Extend your NAS

You can flesh out OMV and add a bunch of features to make it more usable. The distribution supports quite a handful of official and thirdparty plugins, which you can install and enable according to your needs and requirements. To browse a list of all the officially supported plugins, head to System > Plugins. The page lists over 40 plugins, which are divided into categories such as Administration, Backup, Downloaders, Filesystems, Network and so on. One useful option is the downloader plugin, which can download files into the NAS, and includes several downloaders such as Aria2 and Youtube- DL. This plugin is well complemented by the transmission plugin, which downloads torrents via the Transmission app. You should also enable the clamav plugin, which gives you the ability to scan your NAS for viruses.

To enable a plugin, simply click on the corresponding checkbox. You can even toggle multiple plugins in one go. After selecting the plugins you wish to enable, click the Install button. OMV then downloads the plugins from the Raspbian repositories via the APT package management system and enables you to track its progress. Depending on the number of plugins you’re installing and their size, this process could take some time to complete.

Once the plugins have been downloaded and installed, they append the OMV administration interface and create an entry for themselves. For example, the downloader plugin installs itself under Server > Downloader. Switch to the new section when you want to configure different aspects of the plugin. Each plugin has its own configurable elements.