Voltaserve

Cloud Storage for Creators

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▶ Discover A New Way to Interact with Computers

Handle massive images with mosaic technology, extract insights from documents, stream large videos, protect documents with permissions, preview 3D models. collaborate in real-time —all this while keeping your data at your possession.

Voltaserve is reinventing the computer experience. It lets you interact with your computer using natural, human language — issuing commands through chat — while still navigating folders and opening files in a way that feels familiar, fluid, and powerful.

Getting Started

Optional Murph Setup

To take advantage of Murph, you will need a Google Gemini API key, in this case, edit the .env file as follows:

VOLTASERVE_LLM_GEMINI_API_KEY=YOUR_GOOGLE_GEMINI_API_KEY_HERE

Replace the placeholder YOUR_GOOGLE_GEMINI_API_KEY_HERE with the actual value.

Run Your Instance

Pull images: (recommended for most users)

docker compose pull

Optionally build the images from the source: (can be skipped if you pulled the images)

docker compose build

Start containers:

docker compose up -d

Wait until the following containers are running:

• voltaserve-api
• voltaserve-idp
• voltaserve-conversion
• voltaserve-webdav
• voltaserve-language
• voltaserve-mosaic
• voltaserve-console
• voltaserve-murph
• voltaserve-ui

Note

You can check that by running the command docker ps and look at the STATUS column.

Create an account and sign in:

1. Go to the sign up page http://localhost:3000/sign-up and create an account.

2. Open MailDev http://localhost:8025, select the received email and click the confirm email link.

3. Finally, go to the sign in page http://localhost:3000/sign-in and login with your credentials.

Note

Voltaserve supports WebDAV and by default it listens on port 8082.

The iOS App (iPad, iPhone and Mac)

Download on the App Store, or the Mac App Store.

Watch Murph in action on the iPad and iPhone, or a walkthrough video of various capabilities.

Voltaserve’s iOS app defines a gold standard: it’s fully native, optimized for iPad and iPhone, runs beautifully on Mac, features a slick UI with real-time updates, and is built using Apple’s flagship framework — SwiftUI.

After launching the app, you’ll be asked to review and accept the Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.

Once accepted, you’ll see a button labeled “New Server” in the center of the screen under the logo. Please tap it and enter the following details to connect to your Voltaserve instance:

Field	Value
Name	My Voltaserve
API URL	http://your-hostname:8080
Identity Provider URL	http://your-hostname:8081
Murph URL (optional)	http://your-hostname:8087

Replace your-hostname with the actual hostname, domain or IP address of your Voltaserve instance.

Note

Murph URL is optional, it can be omitted if you don't have a Google Gemini API key.

You can keep the "Sign In Strategy" as "Apple" so you can sign in easily with your Apple account, or switch it to "Local" for a traditional sign up with email confirmation, for this you need to make sure your SMTP server is up and running as documented further down.

After saving, you will be able to sign in.

The core of the iOS app is open source and available here.

Mount the Drive on Your Computer

We recommend the following third-party applications:

• Mountainduck
• Owlfiles.

Connect with WebDAV

We recommend the following third-party applications:

• Documents
• Owlfiles
• Cyberduck
• WinSCP
• Rclone.

Configuration

Update the VOLTASERVE_HOSTNAME environment variable in .env file to match your hostname (it can optionally be an IP address as well):

VOLTASERVE_HOSTNAME="your-hostname"

Update the following environment variables in .env file to match your SMTP server:

VOLTASERVE_SMTP_HOST="your-smtp-hostname"
VOLTASERVE_SMTP_PORT=587
VOLTASERVE_SMTP_SECURE=true
VOLTASERVE_SMTP_USERNAME="your-smtp-user"
VOLTASERVE_SMTP_PASSWORD="your-smtp-password"
VOLTASERVE_SMTP_SENDER_ADDRESS="no-reply@your-domain"
VOLTASERVE_SMTP_SENDER_NAME="Voltaserve"

The port 3000 is used for the UI, therefore it needs to be open and accessible from the outside. One way of doing it in Linux is by using ufw:

sudo ufw allow 3000

Note

You can change the UI port to something else, other than 3000, like 80 for example. This can be done by editing the VOLTASERVE_UI_PORT environment variable in .env file as follows:

VOLTASERVE_UI_PORT=80

The port 8082 is used for WebDAV, you can change it by editing the VOLTASERVE_WEBDAV_PORT environment variable in .env file as follows:

VOLTASERVE_WEBDAV_PORT=8082

The port needs to be open and accessible from the outside. One way of doing it in Linux is by using ufw:

sudo ufw allow 8082

Other ports can be changed as well by editing their respective environment variables in .env file.

Troubleshooting

My containers have issues starting up, what should I do?

One reason might be that some ports are already allocated on your machine, in this case you can change the Voltaserve ports in .env file.

I'm not happy with localhost, can I change it?

You can achieve this by changing the VOLTASERVE_HOSTNAME environment variable in .env file.

It can be any IP address, like:

VOLTASERVE_HOSTNAME="192.168.1.100"

Or any custom hostname, like:

VOLTASERVE_HOSTNAME="your-hostname"

Development

To setup a development environment for the purpose of developing and debugging Voltaserve, please read the development documentation available here.

Licensing

Voltaserve is released under the Business Source License 1.1.