Administrator account
OpenMediaVault only allows administrators to use its API, so the app needs one. Use a dedicated administrator account with a strong password.
Features
Everything your NAS tells you, in one place.
openmediavault monitor reads the OpenMediaVault API of the servers you add and shows it the way a phone app should: quick to scan, native, and calm. This page walks through what each part does.
Dashboard
Every server at a glance
The dashboard has one card per server, so you know in seconds whether anything needs your attention.
- Status of each server: online, offline, connecting, sign-in problem, warning or critical
- CPU, memory and storage with clear bars, plus disk health, uptime and network throughput
- Warnings on the card, such as a pending restart or a filesystem that is almost full
- When a server cannot be reached, the card keeps the last known data and says how old it is
- Pull to refresh, and a default server of your choice
Server details
Trends, storage and system information
Open a server for the details. CPU and memory show a short trend line, and every area has its own screen.
- CPU and memory trend charts while the app is open
- Filesystems with capacity, used and available space, type and mount status
- System information: operating system, kernel, OpenMediaVault version, uptime, processor and memory
- Server time and boot time, with values that stay readable on small screens
Disks and RAID
Know your disks before they fail
Every physical disk is listed with what OpenMediaVault knows about it, so a problem is visible early.
- Model, device path, capacity and serial number
- Temperature, power-on hours and SMART status where the disk reports it
- RAID arrays with level, state, members, degraded warning and sync progress (when the RAID plugin is present)
- Network interfaces with addresses, MAC, speed and live throughput
Docker
Containers, with their own icons
If the server runs Docker with the OpenMediaVault compose plugin, the containers get their own section.
- Searchable list grouped into running and stopped
- The app recognises more than forty well-known applications from the image name and shows their logo
- Container details with CPU and memory use, ports, mounts, network and traffic
- Start, stop and restart a container right from its details
Services
See what is running
A read-only list of the services of the server and their state, with a stopped-but-enabled service shown as a warning.
- Running, stopped and disabled services at a glance
- Read-only on purpose: the OpenMediaVault API has no way to start or stop a service, and the app says so
Activity
A log of what changed
OpenMediaVault keeps no event history, so the app compares the answers of your servers while it is open and records what changed.
- Server disconnected and reconnected, disk and SMART warnings, filesystem problems, degraded RAID
- A stopped service or container, and sign-in failures
- Your own actions, such as a container you stopped, are listed too
- Filter by warnings or by server, and mark everything as read
Settings
Yours to adjust
The app follows your phone and lets you change it where it matters.
- Language: system default, English or Hungarian, applied at once
- Appearance: system, light or dark, and Material You colours on Android 12 and later
- Several servers, with edit, test connection, default server and reorder
Safe by design
How your login is handled.
Secure storage
Passwords and sessions live in the Keychain on iOS and the Keystore on Android. Nothing is kept in plain settings.
No account, no analytics
The app talks only to the servers you add. There is no sign-up, no tracking and no telemetry.
VPN or Tailscale
Reach your server over your home network, a VPN or Tailscale instead of opening it to the internet.
HTTP on your LAN, HTTPS when you can
Home servers often use plain HTTP, and the app allows it. Prefer HTTPS: a certificate from a private CA works once you install that CA on the phone. Certificate checks are never weakened.
Limits you can rely on
No start or stop of services, no file operations. The app only sends actions you start yourself.