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I just installed Emby on my unRAID server after Plex got borked a while back. I didn't have the patience to troubleshoot Plex to get it working again so I thought I'd give Emby a try. I was just using the free version of Plex so I haven't lost anything in that regard. I got the Emby binhex docker installed and configured along with my HDHR tuners. I can get live TV fine and it plays videos and movies from the libraries I set up. I unlocked the app for Premiere but I can't seem to get the default recording folder configured correctly. I assume the recording folder has to be placed on the unRAID server but I'm unclear as to the proper path designation. I have lots of shares setup on my server with one for TV shows so I'd like to point it to that share if possible. On another note, the guide just seems to list channels in a random sequence. Is there a way to show the listing in numerical order? I missed the part about channel mapping during setup so I may have to do that to get the correct channel designations for my OTA locals. The actual and virtual channel numbers for several stations in my area have changed so they aren't matching up with the channel numbers in the guide. I'm just not sure how to go about mapping the channels after the fact. Also, when I select the Channels tab at the top it just lists the channels by name and doesn't show the corresponding channel numbers. Is there a way to get them to show up? Update: Right after I posted this I went back and checked the guide and now everything seems to be in numerical sequence so I have no idea what is going on there. I decided to leave the recording path blank as it says if you do that it will place the recordings in the Program Data folder on the server. I have no idea where that is in unRAID, but right now it's recording a show and I have no idea where it's being placed on the server. I forgot to mention that I'm using nVidia Shields with Emby for live TV and playback of movies and TV shows. Further update: I did some digging and discovered that the show being recorded is being stored on my cache drive in unRAID. I would like for any recordings to be placed on the server instead but I'm not sure of the proper path name. It doesn't seem to like it when I use the path \\tower\TV Shows\Emby Recordings. Should I be using the server IP address instead of "tower" in the path? Do I need to include the port number as well? I haven't had to dabble in any of this for quite some time so I'm a bit rusty on the proper syntax. Still further update: I was finally able to get it set up with a proper path to record shows. I had to use one of the libraries that I had set up for my TV shows. The only issue I still have is that I need to map the local channels that had changed their virtual channels when a few of our local channels switched broadcast frequencies. The guide is showing the actual channels instead of the virtual ones (i.e channel 13 changed to channel 12 but all of our channel guides still show it as channel 13 whereas Emby is showing it as channel 12).

I just ran into this same problem. There was a file stuck in my cache drive that I could not clear. There was a copy of the file in the Share folder so it was apparently moved at some point, but it must have only been copied and not actually moved. Just to be safe, I copied the file from the Share folder to my main PC and then deleted the file from the Share. I invoked the mover and it moved the file from the cache drive to the Share folder to restore the deleted file and then it was cleared from the cache automatically. FYI - I had all of the settings for the cache drive previously set to all of the settings recommended in the above posts. I can only assume that perhaps something glitched the transfer during a move and it copied the file but failed to delete it upon completion.

Just wanted to update everyone on the situation. I was finally able to get the Intel NIC recognized in my server. I had to stop the array and then go into the Settings tab and select Network Settings. Scroll down to the area for Interface Rules and then swap the MAC addresses for the devices for eth0 and eth1 using the drop down menus. I hit apply, but once that was done the network interface no longer functioned since the ethernet cable on the server was still connected to the onboard NIC. I suppose I could have just swapped the cable between the onboard NIC and the Intel NIC, but I opted to shutdown the server using the keyboard and monitor attached directly to the server. Once the server was shut down I swapped the cable and powered it back up again. Once it booted I had activity LEDs on the Intel NIC showing a connection. I reconnected to the server from my PC via the web GUI and all is working well again. I had been getting transfer rates between my PC and the server at around 78 MBS using the Intel NIC whereas it dropped down to about 40 MBS using the onboard NIC. This whole thing came about when I swapped my USB flash drive with the unRAID files to a different USB port. I could not get the system to boot until I went in and moved the flash drive back to the top of the boot order. I can only assume that somehow the onboard NIC was automatically reconfigured as eth0 when that happened.

