Awesome! Thank you for sharing. :-)

Here is @livestream Hawaii's stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RDFu3c0Ktc

One of the chatters just mentioned that they may have had part of their roof come off in central Oahu.

I assume the QNAP has some actual performance.

But my experience with NAS apps is they kind of suck, and I've quickly run into limitations with them.

Still, they do have their place.

Yeah, sorry, i was lost. If you have a built in app, you can use that, but if not, install a linux, and follow the instructions on owncasts site: https://owncast.online/quickstart/installation/

I'd agree, but on the basis that OP doesn't know where to start, using the NAS built in apps is probably the way to go.

So, good news, your nas supports virtualisation, so if you run out of apps, you can install a general Linux on it and use that.

If it doesnt have a built in owncast app, install a general purpose linux, and install it on that via the owncast instructions:

https://owncast.online/quickstart/installation/

First you gotta ask yourself, do you feel lucky? what are you trying to solve for?

General file storage with backup somewhere?

File sync from mobile devices?

Getting calendaring to your own hardware?

Start with what your goals are, them look for solutions that QNAP can support.

As I mentioned my other comment, I prefer using a NAS as storage and use a server for managing services.

This way I have services isolated by functionality - one of my VM's is ONLY for file management. It provides the SMB shares, an http file server, and an SFTP service. All other services that require file access do it through that server.

Alternatively, use the NAS only as a NAS and a computer of some sort as the host for services.

All depends on what you're hosting and what the NAS is capable of.

For example, I have an ancient Drobo that can run some apps, but holy hell the performance would be abysmal. So I host services in VM's on an ESXi box (an old Dell SFF desktop that's very low power draw).

Which QNAP nas? And which OS?

In general terms though, look for an Apps section in the settings, and install the Apps you want. You may find the choice limited by the OS, but once you reach that limit, you can migrate to a full fat OS on a separate device.

If the WEbRTC Simulcast support is what I think it is, I think it could be useful... but I'll have to try it out first

Anything good you're excited about in the release?

It's not mine. Just found it today and I'm letting others know it exists.

But I do have 2 of my own. And basically yes. I have stream.ozoned.net and stream.firesidefedi.live. They're Hetzner VPS that runs Owncast. I stream to that and you watch it from connecting to that server.

Check out https://owncast.online/ for info on Owncast or https://directory.owncast.online to find others streaming on THEIR own Owncast servers.

So I'm streaming from your server directly in your home?

Owncast livestream.

Is this peertube?