Help
Guides for setting up and running NAS Reborn, the app that turns a spare iPhone or iPad into a network drive for your home, with optional web, S3 and git serving, a live camera and your home's sensor data when you want them.
Setting up
Getting Started
Install the app on a spare device, start sharing, and see it appear as a drive on every computer in the house.
Always-On Serving
Keep the server running around the clock: Guided Access, charging and battery guidance, and the watchdog that alerts you if serving stops.
A Stand for the Server
Print a charging stand that holds the phone upright and aims its camera, with files fitted to the iPhone 6s and for later iPhones.
The network drive
The Network Drive
Connect from the macOS Finder, the Files app on iPhone and iPad, and Windows Explorer. No client software, just SMB.
Time Machine Backups
The device advertises itself as a Time Machine destination, so your Mac backs up to the drawer device over the network.
Device Accounts
The username and password other devices sign in with, for the network drive and for git. One per person, each revocable.
Files and websites
Folders, Access and Websites
One directory tree: every top-level folder is an SMB share, an S3 bucket and a website at once, editable in the Files app.
External Drives
Grow the server's storage with a USB drive: adapters for Lightning and USB-C, powering spinning disks, and supported formats.
Access Keys and S3 Clients
Create and revoke access keys, connect S3 Files with one tap, and configure rclone, Cyberduck and other S3 tools.
Template Sites
Jekyll-style sites with Liquid templates, Markdown, layouts and posts, rendered live on the device with no build step.
Git Repositories
Host git repositories on the device, push from Working Copy or the command line, and publish a website with every push.
Cameras and sensors
Camera Feeds
Watch the server device's own camera live in a web browser, protected by an account or published deliberately.
Home and Sensor Data
The device's own sensors and your Apple Home accessories, readable from template sites and charted on a dashboard.
Network and questions
Your Address and HTTPS
When you opt into web serving, the server gets its own hostname under nas2.dk and a real Let's Encrypt certificate. Custom domains too.
Reaching Your Server
On your own network it always works. For the wider internet: IPv6, automatic port mapping, manual forwarding, each verified from outside before it is offered.
Frequently Asked Questions
Battery safety, pricing and the free tier's limits, backups, and what keeps working if the backend ever goes away.