OK, I just edited the network-rules.cfg file and renamed etho to eth1 and vice versa and swapped the position in the file so the group with eth0 was at the top followed by eth1. I booted it up with the ethernet cable connected to the Intel NIC and still got the error message that it could not find eth0. I did not disable the onboard Realtek controller when I did this so maybe it automatically scans onboard devices before PCI ports. In any case, the server is working with the Realtek controller and I'm not seeing any effect on file transfers or steaming of 4k videos so I guess if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Thanks for everyone's inputs. I'll probably still work on it when I have more time, but for now I'll just go with what's working.

I have tried four different cards in the two PCIe x1 slots. Looking at the System Devices tab in unRAID it shows the Intel NIC as shown below. If I go into the UEFI BIOS and disable the onboard Realtek controller it won't connect or show any activity lights on the Intel controller with the ethernet cable attached. I get an error message at the very end of the boot screen saying it can't find eth0. I was looking at the network-rules.cfg file and it shows the following info: # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="40:16:7e:a7:e4:85", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" # PCI device 0x8086:0x107d (e1000e) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:15:17:0d:ab:58", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1" # PCI device 0x8086:0x10d3 (e1000e) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1b:21:53:c4:cf", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth2" I'm wondering if I manually edit the file and swap etho and eth1 in the NAME attribute if it will then look for the Intel controller. I'll give that a try and see if it works. The LEDs on the Intel NIC do come on when I have the Realtek controller enabled and the ethernet cable plugged into the Intel card, but it doesn't have any connection, probably because it's only working with etho and not eth1. If I disable the Realtek onboard controller and plug the cable into the Intel card I get no activity lights at all. I'll try the manual edit of the network-rules.cfg file and report back.

I installed a new (refurbished) Intel CT Gigabit adapter and disabled the onboard Realtek ethernet controller. When it boots up I get the message that it can't find eth0 so it can't set up the IP address even though the ethernet cable is connected to the Intel NIC. I have it set up with a static IP in a range that I set up outside of the DHCP range of addresses used by the router. I re-enabled the Realtek controller and now it works, but it's still refusing to recognize the intel NIC. This is confusing because I never had any issues with using an Intel NIC before and all of a sudden unRAID is just refusing to recognize it.

Running unRAID Pro 6.9.2 with 184TB currently with 55.7 TB free. I'm using a 24-bay Supermicro server rack with an 8-bay Supermicro rack piggybacked onto the larger case. I cut a hole in the bottom of the 8-bay rack to feed the SATA cables from the controllers in the lower rack. I have three 8-port LSi SATA controllers plus six onboard SATA ports and two eSATA ports on an ASUS A88X-PRO motherboard with an AMD A10-7700K CPU and 32GB of DDR3 memory. I'm running 28 data drives of either 4TB or 8TB capacities with two parity drives and a 1TB SSD cache drive. I can expand the array to 224TB without having to upgrade the parity drives. I've got five 8TB drives sitting on the shelf already pre-cleared and ready to insert into the array should any of the drives die. Been running unRAID for over 13 years now. The pic with the drives in the anti-static bags are the drives that have been retired from the array over the years that were replaced by larger drives. There were more drives than than, but I destroyed any drives that failed and recycled them. The ones in the photo have all been wiped clean and tested good.

I agree completely. The list of drives was buried in the BIOS so I had to dig deep to find it. What a ridiculous thing to have. I've been using the same setup for years and never noticed the boot drive list before.

Success! I still couldn't get the system to boot after making the above changes. I never got around to trying options 1 or 2 from Frank1940's suggestions. I got back into the UEFI BIOS settings and I drilled down until I discovered that the boot order showed the USB drive as the 15th device in the boot order even though I had specified it as the first boot device elsewhere in the settings. Once I changed it so the Sandisk flash drive was the first device in the boot order it booted clean and I am able to access the server via the web GUI on my PC. Thanks to all for your help and suggestions. I guess when I swapped the flash drive to a different USB port it changed the boot order. The option to set that was buried in one of those options that made you scroll down in the screen to find it.

