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Application Name: Jackett Application Site: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jackett/ Github: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-jackett Please post any questions/issues relating to this docker you have in this thread. If you are not using Unraid (and you should be!) then please do not post here, instead head to linuxserver.io to see how to get support.

Thought I would share a recent upgrade to a 4K capable Windows VM on unRAID. We hear a lot about GPU passthrough for gaming, but some of us are not gamers, but nonetheless want hi res displays and fast, smooth video performance. One BIG advantage of a VM on the unRAID server is that you get very fast I/O performance with the array disks (including UD), because you are not going over the LAN. After setting it up I am getting 235 MB/sec copy speeds when moving data from the array to an unassigned device via Windows Explorer! That’s 4G in 17 secs. On my desktop, despite being faster and with 2x the memory, I’d be lucky to get 75 MB/sec, and 4G would take a minute or more over the network. But I’m getting ahead of myself. My journey started a few weeks ago with a 43” 4K TV for $329 at Costco that I decided to buy as a 4K monitor. My 27” 1920x1200 was feeling smaller and smaller, and I was ready for a bigger screen with more real estate, without smaller fonts. This is nearly 4x the size and 4x the resolution! Although I don't plan to use if for movie watching, I should try watching 4K on it. Kind of scared I'll like it and have to start upgrading TVs! I had been wanting to move my Windows physical machine out of my study and into the basement next to the unRAID servers. The workstation is kind of noisy, and heats up the room which is challenging to keep cool. As I started to explore KVM virtualization, I wondered if it made more sense to virtualize Windows on unRAID. If the I could run cables from basement to study, it wouldn’t matter if they connected to the server or the workstation. Decided what the heck – I’d try moving to a Win10 unRAID VM. Worst case – I’d learn a little something and I could always go back to the physical build on 8.1 or upgrade it to 10. So I bought an NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti SC, a 50' HDMI cable and a 32' USB extension cable. The Ti was probably a little overkill, but price was only a little more than slower cards (its gone way up in price since I bought it!), and this way I can do some gaming if I ever wanted to. (Visions of 2017 equivalents of “Age of Empires” and “Diablo” flash through my head.) I looked long and hard for a 4K video card that would fit in a single slot, but no luck. Luckily I found my case would accommodate the double wide card without even losing a slot (it gave all its lanes to another slot for my SAS9201-16i. I did have to pull the -16e out, and lost access to one of my drive cages. But I don't really need the slots right now, so not a big deal. Before moving things to the basement, I experimented with the long HDMI run in the study and had some challenges. The long cable would work from a cold boot, but it would connect and stay connected, but would drop after a few hours of disuse, and no reconnect without a reboot. (The cable somehow self-powers long runs. You can read about it in the link above.) So I bought an AMD RX550 to see if I had better luck. It had NO Windows 8.1 drivers (**shocked**), which made testing hard. But seemed happy with the long cable on a fresh install of Win10. Virtualizing the old machine I decided to virtualize my old 8.1 computer. I had used VMware for several older rigs over the years, but decided to try with KVM. The best way to do this is with Acronis. You take a backup, and then there is a restore option to create a VM. It uses “universal restore”, that removes machine drivers and registry entries. The VMware version went perfect. The RedHat not as smooth because I needed to use unRAID’s XML and not the Acronis generated XML. Problem turned out that the disk image need to be IDE and not VirtIO. Once fixed it came up great, and was peppier than VMware. Would like to find a way to get it to use the Virtio drivers, because I think they are faster. Installing VM on unRAID (no GPU passthrough) In parallel I had been setting up the Win10 VM on unRAID. Was pretty straightforward with the help of @gridrunner's excellent "daily driver" video. Had just a small issue backing up the disk image. KVM creates a sparse file that Linux tools had issues copying around in a reasonable time period. I un-sparsed it (copying with Krusader has that effect). SplashTop desktop was also a great tool, that proved invaluable when I later moved into passthrough. Make sure you install it. A little off topic, but I was able to get VMware, and even its Unity mode, to work inside the KVM Win10 VM, which was pretty cool (nested virtualization). Might not mean much to others, but this is a must have for me, and might have sent me back to the physical workstation if it had not worked. Upgrading VM to Passthrough GPU I installed the AMD RX550 in the unRAID server, and connected the long HDMI and USB cables (USB is for Logitech unifying receiver). Figured if the AMD worked, I’d know the cable was good and then try the Nvidia. I followed @gridrunner 's Part 2 passthrough video. But when I booted the VM, the 4k screen was blank. Crap, I was completely blind to figure out what was going on. Had it even booted? I tried hooking a physical monitor to the server in the basement. No good. Finally thought to try SplashTop and it connected with a low res 640x480 screen with huge fonts. Whew! The Windows default display driver was all upset with the AMD card. I installed the AMD drivers, and could then see the 4k on the big screen. Yes! But the AMD install crashed after the video and audio drivers were installed, and not sure why or what didn’t install. The long HDMI run was not a problem (even after overnight). But the long USB run dropped after about an hour, so no more keyboard or mouse – but SplashTop came to the rescue again so I could type. Stopping and starting the VM did not get the USB keyboard going. And despite being functional, the passthrough USB Logitech receiver did not get me the smooth mouse operation I am used to. I needed a full USB passthrough (see below). Next day I swapped in the 1050Ti and it also worked with the long HDMI run (even after several days). I had no issues with the Microsoft Basic Driver, and installed the Nvidia drivers with no crashes or problems. There is no doubt the Nvidia drivers are way better than AMD. The VM was up all the next night and no loss of video . The AMD is going back to the store. USB Passthrough I followed @gridrunner's video on how to passthrough the USB. My motherboard has a single USB plug which supports “reset” and is in its own IOMMU group and it worked perfect. The mouse movement is MUCH smoother with the passthrough. I'd say you need to pass through the USB to have a good experience. The long USB run works great. It self-powers the long run, and is seen as some sort of USB hub. I am typing this on the VM. No one would ever know it was a VM. Smooth and fast! I have given it three full cores (all but Core0/Core4) and 16G of RAM. I’ll give one more plug for “daily driver” video (linked above). Many are complaining about Win10’s privacy issues. He gives lots of tips and tools to make it behave itself, that would be valuable for anyone moving to Win10, regardless of using a VM or not. Cheers to @gridrunner for his videos and support!!! Thanks!!

