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My wife has longevity in her genes, I don’t so it’s highly likely that I’ll predecease her. She’s smart but not particularly tech savvy. Our unraid server has a ton of favorite music, movies, photos, videos .. you get the picture. The unraid web UI is great for me, but I wish there was an appliance like interface for her. As a parallel our home automation system has a programming UI for me but Anne sees a relatively simple control / status dashboard. Ideas would be welcomed – Thanks.

hi cassius - no that didn't work either. cheers - paul

Thanks Joe - unfortunately this didn't seem to work. As a test I modified the standard User Scripts plugin as you suggested #ADD_ON_MENU User Scripts #ADD_ON_URL user_scripts #ADD_ON_REFRESH=10 #ADD_ON_VERSION....... Restarted unMENU but the page never auto-refreshed. Tried this in Chrome & Firefox same results. Main auto-refreshes fine in both browsers. I'll continue to investigate. cheers paul

I guess that this is a question for Joe: What's the easiest way to make a plug-in page auto refresh? I looked at unmenu.awk and saw the MENU[2] test for main page refresh. Should I add a similar check for my page or is there a better way to do this? cheers - paul

Thanks guys. As you said Joe - looking at the unMENU files , after getting enough bash scripting knowledge to be dangerous, I discovered that unMENU has excellent comments and is explicitly designed to allow anyone to add all sorts of top level tabs. Excellent stuff!! Took me a couple of minutes to copy / edit 50-unmenu-user_scripts.cgi in the /boot/unmenu folder and then point my edited 50-unmenu-paul_scripts.cgi to point to a different ScriptDirectory. thanx - paul

Hi guys, is there a way that I could clone the 'User Scripts' Tab to create a 'My Scripts' tab (or an arbitrary number of them) containing a collection of my personal scripts. I know that I could add these to the existing User Scripts tab but I'd like to reduce gui clutter. What would I need to edit to accomplish this and how? Any advice appreciated cheers - paul

Thanks Squid! I just installed the bitrot script with the mod that allows it to run in unRAID 5 & I'm currently evaluating it. The potential cool thing about the corz solution it that the hash files it creates should work with the windows version of corz so that I can right click on a share file in windows and get an immediate verification. More food for thought cheers - paul

Hi Guys, I've been using Corz checksum for windows over the network to add hash checking to my unRAID shares. I'd like to try the linux version of corz checksum on my unraid server. The install files are here http://corz.org/linux/software/checksum/. Looks like I need to install the bin.tar.gz file to get the script & symlinks. What to I need to do to install this as part of my unRAID installation? Any guidance would be appreciated. cheers - paul

Thanks (or should I say Kansha) Sideband I'll give that a try if operating headless doesn't work. cheers

Wow that's amazing - great basis for 'cat ate my homework'. How did you discover the guilty party? Our Sparky is very smart but he'd have to log in and invoke power down. I usually operate headless but recently I connected a keyboard & monitor for a preclear so given your cat experience I'll disconnect the keyboard just in case. cheers

Hi guys, My server has taken to powering itself down in the early hours of the morning. I’m running 5.0.5 pro. The powerdown 2.06 package is installed via unmenu 1.6. I’m attaching a couple of logs. Any insights would be appreciated. syslog-20140722-033922.zip syslog-20140723-024353.zip

I incorrectly typed ‘mdcmd set invalidslot 99’ in step 2 I actually entered 'initconfig'

Dgachk thanks for the advice . I acted before you posted. Here’s what I did: 1 Opened telnet session to root. 2 Entered ‘mdcmd set invalidslot 99’ – this cleared all my disk assignments. 3 Manually assigned my disks (including the one that had redballed) to the appropriate slots. 4 Started the array with the ‘parity is correct’ box checked. 5 Stopped the array & removed the disk that had redballed. 6 Started the array & checked that disk 6 was being emulated. 7 Compared 50 GB of system files with their disk 6 backups to check emulation. 8 Stopped array & replaced disk 6 with the pre-cleared new drive. 9 Started array / rebuild.

Hi, I’m running unRAIDServer-5.0.5-i386 with 15 drives plus parity. One of my drives red balled (disk6) & I removed it with no problems. The array emulated the missing drive & life continued while I waited for the replacement disk which arrived today. I powered the array down to connect the new drive for preclearing but when I restarted it looked like I had a corrupted USB stick. Eventually I restored the most recent unRAID backup onto the stick and restarted. Unfortunately the backup predated my latest parity drive assignment. I’d moved the original 2TB parity drive to disk10 and added a new 3TB parity drive. When I assign the drives to their correct slots I get red balls & Wrong indications for parity & drive10 and the array won’t start. Obviously the missing drive6 is no longer emulated. Is there a way to force the array to accept my parity & drive10 assignments and restart trusting that parity is valid? I’d appreciate any advice on how to proceed. BTW disk15 always adds 30C to its reported temperature.

Guys, I took your great advice, upgraded to V5.0, & replaced my parity disk with a 3 GB drive. Unmenu is working fine as is the UPS interface. I'm currently doing a parity check in preparation for replacing one of my smaller drives with the old parity drive. I looks like parity checking is quite a bit slower than V4.7 and file access during the check is sluggish. I'll check the forum for similar comments & ideas. Bottom line easy move to V5 & thanks for the helpful comments. cheers - paul

Sureguy & Prostuff1 thanks for the great replies! I'm delighted. Looks like I totally got the wrong impression about V5. thanks again paul

Hi guys Lots of info on the forum about 4.7 -> 5.0 rc as I understand it these are the pros and cons: pros: use 3TB and larger drives cons: no unmenu no auto UPS shutdown via unmenu reduced stability? Looks like these cons are BS based on replies 9/30/13 These cons are complete BS based on upgrade experience Are these correct & am I missing any pros / cons? cheers - paul

This is in response to a YouTube comment from lapdcrash. I can't post the link on YouTube so I'll do it here. Q:wow, that is? quiet......... Nobody asked yet on the forum, what are you using to hold up the hard drives? A:I'm using metal shelf brackets to hold the array together. The whole thing is attached to the rack by 4 nylon ties and can be removed as a unit in a couple of minutes. Here's a link to the original post where I described this http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1311.msg8879#msg8879

Here's a short 1080p movie clip demonstrating the noise level & vibration (8 drives are spun up). You also get to see the home automation pc (shuttle) and the family room htpc which share the rack.

Some Seagate drives are well known for reporting wrong temperature measures, maybe that's one of them. exactly

The drive reports 30 degrees high. Its actually at about ambient 28 degrees.

It's almost silent, the fans are connected through a speed controller and rotate quite slowly. I should post a movie. The drives don't vibrate. Even though the house has an electrostatic precipitator it does get dusty but it sits next to my air compressor and gets a blow out annually. Disk 15 has always reported 30 degrees high, its actually at 28 degrees (just about ambient).

Its sitting on a metal mounting plate salvaged from an ATX case. The plate is mounted on the wood

Back in 2008 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1311.0 I posted my first attempt to create a headless caseless minimalist server. I thought that I’d post today’s version to show how it evolved. The cool thing is that I can swap any drive, sata cable , or interface board in less than two minutes, the motherboard in less than five. Runs cool and silent too (disk15 reports 30 degrees high, always has)

@lensman Thanks I ordered one today from newegg -just cancelled and grabbed this one - thanks!