OK, just copied the 6.9.2 bz* files over to the flash drive and reran make_bootable.bat as Administrator again just to be on the safe side, but still no love. I'll try it again with the /syslinux folder copied over

I made a backup copy of the contents previously and it copied with no problems. I ran the make_bootable.bat script on the flash drive connected to my Windows 10 PC and it still would not boot. I just ran chkdsk.exe on the flash drive and it reported no errors. The server was shut down when I pulled the USB drive. I never disconnect anything while it's still powered up, except the ethernet cable. The system goes through the initial check of the HBA controllers and lists all of the drives attached. It cycles back to the initial Asus splash screen and blinks once or twice and then tells me to reboot and select the proper boot device. I've gone back into the UEFI setup screen numerous times and made sure the Sandisk flash drive is configured as the first boot device and it still won't boot. The system booted into 6.10.1-rc1 with no problems after updating the OS. I had been having issues with my Intel PCIe NIC and I had removed the flash drive to avoid damaging it. I moved it to another USB port and then tried to boot the system back up. That's when the problem started. It's got me completely stumped. So I can just copy the 6.9.2 files over from the downloaded zip file, but just copy the bz* files and leave everything else as is?

Tried that with no luck. Can I just download unRAID 6.9.2 and overwrite the files on the flash drive? I'm wondering if this is a glitch in 6.10.1-rc.

I'm running unRAID Pro version 6.10.0-rc1. My system was running fine before I removed the USB flash drive to access a couple of eSATA ports located right below it on the rear panel to attach some cables. I moved it so I wouldn't take the chance of damaging the flash drive. I relocated it to another USB port on the rear panel and then booted up into the BIOS to make sure it was still configured as the first boot device. Now it keeps telling me that I need to insert a proper boot device. I moved the flash drive back to the original USB slot and checked to make sure it was still configured as the first boot device but it still won't boot. I can see the flash drive internal LED flash when the system first starts up so it's being read. I've been using the same flash drive ever since I first purchased unRAID back in February of 2008 and it has never failed to boot before. I don't know if something somehow got corrupted on the flash drive that is preventing it from booting or what. Unfortunately, I have been extremely lax in making backups of the flash drive so the latest one I have is back in 2015. Here's a screenshot of the files contained on the current flash drive: I am unable to provide a diagnostics log since it won't boot.

It's attached to the end of the first post. Sorry, that's the syslog file not the diagnostics. I'll run it and upload the file tower-diagnostics-20210901-1713.zip I'm using an Asus A88X-PRO motherboard with an AMD A10-7700K Radeon R7 CPU and 32 GB of DDR3 memory. I'm using three 8-port SATA controllers plus the six onboard SATA internal ports for the data drives and dual parity drives and currently one external eSATA port for the cache drive. I plan to connect the 2nd eSATA port to an empty slot in the server rack to use for pre-clearing new drives. I have a 24-bay Supermicro rack and an 8-bay Supermicro rack all running off the ASUS motherboard via the onboard SATA ports and 8-port controllers.

I'm running unRAID Pro 6.9.2 on a 184TB server with 28 data drives, two parity drives, and a 1 TB SSD cache drive. I rebooted the array yesterday and now I can connect to the server. I'm using an Intel CT Gigabit PCI-e ethernet controller that has worked fine for as long as I can remember. I tried using a different Intel adapter in the same slot and still nothing. I had a two-port SATA controller in a PCI-e x1 slot for my cache drive so I pulled that and installed the NIC in the slot. Booted up and still no connection. I tried the onboard Realtek ethernet controller and it works fine. For some reason it seems that unRAID is either no longer recognizing the adapter or it's just not loading the drivers. I checked the System Devices under the Tools tab and both the Intel PCI-e NIC and the onboard Realtek NIC are both shown so I'm stumped as to why one works and the other one doesn't. I upgraded the unRAID OS to version 6.10.1-rc1 to see if that would help but still get the same result. I've attached the log file for anyone that can decipher it.tower-syslog-20210901-2036.zip