HYBRIDDESK STATION

By installing the applications required to enable the HybridDesk Station you can use most of the applications found in the NAS from the comfort of your living room and/or bed. The applications installed are Google Chrome, Clementine (multi-platform music player), DeadBeef (music player), Facebook, File Station HD, Firefox, OceanKTV (Karaoke), LibreOffice (office suite), Surveillance Station, Music Station HD, QTS (web interface), OpenTTD (game), Photo Station HD, Plex Home Theater (media player), QVR Pro Client (Surveillance Station Upgrade), Skype, Spotify (music, podcast, and video streaming service), Supertux (game), TuneInRadio (online radio), Video Station HD, Wesnoth (game), HD Player (combines the photo, music, video stations) and YouTube.

Once again if Karaoke is your thing then the OceanKTV will brighten your day not only because of its new features and plethora of available songs (via YouTube) but also because of its very easy to navigate interface.

The new QVR Pro Client is more versatile compared to the usual Surveillance Station Pro we’ve known and used for so long.

Accessing the QTS OS from HDMI may not be nearly as smooth as the desktop browser version but it can come in handy for emergencies.

The HD Player allows you to view pictures listen to audio and watch video clips but it lacks many things we’ve gotten used to from KODI including support for some file formats.

Of course it’s always worth pointing out that you can still install KODI on your own by downloading and manually installing the latest QPKG file (even though QNAP does not officially support it).

I don’t know if there are other versions of KODI available for QNAP NAS servers but we installed v18.0 Alpha 1 (Leia) which as you can see from the above pictures worked flawlessly.