Intro

obsidian-livesync is an Obsidian plugin, which allows you to Synchronize your Obsidian vault between devices, using a CouchDB database.

Synology NAS devices offer Docker support, which is a convenient way to host your CouchDB.

Setup the CouchDB container on Synology

Pre-requisites

1. Create a directory for your Docker data (e.g. /volume1/docker/obsidian-couchdb)
2. Create a user with permissions to that directory - put them in the users group