LIVESTREAM - Fun S*** You Can Do With Your NAS Besides Plex - Why you Need a NAS in your Life

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A NAS is for more than a Plex Media Server - Find out the 15 Fun things you can do with a NAS https://www.span.com/about 1. Create a sync of ALL your devices overnight so all data is backed up every day whilst you are asleep 2. Karaoke! Using some of the newer generation of QNAP NAS you can attach microphones and a HDMI TV and you have a fully functioning and comprehensive Karaoke Machine. Use you existing music and either download text or add your own. 3. Create a bespoke and comprehensive CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) with numerous apps, but by far the most popular is SugarCRM 4. CREATE A VIRTUAL Machine – in Windows, Android, Ubuntu and I have even heard whisper of a Mackintosh OS being used. Run a mobile desktop to centralise all your processes and with some NAS have PCIe slots, install a graphics card inside the NAS and boom… have fun editing/playing – just need WiFi 5. Create an impressive Surveillance setup throughout your home – standalone too 6. Explore the App store - More than just File station, Photo Station, Blah Blah – go to the Beta Lab and fine the games (Mario, Free Old skool RPGs, Open TRANSPORT Tycoon Deluxe, Tetris and more), the podcast generators 7. Host a Livestream on a solid, High Definition Platform without using a third party provider (possible ads, reliability, off site trans-coding, shared, etc) using DJ2 Live 8. Create an IOT platform for your home or business – pick up a handful of cheap IOT Sensors and Actuators and buy connecting them with your NAS and IoT software – monitor and control your whole home! - Motion Detection - Temperature - Sound - Eclectic - Water flow - Visual - Physical movement of a specific item Some starter kits that include a pile of different sensors are available from as little as 30-40 dollars and more extensive and pre-programmed kits for 1-300 dollars 9. Connect a wifi dongle (USB or PCIe) and you can convert your NAS into another Wireless Access point. PLUS you can buy better aerials than the ones on your router and with software like Wireless AP Station, you can have vastly better control – prioritising or denying control as you see fit 10. Watch and record LIVE TV on your NAS with native NAS Apps or Plex as you see fit – I know this is technically Plex, but many NAS let you do it for FREE 11. Use Software Like DoMotz to monitor ALL network devices in your home and regardless of whether they are a Phone, a Laptop, a TV or a camera, you can create a collaboration platform or remote control all devices at once 12. Create banners and Ads with any pictures, music and video on your NAS with Software like Signage station that lives inside the NAS – so all you need is access to a web browser and you can create incredibly slick promotional images and adverts, PowerPoint breakdowns and information slideshows fast and then have them spendable via a link, anywhere 13. Visit the official forums and unofficial Forums – you will find thousands of home brew applications for running programs either directly into your TV at home. Games, Editing Applications, Communication software, even sync up your mobile phone to get realtime information from it on your TV or Laptop device, pushed from the NAS to you! 14. Create your own bespoke Wiki Database that lives on your NAS. Is there a subject close to your heart that you think needs a one-stop encyclopaedia of knowledge? Perhaps you are working on a n App, a Project or a service and need to build an FAQ and Tutorial page, all in lovely Wordpress – DokuWiki is available to let you build you own – NASWiki coming soon! 15. Create a whole Group/team/business network with email clients, live internal chat, shared to-do space, CMS, Calendar, Office editing suite (docs, excel, etc). Are you a startup, a bunch of Uni students or just a lose group that need a shared platform to get stuff done! Get a NAS and boom – ready to go in 10 mins Did you enjoy the video? Find it helpful? Want to hear more? Of course you want to...you're only human! Why not subscribe to save you searching next time https://www.youtube.com/user/SPANdotCOM Are you interested in all things data storage. Perhaps you are a Mac users and want to know if this NAS, DAS, Cable or Drive will work for you? That is where SPAN and Robbie can help. For over 20 years SPAN has been helping companies and individuals worldwide with their digital archive and storage needs. Alongside that Robbie (Robert Andrews if you want to be delightfully formal) has been spending the last few years keeping you up to date on all things data and won't shut up about it! If you are as interested in data as we are, then you can find us in a number of ways. SPAN can be reached here SPAN - http://www.span.com. However if you want to be kept up to date with new releases, news and keep your finger on the pulse of data storage, follow us below.