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NAS Connector

The NAS Connector lets Deepgrip work against video libraries stored on your own hardware — Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, a Linux fileserver, a Windows share, or an S3-compatible object store. A small agent runs on (or near) your storage. Deepgrip's cloud talks to the agent via outbound HTTPS long-poll, so you don't open any inbound ports.

What you get

  • Catalog mode: Index 50 TB+ of video in minutes. Metadata only, no uploads.
  • Selective ingest: Pick folders or individual videos to process through the AI pipeline.
  • Auto-archive: Move old cloud videos to NAS on age or storage-quota policies — they stay queryable.
  • Lazy retrieval: When a user chats about a NAS-only video, we stream bytes on demand.
  • One-click restore: Pull a NAS video back into cloud for full processing any time.

Architecture at a glance

┌───────────────────┐                     ┌────────────────────────┐
│ Your NAS / Server │                     │ Deepgrip Cloud         │
│                   │                     │                        │
│ ┌───────────────┐ │   outbound HTTPS    │  ┌──────────────────┐  │
│ │ deepgrip-     │ │ ◀────── task ─────▶ │  │ orchestrator     │  │
│ │ agent         │ │                     │  │ + scheduler      │  │
│ └───────────────┘ │                     │  └──────────────────┘  │
│        │          │                     │         │              │
│        ▼ read     │                     │         ▼              │
│ ┌───────────────┐ │                     │  ┌──────────────────┐  │
│ │ /volume1/     │ │                     │  │ STT + Vision +   │  │
│ │   videos/     │ │                     │  │ Embedding        │  │
│ └───────────────┘ │                     │  └──────────────────┘  │
└───────────────────┘                     └────────────────────────┘

The agent runs as a system service. Outbound 443 is the only connectivity requirement.