To be pedantic, this is not 100% true. Enphase iQ8 inverters can do what they call 'solar backup', which can form a microgrid and provide power without batteries.

Thanks for the info, hadn't heard of those. Looks like they came out in late 2021 , my system was installed March 2019 .

This only ...

If the internet went out during a disaster, most likely the power would too, so who cares?


There are many people like me who have backup power. Mine's via solar with battery*, others use gas powered generators, or natural gas powered generators.

I'm in the Houston area and lost power the first ...

did you move recordings using the macOS finder, from the old to the new partition? I copied my old recordings using the synology DSM file manager, and it took only few seconds (files moved from the old to the new partition)


I used Finder. I moved 12 TB of recordings from a Drobo 8D (Thunderbolt ...

I ended up pointing it to a new directory for new recordings, then copied over all the recordings from the initial directory. Took a few days. That finished on Friday, after which I copied over the new recordings, then uninstalled the DVR from my Mac. Surprisingly, the uninstall process did not ...

We have just released an official Silicondust package for Synology:


Nice!

I've done a new install on my Synology DS1821+, it's never been used as a DVR before. Was simple to install, and appears to be working - in File Station I see HDHomeRun, configuration file, log file, Live TV directory ...