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I am also looking for a good MiniITX mobo/CPU combo for my Node 304 case. Did you end up using this board?

Yea i can see why that is in demand. Wish I could get my hands on one. Since I can’t seem to get one - any other recommendations? I would like to start getting the parts ordered and get the build underway but I cant seem to pin down a mono/cpu combo.

Gotcha - thanks. Unfortunately after a bit of searching I haven’t been able to find that one available anywhere Any other recommendations for a miniITX board/CPU combo?

Thanks for this! I do prefer to buy new parts if possible. But it if fits the bill I could always look at eBay. one question though - it looks like both of the boards you recommended are microATX, but the case I have (fractal Node 304) is MiniITX. Any recommendations for similar boards in the miniITX form factor?

Gotcha. Thank you! From the sound of it I may go with something newer. Unfortunately I don’t think I k ow enough about them either so many options!

I will be using 6 drives and not super worried about watt-pinching. Really just looking for something that is relatively low powered compared to my current setup (an old lime-tech md-100? Tower with 15 drives.). what CPU would you recommend for use with the Gigabyte C246N-WU2?

Great - thank you - that i opens up my motherboard options then So does anyone have any recommendations for a good CPU/mono combo? I have been doing a lot of googling but the choices seem to be kind of overwhelming.

Thank you for that great info! So based on that, if I chose a motherboard with only 4 ports then it seems that this one might be a good choice? https://www.amazon.com/FebSmart-Expansion-System-Marvell-Controller-FS-S4-Pro/dp/B08LW3XXYG/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ASM1064&qid=1629383363&sr=8-2

I would love to find a miniOTX board with 6+ Data ports but haven’t had much luck there. Any body know of one? I would really like the ability to have 6 drives.

I was looking at something like this for the motherboard: https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-A520I-AC-Interfaces-Motherboard/dp/B08F7BHDLY/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=mini+itx+motherboard&qid=1629163444&s=electronics&sr=1-7 and it only has 4 SATA ports so I was thinking I would get a PCIe data card like this: https://www.amazon.com/JESOT-Controller-Express-Expression-Profile/dp/B07VZZ11GB/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFSgi2wz760Rdt8b53t1Xa9VEpVgghQ5quVzY-GgEfKc54Sxt1Fp-2xoCwh8QAvD_BwE&hvadid=241901348089&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9004717&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1772256487205598045&hvtargid=kwd-2934085525&hydadcr=24633_10399729&keywords=pci+express+sata+card&qid=1629163353&sr=8-5 not sure about which CPU and ram to get yet - any thoughts or feedback would be welcome.

I currently have a very old, very large Unraid server with a bunch of old drives in it. It works great but it is big and loud and draws a lot of power. Its one of the original Lime Tech towers with 15 drive bays. I would like to downsize a to a much smaller case and replace the drives with a fewer number of larger drives. I ordered the Fractal Design Node 304 case and I am looking for recommendations on what mobo/cpu/ram to use. I would be using the server primarily for file storage and light Plex usage. any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

I’ll give that a shot. Thank you! I know I am waaaaay overdue for an upgrade to my hardware but this thing just keep working!

flash drive is a 4G with 3.51G free. RAM is 2GB

when I try to update to 6.9.2, i see the following: plugin: updating: unRAIDServer.plg plugin: downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dnld.lime-technology.com/stable/unRAIDServer-6.9.2-x86_64.zip ... failed (File I/O error) plugin: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dnld.lime-technology.com/stable/unRAIDServer-6.9.2-x86_64.zip download failure (File I/O error) i have tried several times with the same result. any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

yep - it seems to be working now and I love the UI. Thanks for putting this together!!

ok i think it figured it out! there were two issues: 1) when I added the smartthings info to the config.json, i overwrote the "config" platform that came with the docker container. 2) while I was messing around with it, i removed and re-added the docker container in unraid a few times, and the last time around I had forgotten to install the smartthings plugin again. so I did the following: 1) restored my config.json to the original one and restarted the docker container. 2) loaded the WebUI and installed the smartthings plugin 3) updated my config.json (see below). I found the issue by going to the dockers tab in unraid and clicking the logs icon on the right side next to the homebridge container. I was able to see that during startup, it was choking on the smartthings item. My new working config.json { "bridge": { "name": "Homebridge", "username": "CC:22:3D:E3:CE:30", "port": 51826, "pin": "031-45-154" }, "description": "This is an example configuration file with gui. You can use this as a template for creating your own configuration file containing devices you actually own.", "accessories": [], "platforms": [ { "platform": "config", "name": "Config", "port": 8124, "sudo": true }, { "platform": "SmartThings", "name": "SmartThings", "app_url": "https://graph.api.smartthings.com:443/api/smartapps/installations/", "app_id": "my-app-id", "access_token": "my-access-token" } ] }

good point - I will give that a shot. Thanks for all your help!

so I am not quite there yet. I was able to get homebridge working, and I reset my home in the home app on my ios device. Then I added Homebridge using the QR code in the homebridge UI. But I cant get any of my devices to show up. I have the smartthings JSON Complete API smartapp installed in my smartthings, and I have added all of my accessories to it. I copied the config file content from the smart app and updated my config file in homebridge but I am not seeign any accessories in the home app. my config file is below: { "bridge": { "name": "Homebridge", "username": "CC:22:3D:E3:CE:30", "port": 51826, "pin": "031-45-154" }, "description": "This is an example configuration file with gui. You can use this as a template for creating your own configuration file containing devices you actually own.", "accessories": [], "platforms": [ { "platform": "SmartThings", "name": "SmartThings", "app_url": "https://graph.api.smartthings.com:443/api/smartapps/installations/", "app_id": "my-app-id", "access_token": "my-access-token" } ] }

wait - i found the problem - I still had my \appdata\homebridge folder with data from a previous install. Once I cleared that folder and then reinstalled your docker it started working. Thanks!!

i dont have any plugins yet. all i did was install the container in unraid and launch the web gui.

thanks for posting this. I just installed and when I go to WebUI it opens serverip:8124 and says This site can’t be reached

thanks!! I just installed it but I don't the the WebUI option. Is there an additional Step I need in order to enable the webUI?

yea thats a real bummer - it would be really great to have an unraid friendly, "plug and play" container that we could use. I used to use homebridge with the smartthings plugin on my my mac mini, but I woudl love to have this running on unraid.

hmm - that makes sense, but I change the port to 8080 in the docker config in unraid and tried again and I still was unable to load the Web UI.

I just tried following the directions and I cant get the Web UI option in unraid. My config is attached - can anyone spot anything wrong? I have tried setting network to both Bridge and Host and neither option seemed to work. If I go to http://serverip/3354 it doesnt load anything.