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My comment on codecs was mostly regarding plex (transcode vs direct play) Roku plays mkv, dts and ac3 so most of my movies play as direct play. Fire tv stick does not support any of the above (in plex) so those have to be transcoded within plex. Kodi uses its own player so its codec and container support is more extensive.

Why's that? I got a Fire TV just so I could stream a few apps and more importantly so I could side-load Kodi. Works great. Embarrassed because my content is so much better than what Netflix or Amazon offers. I have to test out Kodi on the Fire stick... It cant be as good as running Openelec on a dedicated mini PC. I have a couple of fire sticks with kodi on them. They work, but barely. Really slow. Compared to my chromebox running kodi, everything takes much longer on the stick (this is true for kodi, but netflix and plex work pretty well) When I fire up kodi on the stick, it takes about a minute for the widgets to load and weather to update (using either the amber or the mq6 skins). Entering the movies takes about 15-20 seconds (1500 movies in the library). I use plex more often on the stick as it is much snappier. I switch to kodi when plex has the wrong or off sync subtitles (kodi's subtitle addons are kicka$$) Every once in a while I get tempted to buy the bigger fire tv and give that a try. If it's snappy with kodi, it might be the best solution for a casual htpc (I don't think anything would replace my chromebox kodi hooked up to a projector with hd surround). I have a roku 3 as well, wired to lan. It has more codec support and tends to do more direct play which I like, but it has no kodi and the Amazon prime interface is ancient and ugly. To sum up, I'm using a combo of chromebox (kodi) and roku 3 in the man cave. And I have fire sticks in other rooms with kodi sideloaded (they also do netflix, prime, plex and espn3 for soccer) I am using Nvidia Shield Tv and I love it. Kodi working good, supports a ton more codecs than the fire tv, and roku 3 also I think. Does the nvidia shield have amazon prime? I keep hearing conflicting reports

Why's that? I got a Fire TV just so I could stream a few apps and more importantly so I could side-load Kodi. Works great. Embarrassed because my content is so much better than what Netflix or Amazon offers. I have to test out Kodi on the Fire stick... It cant be as good as running Openelec on a dedicated mini PC. I have a couple of fire sticks with kodi on them. They work, but barely. Really slow. Compared to my chromebox running kodi, everything takes much longer on the stick (this is true for kodi, but netflix and plex work pretty well) When I fire up kodi on the stick, it takes about a minute for the widgets to load and weather to update (using either the amber or the mq6 skins). Entering the movies takes about 15-20 seconds (1500 movies in the library). I use plex more often on the stick as it is much snappier. I switch to kodi when plex has the wrong or off sync subtitles (kodi's subtitle addons are kicka$$) Every once in a while I get tempted to buy the bigger fire tv and give that a try. If it's snappy with kodi, it might be the best solution for a casual htpc (I don't think anything would replace my chromebox kodi hooked up to a projector with hd surround). I have a roku 3 as well, wired to lan. It has more codec support and tends to do more direct play which I like, but it has no kodi and the Amazon prime interface is ancient and ugly. To sum up, I'm using a combo of chromebox (kodi) and roku 3 in the man cave. And I have fire sticks in other rooms with kodi sideloaded (they also do netflix, prime, plex and espn3 for soccer)

github page says to put the script in /usr/bin and modify a couple of scripts in there. That location is within the container. You can get into the container by typing the following in unraid terminal: docker exec -it Zoneminder-1_29 bash (I'm assuming you are using the 1.29 version) You can retrieve the script from github using wget and copy into /usr/bin You can edit the other scripts with nano (just install nano with apt-get install and then do "export TERM=xterm") Keep in mind thatif you edit or reinstall the container, those changes you made will be lost Good luck Do you think it would be wiser to run zoneminder in a VM since I want to mess around with it so much? I just got my VT-x working on my p8z77-v LK... updating the BIOS fixed the bug where it wasn't working. If you're gonna mess with something too much, it's always better to custom install yourself from scratch. If you just want a working version of zoneminder that is super easy to install, then this is the container for you [emoji6]

I'll look into it It seems there is already a container for this in CA. It is by Bjonness

Check the bios and see if it lists all 8 sticks of ram Could half your ram be dedicated to something else like shared memory for graphics? Because unraid seems to recognize the installed ram correctly, it's just that half of it is not available I have the same board with 8x8GB ram. Unraid dashboard shows 65 thousand something as installed and 64 thousand something allocated

Right, I guess about 140GB might go unused on the 500GB drive. In terms of performance hit, it's not calculating parity or anything, but writing to two separate drives at the same time. As long as there are no port/bus related bottlenecks the speed should be limited to the slower drive's speed

You can put all of those ssd's into a cache pool and put everything on them Btrfs cache pool is very simple it will make sure that every bit of info is stored on two separate drives at any time. It is essentially a very flexible mirroring system

That was my bad, I forgot to update the template. With the new versions, you only have to enter the unraid ip and the port under advanced settings. All other info is now entered in the webgui once installed. I now removed all those unused entries for vera and harmony info from the template.

