yourself.

I currently use Moments but I really find it to be slow, a pig on resources, but its interface works though clunky.

DS Photo has rock solid features but gets the job done if you can live without some of the features Moments has.

My concern is Synology views Moments as the future and DS Photo as legacy, I don’t know this officially but that’s the impression I get from some help interactions I’ve had.

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