I know this is actually not the right place for this post, as it mainly concerns plugins, but I want to make you - Limetech - aware that the fact that you allow immature plugins to be distributed, backfires on your product, giving your nice product in itself a bad name and that you should better take responsibility to avoid this! I would say even prevent this; better fewer working plugins than rubbish.
There was even a plugin that presented an error message on your main page right after install; how about that!
After reading a good deal on the internet, I decided to take the plunge and go for unRAID.
The main reasons being:
- data protection, at the least capacity loss
- energy efficiency (no unnecessary drive spinning)
- and a number of plugins: Sleepmode, mySQL (for XBMC), Spotweb, Sickbeard, CouchPotato and SABnzbd
So parted from my well-earned money and ordered the new hardware and the unRAID Plus license. Who could have guessed that some of the plugins for this OS are so IMMATURE and allowed to be released at all!
So far, only the "guarantee" of dataprotection, the array with cache drive and MySQL are giving my joy.
As for the rest, I'm confident it will work satisfactory someday, but not at the moment. Not even something simple as sleep mode is working ... so there goes energy efficiency!
If someone can prove me wrong I'll be all ears, but after spending days and weeks (no, not just a couple of hours, but sometimes entire days and a couple of weekends) trying to get things working, I doubt it very much.
So I'll just use it as a basic media server, switching it off and on as required, by hand at the box.
But don't expect me to promote the overall system, which I normally do when I'm enthusiastic about it. Now I'm just disappointed!
So what needs to be fixed for me to become satisfied:
- Sleepmode
- Integration of Sickbeard, Couchpotato and SABnzbd which individually work satisfactorily - although not so much for Dutch people, hence the reason for Spotweb