Hi guys, I had a rather interesting experience installing a pci-e usb3 card in unraid (it didn't work properly) and wanted to share it here so other folks can find it in the future if they are having similar issues. I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard paired with an E5-2670v1 (yes I jumped on the $69 ebay bonanza). Now that I have a server capable of vt-d and an ultra fast processor, I wanted to make this ready for Oculus (if I decide to get one in the near future). But the board has no usb3 ports and Oculus requires 3. So I bought the Oculus recommended Inateck branded pci-e card and popped it in. It worked in unraid 6.1.9, all ports were recognized all devices worked. When I tried to shutdown the server a week later, a nasty surprise. 3 seconds after shutdown, the mobo restarts itself. It took me a while before I relized it was this card causing it. You can imagine the issue with that. During a power outage, ups/apcupsd shuts down the server cleanly, but then the server boots back up. When the ups dies, potential data loss :'( I popped the card into my backup unraid server (different mobo) and it worked fine. Clean shutdowns, no restart. So I thought maybe the issue was an incompatibility with the Supermicro board on my new machine. After some e-mail exchanges with the company's support, I decided to install windows and see what happens (they strongly urged me to test in windows). I unplugged all the hdds from the Supermicro and plugged in a drive with windows. The shutdowns were clean, no restarts. So it had to be an issue with the OS+mobo combo. Before I gave up and returned the card, I had a lightbulb moment. What if I pass the card through to a windows vm? Would it work then? I had to try. I used saarg's method and passed it through to a Win10 vm. Windows picked it right up, auto installed the drivers and everything worked. When I shut down the server, it stayed off I realize that I won't be able to ever reliably use that card in unRAID but only in a VM, but that's ok, because I got it mainly for Oculus, and I would use a windows vm for Oculus anyway. Cheers

If you have a neutral wire in the wall, installing the dimmer switches is a piece of cake. I never used smartthings but I hear it is getting better and better (it has the samsung support behind it). The community is getting larger too so I don't know, it might be a better option in the near future. Vera sure has its shortcomings as well. None of the hubs are perfect. Vera has a web interface you can do all the programming through. It also has smartphone apps for both android and ios but the apps are mainly for devices control and not for programming. I personally use a third party app for mobile control. There are a bunch of those available.

I prefer keeping the other thread as the main support thread, but I realize this thread has a lot of specific info on this container. I thought I had added a link to here in the other thread but I guess I did not. Thanks for letting me know. I'll add links in the other thread as well as in the container description. Thanks

I'll look into it

github page says to put the script in /usr/bin and modify a couple of scripts in there. That location is within the container. You can get into the container by typing the following in unraid terminal: docker exec -it Zoneminder-1_29 bash (I'm assuming you are using the 1.29 version) You can retrieve the script from github using wget and copy into /usr/bin You can edit the other scripts with nano (just install nano with apt-get install and then do "export TERM=xterm") Keep in mind thatif you edit or reinstall the container, those changes you made will be lost Good luck

For the harmony, I have the hub with the basic remote. The hub is fantastic, it can control devices through ir, bluetooth and wifi(http). The remote is also great, battery lasts for over a year, it is rf, so no need to point to anything, etc. The only downside of the remote is the lack of backlighting. ha bridge container is the "Home-Automation-Bridge" container in community applications. If you click on the newly updated, it is in the second row. It acts as a bridge between the Amazon echo and home automation controllers. It identifies itself to the Echo as a Philips Hue bridge (official Echo partner) and provides the list of controllable devices you set up. When you give commands to the echo to control devices, echo sends them to the home automation bridge thinking it is controlling hue lights. Pretty clever. You can set up the bridge so that a command for "dim the lights to 30%" is sent by the echo to the bridge, which forwards the request to the Vera as an http command. Vera then dims the lights to 30% through zwave. "When pausing a movie" happens thanks to a Vera plugin called XBMCstate. It updates vera with the current kodi state (movie started, paused, stopped, etc.): http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=13697.0 CinemaVision addon for kodi also has capability to send http commands to Vera on certain triggers, like when trailers start, dim the lights, when movie starts, turn them off, etc. Vera can easily accept all these http commands over the lan to trigger events or scenes (macros). Other programming like, turning a light on before sundown and sending an e-mail when garage door is open for more than 15 minutes and such, they can be done on the Vera, with advanced programming through a community plugin called "PLEG". Setting of inputs is all on the harmony. What I love best about the Harmony is that it remembers device states. So for instance, you create an activity called Kodi. You associate that with the following devices: htpc, projector and receiver, and you set the right inputs for each device for that activity. When you tell Harmony to start the Kodi activity, it will turn on all of those associated devices (only if they were off before) and it will switch them to the correct inputs. If you have another activity, say Roku, with the projector, roku and the receiver, but with different inputs selected, when you tell the Harmony to switch to Roku from Kodi, Harmony knows that those devices are already on, so it only switches the inputs. It works really well. You can set all that up through harmony's smart phone app which contacts the hub over wifi. Vera has a Harmony plugin so you can include Harmony activities in your Vera programming if you like. The home automation bridge container can directly send commands to the Harmony as well. I know it sounds complicated but it is pretty simple once you figure out the different components and since I moved into my current place a year ago and set these up, I haven't had to tinker at all. Everything works very reliably and even our guests can use the devices with voice commands easily (no more bunches of remotes lying around where nobody knows which remote does what).

