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Thanks for the guide. Will give it a try win 5.0 final and the new SimpleFeatures arrives.

+1!

Sounds like Speeding_Ant's e-mail solution will be simple, reliable, and comparable to other NAS devices. At the very least, we should see what he produces before asking Tom to spend his time on this. Why reinvent the wheel? Alternatively, and perhaps the best solution, would be for Tom to adopt Speeding_Ant's work into the official Unraid distribution if he agrees this feature should be part of core functionality. The same goes for UPS support and perhaps even the SimpleFeatures GUI.

Seems that the Wiki would be the best place to keep these so that others can add to or modify them. This is especially important when the original author has stopped updating them (and may even be unavailable). The same goes for the list of FAQs if for any reason RobJ is no longer available to update this first post (not to mention it would be less work for RobJ!).

Anyone notice the micro SD card slot inside? http://i2.wp.com/jpaul.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/microserver_internal_small.jpg Still has an internal USB port

Booting from USB3 can be problematic for many many reasons. I wouldn't recommend it at this point in time.

Actually, WD has the same 1-5 bay limitation listed on their site (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810): I am sure this is both companies wanting these drives to be used in home NAS unit, not in enterprise servers.

With modern desktop hardware, S3 suspend really should not be that hard to pull off. The difference between mobile and desktop hardware is decreasing with every generation. All of my desktops, be it Windows, OS X, or Linux have no problems going into and out of S3.

Thanks for the updates and roadmap! Very much appreciated. The delay is no big deal since we know what's going on.

Another vote for a "safe boot" mod, which would make it easier for everyone to test RCs in a clean environment (or even troubleshoot later on). A clear cut API for add-ons would certainly help, but maybe should wait for 5.1 at this point.

I meant the shutdown issue. I have been initiating shut down with the power button since when I tried it from the web GUI it froze. But this morning after shutting down, when I brought it back up the array was stopped and it should not have been. So I reverted back to rc12a for now. No idea what causes it, but I'll check out rc13 back on my primary unRAID to see if that ends up showing the same issue. This is 99.9% likely a plugin issue, not a core release issue. I have had many issues with the web GUI and they are always related to a plugin process hanging or not failing gracefully. Try removing all your pulgins and you'll probably have no issues. When this crops up for me, I can telnet in and look for webGUI hook that is stuck. Since almost all plugins have some shutdown action on array stop, you'll likely see one of your plugins is not shutting down properly and not returning properly, so the GUI is waiting for it to complete - usually a permissions issue, broken download URL, or something like that. From there you can either try and fix the shut-down problem, or alert the plugin author that there is a case that the plugin does not exit gracefully. Cheers, whiteatom Since plugins will be supported in 5.0 final, it would seem that the plugin spec should specify how plugins should handle these scenarios more gracefully and with appropriate error logging. Either that or the webGUI should have a time-out period to go ahead and kill the plugin if it does not respond in a reasonable amount of time. Perhaps both would be the most reliable.

In case this helps track down some of the NFS issues, here is the details of the fix from OpenELEC: https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues/2323 They upgraded libnfs to 1.6. Some more detail from the libnfs github: https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs/issues/33

Almost forgot to say - glad we're getting close!

Without getting into this too much, I'll just list the reason I use NFS on my OpenELEC box: the CPU utilization is noticeably lower and the throughput higher. Doesn't matter on most OpenELEC or XBMC machines, but is important for the ones with weaker CPUs such as the ARM-based ones. This is also true of many media streamers that use ARM CPUs.

I'd recommend something running good open source firmware, like OpenWrt, Gargoyle, or Tomato. DD-WRT is popular as well, but I find it bloated and the development seems a bit haphazard without clear milestones (releases) or even a central source of information. The TP-Link WDR-3600 or WDR-4300 are good deals with simultaneous dual-band wifi, gigabit ethernet switches, and OpenWrt, Gargoyle, and DD-WRT support. I recommend Gargoyle if you get one of these and are new to routers. The Asus routers mentioned aboveare excellent if you want to run stock firmware, but a bit more expensive. Their firmware is actually based on Tomato (I believe), which is part of why it's so good!

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HP N40L here on RC11 and I have a successful gigabit connection to my router.

Also, seems like it's about time to split this thread up into more manageable ones. Or maybe there should be a new thread with each new version? Actually, probably the best thing would be a separate SimpleFeatures subforum. As an aside, having "user customizations" and "plugin design" be separate, but so similar, makes no sense any more.

I don't have this problem with stats, but the syslog viewer is painfully slow. It pegs one of my CPU cores to 100%, locking up that tab in Chrome, until it's done rendering (30-60 seconds). Same thing happened on 1.05 too. FWIW, my log is 3800 lines long. Choosing a shorter log is faster of course.

Temp shows up as blank for me also on RC11/SF1.0.11. Output of "sensors -u" on my HP Microserver N40L: k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: temp1_input: 34.000 temp1_max: 70.000 temp1_crit: 100.000 temp1_crit_hyst: 95.000 CPU is an AMD Turion II Neo N40L. As an aside, System Profiler->Processor Info incorrectly lists the current/maximum speed of this CPU as 1500/2200MHz respectively. Looking at proc/cpuinfo, the correct info 800/1500MHz is there. Not sure if this is SF related...

Bootstrap sites are everywhere these days. It's very handy for throwing a page site very quickly. You can even make it quicker by buying a custom bootstrap theme which I think your example has done. Plenty here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/ I'm not sure if the web server in unraid can handle css3 though. Free opensource admin management interface based on bootstrap here (live demo there too): http://usman.it/free-responsive-admin-template/ Includes a file manager and picture gallery features. This could really step up the look and feel of unraid, even beyond simplefeatures (don't get me wrong, SF is great too).

thanks for working on this!

thanks!