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I use an ASRock IMB-1314 motherboard in a U-NAS 810A case. I love that the compact case has room for eight 3.5" hard drives and that the motherboard has eight SATA slots plus four M.2 slots, two of which I use for NVME cards. My problem is I'd like to have a ninth SATA port to add a 2.5" solid state drive which the case supports. I've seen an inexpensive Xiwai B/M-Key M.2 to SATA Adapter which fits into one of my unused M.2 slots, but when I connected a hard drive to it (along with power) I didn't see it populating in Unraid. I checked motherboard BIOS settings to see if I needed to change any setting to "turn it on" but couldn't find anything. I also couldn't find any Unraid setting that might be applicable. The card was cheap and might have been a dud, but I'm wondering if anyone has an experience turning one of their M.2 slots into an additional SATA slot and using it in Unraid. Did you have to do anything special? Are there any caveats? Is there anything I can do to see where it might fail at? As an aside, I don't want to use my PCIe slots for the SSD drive. Also, my plan for this SSD drive is as a temporary dump when transferring large files over the network so the HHD speeds aren't a bottle neck. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

There's a docker file I use (php:apache), but after installing it I needed to make some changes via command line such as installing software like imagemagick and installing php extensions like mysqli and pdo. Each time I update the docker I also find myself having to rerun these commands. I'm wondering if its possible to make my own docker that builds off of another one, but makes my changes to it too. If so, how would I go about making this? And is it possible to make it in a way where I can use it make docker containers on other unraid servers for myself or share it publicly?

I did make this post, and it seems like a docker based solution would be better than a plugin.

Thank you both for your assistance, it seems like a docker would make more sense.

Thank you both very much! I have two M.2 slots I can use for drives. I'll plan on two NVME drives set up in a pool with RAID 1 and then periodic backups of it. Backups aside, if one of the pool drive fails, does Unraid have any support for detecting this and allowing me to remove, replace, and "reload" the bad drive? Can I also setup one drive now (not protected) and add another drive later, like how I can add a parity drive later to an array?

For an old build I made an array device with parity using high capacity HHDs that I stored things like my movie files. I also made a pool device on an NVME drive that I used to store my apps, dockers, system files, and a Maria Database. I like this setup, and want to replicate it for a new build, but I hate that the pool data isn't protected. What is the best way to protect my pool data?

Requesting a Unraid Music Player Plugin that could take advantage of the speaker output jack already on the motherboard. The plugin could read a folder for audio files and randomly shuffle and continuously loop through that folder. It would be nice if it could automatically detect and include or exclude recently added or removed audio files. Only minimal controls (play, stop, pause) needed. The idea would be to take advantage of existing hardware and to feed approved audio files into store, gym, lobby, elevator speaker systems, into a telephone PBX system for hold music, and other type environments.

I never did. It would be awesome if there was a premade solution but I wasn't able to find anything. I recently did come across creating VMs and passing sound through that. It's a bigger footprint than needed, but looks like a lightweight Windows 98 VM with the sound configured and running a media player might be at least one solution:

I created a docker container using a repository (php:apache). Using the command line inside the container I tried to install some software: pip install xxxxx I get the following error: error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is externally managed ╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to install. If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package, create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv. Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make sure you have python3-full installed. If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application, it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed. See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information. note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages. hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification. Trying to resolve the issue using the provided suggestions doesn't resolve the issue. Is there a trick to installing python packages?

I have an Unraid server that is already going to be deployed in an area. Background music is needed and I'm hoping the server can also be the music player as well. Will a docker container be able to output audio to the motherboard's speaker output by default? If possible but not by default, are there any special settings that need to be configured? Or maybe not a docker, but a plugin would have access to the audio output? If this already exists, does anyone have any recommendations? I would like to have a share folder I can add mp3 files to and the software automatically plays the files randomly (ideally with crossfade). It would also be awesome if the software would automatically recognize new files or the removal of files to include or exclude from the shuffle. No controls would be needed, but have the ability to pause/resume and control volume would be nice.

I have a lot of headless computers attached to the same network my Unraid server is connected to. I'm looking at how to manage them and it seems like Ansible is the best way forward. I have no experience with Ansible but watched some explanatory videos yesterday. It seems like I'll need a control node and I was hoping to use SOMETHING on the Unraid server for that. My normal go-to is community applications, but I only see Semaphore which seems like an add-on GUI for Ansible. I also see Google results for setting Ansible in a docker, but I don't know how to do that outside of community applications. What is the best way to create a Ansible control node on Unraid and how would I interact with it?

I'm use to installing dockers from community applications, but I found some Docker instructions for a tool I would like that isn't in CA. However, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to follow them for Docker in an Unraid setup. The specific instructions I'm trying to follow are: https://hub.docker.com/r/overv/openstreetmap-tile-server I'm trying to accomplish this: docker run -e UPDATES=enabled -v /absolute/path/to/luxembourg.osm.pbf:/data/region.osm.pbf -v /absolute/path/to/luxembourg.poly:/data/region.poly -v osm-data:/data/database/ overv/openstreetmap-tile-server import And then later this: docker run -p 8080:80 -v osm-data:/data/database/ -d overv/openstreetmap-tile-server run Note one ends in import and another ends in run. Would I enter this information into the command line? Do I need to add any additional parameters/fields into the mix like I see CA or Unraid adding (ie: -e TZ="America/New_York" -e HOST_OS="Unraid" -e HOST_HOSTNAME="Tower"). For some other situations I've clicked "Add Container" under the "Docker" tab and added the repository and completed the various fields, but nothing for something like this import/run setup. And it was always a crap shoot if the new docker would even start up or not. How would I proceed?

I've now created several working dockers by clicking "Add Container" on Unraid's Docker page, putting the docker's pull name as the repository, and adding ports and drives as needed. (For example, adding a container port 80 to an arbitrary port on the host.) I wanted to start a new project with a barebone's server so I tried to create a docker with the alpine repository by using "alpine". The docker was successful creating itself but in "Stopped" mode with pressing "Start" not doing anything and nothing is showing in the logs. Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you

There's a docker I need. I've been able to figure out how to install it from a repository (part1:part2) and add the needed ports and mappings. My issue is I need to make a modification to it. Online docker forum posts say things like "add RUN <commands> to my dockerfile" but I'm not sure how that translates to Unraid's use of docker. I've noticed I can open up the docker's console and run the command and it works just fine. It survives restarts but doesn't persist when I edit the docker settings. Can I specify a respositry of "part1:part2 RUN <commands>"? Or can I utilize advanced settings and specify something in the Extra Parameters or Post Arguments fields where it will run the commands when creating the docker instance?