I used to use x10 years ago and I was never happy with the reliability. I was constantly tinkering to get it to work right. I now use a vera lite that I bought for $99 a couple of years ago. I paired that with a bunch of cheap ge zwave light switches (lowe's carries them cheap and you can use the coupons easily found online) I also have a couple of zwave thermostats that are just awesome. Best thing about the vera is that the community is amazing and there are a ton of plug-ins written by the community devs. Plugins for harmony, kodi, advanced programming etc. I also set up an amazon echo with my ha bridge container so I can issue voice commands for all the automated devices. It's glorious. As I'm walking down the steps into the basement I shout "Alexa turn the basement lights on" and the lights come on before I get to the bottom of the steps. Then I say "Alexa, turn the media center on", the receiver and the projector turn on and switch to the right inputs. When I fire up cinemavision (creates a movie theater experience with trivia slides and trailers on kodi) the lights dim to 30% and before the movie starts they turn off. Whenever I pause the movie, the lights brighten to 30% (if they were off previously) and turn off once I resume. If I want to play video games, I say "Alexa, turn the PS4 on" and all the inputs change to the Playstation. I also have other lights around the house that come on 20min before sundown so my dogs aren't scared if we're not home. On Android I tried openremote a while back and created a custom remote app with an awesome design and actual photos from my house, but after I moved to a new place I was feeling lazy to start over again and set up a new remote. I now use imperihome which has a nice interface and does most of what I need. I have my garage door set up for remote control and it let's me know via email if someone accidentally leaves it on. And last but not the least, I have a zwave flood sensor in the basement just in case (luckily never had any alerts so far)

Scheduled backups? What kind of sorcery is this? [emoji14] I can't wait to try it

I can try, but I don't know where to start. You'll have to do most of the troubleshooting.

Yep, it does

You can map that folder in the cp container and then point to it

It should shut down the UPS completely. The way it is supposed to work is that before UNRAID shuts down, the APCUPSD software issues a kill-power command to the UPS which also has a time setting (maybe 60 seconds). This allows for UNRAID to complete its shutdown before power is removed completely by the UPS shutting down to prevent excessive discharge of its batteries. The other thing for anyone to remember is to adjust the APCUPSD setting so that the shutdown process begins with enough battery power left for it to run to completion. It's also normal to set the PC's BIOS to allow an automatic start up when mains power is restored. I don't think the ups shutdown works on the cyber power ones. It certainly doesn't work on mine and others reported the same. All other features work, though.

My implementation currently only works with one domain and multiple potential subdomains all on the same cert. Without a domain or subdomain, nginx webserver doesn't even start (template refers to certs and if they don't exist it errors out) It would make more sense to install the basic nginx container and add letsencrypt to it manually. This container is really for folks who want to easily and seamlessly set up a basic webserver on their unraid box so they can access their container guis and other web services securely. For that basic need, all you have to do is enter your domain and your email address and you're good to go. If you need more than that, you're better off setting letsencrypt up yourself and you can customize it to death [emoji6]

I'd like to echo the same question. Picture shows 3 molex and 2 sata power connections. Does one need to connect all 5, or just the molex or the sata sets? I'm interested in the cages as well. I'm assuming you're selling all three for $100 and not each, correct?

Can you post a screenshot with your settings? Does it let you hit create and actuator create the container? Yes it allows me to create the container. Here are my settings, not listed are advanced. Man, you're not giving me much to go on. Did you enter your email address, the url, the subdomains? Are they in the proper format? Did you click on the log button in the gui? Is it absolutely empty? Are there any local files or folders created in the config folder?

Isn't that Windows only?