The recycle bin plugin is tightly integrated to the unRAID SMB shares configuration and adding other shares is not advised or practical. You should create your share in unRAID and control access with user credentials.

The optimal is the one working

I'm not sure an i5 will work in the HP - i5 doesn't support ECC RAM. You can use an i3, or a Xeon.

I'm not getting this error, but can you check the file "config.ini" in your config folder and see what the parameter "log_dir" is set to? That's a gui setting and by default it should be "/config/logs". If different, set it to that and restart

Today's update is required. In and around the middle of August, all versions of CA prior to today's update will cease functioning due to a change in the URL for the application feed.

Yes, parity requires an entire drive. Your parity drive needs to be as large as, or larger than, your biggest data drive. It make sense for it to be at least as fast as your data drives, too. Therefore your calculations are correct - a 3x3TB array results in 6TB of usable space. That's another reason why if I only had 4 drives slots that I'd use larger drives. It's important to keep in mind that parity is *not* a form of backup. Parity makes your primary form of storage more robust via the redundancy it provides. You absolutely should have your critical files backed up elsewhere, though - an external drive kept offsite or a cloud storage provider.

The G1610T is dual cores and has 2,322 Passmarks and the system you linked has 4GB of RAM. That's more than sufficient to run unRAID as a NAS, and maybe a couple of lightweight dockers. If you don't setup any Dockers you don't necessarily need the SSD, it depends on whether you really need to do write-caching to the array.

Fast enough for what? If you want to just run unRAID for storing files, then a Atom D525 works fine. If you're planning on running Plex or VMs, then that's a different story.

Did you disable ftp and telnet? (I know that the 'Tips and Tweaks' plugin can do this.) Many of us are using ssh these days as it is more secure.

Fist check on the log was non-correct, so no errors were corrected, 2nd check was correct, so a 3rd check should return 0 errors. These may be related to the SAS2LP, but probably aren't, any unclean shutdowns recently? Having said that Marvell controllers are not currently recommended, LSI is a much better option.

Those messages indicate that errors are being found that have resulted in PARITY1 being corrected. Unfortunately it is not possible to easily determine the cause. If you include the full diagnostics (Tools->Diagnostics) zip file then you may get more informed feedback about the state of your system/disks. I notice that you are using a Supermicro SAS2LP-MV8 HBA. On some systems these seem to cause problems when using unRAID v6 so these messages could be a side-effect of that. The question is whether you always get such error messages doing a parity check, and whether they are the same sectors each time.

So for all of you that are having issues with the Homebridge docker quitting after X amount of time (most likely due to the harmonyhub plugin). Try this: Edit the docker Turn on Advanced In parameters add: --restart=unless-stopped This should restart the docker if it crashes unexpectedly.

I'd like it as well. What have you tried? It would be nice if it were included. Edit: I've requested it on the Linuxserver forum here: https://forum.linuxserver.io/thread-440.html There is also a fork of the linuxserver docker with it included but I cannot get it to work for me: https://hub.docker.com/r/xeroxmalf/rutorrent-autodl-irssi/ I also found this one: https://hub.docker.com/r/sethgregory/docker-rutorrent-autodl/ I tried that one on Windows earlier and it works but I haven't tried it on UnRAID yet. LOL I have tried the same ones except the sethgregory one I did not try windows, as I don't have the resources for another VM. I really wish this was included, the RSS https feeds don't work on my private tracker due to server volume, and they are not upgrading their hardware anytime soon. The IRC however is always up and what was recommended from some of the experienced members there. Done got it working. How I did it. 1.) SSH into your machine 2.) Enter the following command replacing your file structure. Note I could not get it to work if I changed the 443 port. docker create --name=rutorrent-autodl-irssi -v /mnt/user/Docker/rutorrent-autodl-irssi:/config -v /mnt/user/Docker/Torrents:/downloads -e PGID=100 -e PUID=99 -e TZ=-5 -p 443:443 -p 45566-45576:45566-45576 xeroxmalf/rutorrent-autodl-irssi 3.) Then in the Docker Tab on the Unraid Gui Start the container. Here is the link for additional info https://hub.docker.com/r/xeroxmalf/rutorrent-autodl-irssi/ Done. I spent about 6 hours today trying different combinations but xeroxmalf did it based off of LinuxServer.IO's docker. Edit - Spelling and hyperlink

Just adding my 2 cents for what it took to get smart things working with homebridge. This is the general guide I used but what I have below will help with our docker. https://github.com/pdlove/homebridge-smartthings. After the docker is installed I SSH into the unraid box. Then I got console access on the container. docker exec -it containername bash (docker exec -it homebridge bash) from there I updated homebridge npm install -g homebridge Install this plugin using: npm install -g homebridge-smartthings after that drop your config.json file in the root of the homebridge directory. I used http://jsonlint.com to help validate that my json was actually written correctly. Hopefully this helps someone out. { "bridge": { "name": "Homebridge", "username": "this looks like a Mac address", "port": 51826, "pin": "031-45-154" }, "platforms": [{ "platform": "SmartThings", "name": "SmartThings", "app_url": "https://graph.api.smartthings.com:443/api/smartapps/installations/", "app_id": "your app ID", "access_token": "Your Access token" }] }

Hey guys, I made a new docker template that has been updated to the latest release of homebridge. https://github.com/lukeadair/docker-templates It has also been reworked to use the phusion base image. Many thanks to @ckuburlis for his original docker!

I've turned nfarina's home bridge docker image into a more unRAID friendly one if anyone wants to try it out. https://github.com/ckuburlis/docker-templates Just copy the example config files into the volume, edit as necessary and away you go.