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Thanks I completely missed that there is a repository field under Add Container.

Well here is my problem. I had a Channels DVR docker installed and working fine. I recently was trying to get hardware encoding working in Channels DVR. As part of that, I downloaded an alternative Channels DVR docker that was meant for Intel hardware encoding. Well I got the hardware encoding working, but a bunch of other things broke. I decided to revert back to the original docker (or what I thought was the original docker) using the Channels DVR template I already had, and everything started to work again except one feature. I eventually realized I had a second Channels DVR template and after applying that, everything including the broken feature started to work again. Well this is when I decided that maybe it was best to go get the official docker from the Channels DVR developer Fancy Bits. Well when I look in Community Applications, I find a couple non-official Channels DVR dockers (the hardware encoding ones I mentioned earlier), but not the official one from Fancy Bits. Looking at the support site for Channels DVR, I found the following article for how to add Channels DVR for UnRaid, but it has the old instructions of adding the repository under the Dockers tab: https://getchannels.com/dvr-server/#unraid I am trying to figure out how to add this repository to Community Apps so I can download and install the official Channels DVR docker from Fancy Bits. In searching around on how to add additional repositories, it seems like the instructions for a lot of other apps/repositories have these same outdated instructions.

Sorry for the newb question, but I have searched all over the place and I can't find and answer. Where can I add a new repository? It seems like there use to be a place under the Docker tab, but that has been removed in factor of Community Applications. However, I have looked all over Community Applications and I can't find where to add a new repository. Please let me know. Thanks!

Thanks @itimpi. I will go ahead and start the RMA process.

Ok thanks @itimpi. Yeah, doing my research I learned that I should've held off on rebooting before collecting logs. Now I know. Do you think the problems may be related to a bad SATA cable? Is it worth going down the route of replacing that cable, or are the logs clearly showing its a hard drive issue? Luckily the drive is still under warranty so I can get it replaced.

Thanks @itimpi. The drive is a 10TB WD Red model WD101EFAX-68LDBN0.

One of my disks in my 4-disk array recently started to show up as disabled. I found the following docs on how to deal with a disk when it goes into the disabled state: https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Storage_Management#Replacing_failed.2Fdisabled_disk.28s.29 However before replacing the disk, I want to make sure the disk is in fact bad. I recently moved all the disks from one server to another and everything worked fine for about a month before this issue started to show up. I just completed an extended SMART test. It completed with "read failure". I have attached the report along with diagnostics logs from the server. Honestly, I am not sure what to make of either set of logs, so if anyone can review and help me decipher them, I would appreciate it. Please note that I did reboot the server prior to collecting both sets of logs (my first instinct was to reboot to see if the disk would get "reenabled" - I have since learned what disabled really means). Part of me suspects it may be a bad cable. I am currently running a Read-Check but as soon as that is done, I plan to open up the server and replace the cables. Any help, guidance, or suggestions would be appreciated. winona-diagnostics-20230226-0945.zip winona-smart-20230225-1955.zip

I did read the message. I just do not want to spend the money right now especially after already having spent a few hundred dollars on the initial setup (hard drives and external enclosure). Wife is already not happy that I spent the few hundred dollars. I am not going to spend a few hundred more to get new hardware, especially when I have hardware that should be more than capable of doing what I need to do. My Windows proof of concept server worked so I know it works. I just need to figure out if the NIC is the issue in UnRaid and if not, then go from there.

I can't think of another explanation. Being able to use the USB Ethernet dongle would confirm my theory one way or another, but unfortunately that doesn't seem possible. I may just need to move everything over to my other laptop and see what happens.

The USB NIC dongle that I have is a USB 3 Gigabit NIC dongle and it is connected to a USB 3 port. Let's say theoretically it can't reach full Gigabit speeds, it should still be fast enough to handle straight streaming of the 4K content. CPU is not an issue. When not transcoding Plex barely uses any CPU. While streaming other content via Direct Play (not transcoding) the CPU rarely goes over 5%. The CPU is either a 1st or 2nd generation Intel i7. Not the speediest by today's standards but also not a slow CPU. Probably a middle of the pack CPU by today's standards. It was top of the line back when I got the laptop. I really do think the problem is with the RealTek NIC. The NIC is a Gigabit NIC. Some of the comments seem to confirm my suspicions that the RealTek driver is bare bones and probably not well maintained/written. Looking at the dashboard it is recognizing the RealTek NIC as a Gigabit NIC, full duplex, and MTU at 1500. Hard drive speed also is not an issue through the single eSata port. For Plex streaming you do not need super fast hard drive speeds or transfers. In fact I purposely went with WD Red NAS 5400rpm drives to keep heat down in the external hard drive enclosure. Ultimately if I need to I will move everything over to my other laptop that has the Intel NIC. It will take some work and I was hoping for an easier solution via a USB Ethernet dongle.

Guys I appreciate the help but please read over the posts. This is the second time someone recommends PCI NICs when I clearly state several times that I am using a laptop as my server. Again I appreciate the help but lets try to make suggestions that actually apply to my setup so that we cut down on the noise in the thread. Thanks.

I am not doing any transcoding with Plex, or let me rephrase and say that Plex shouldn't be doing any transcoding. I am using Plex strictly for internal use at my home. In this scenario as long as you have the bandwidth to stream the original source, which I do in my network as proven with my tests of Plex running on my Windows PC, Plex will not transcode. Instead Plex will stream the original content, in this case 4K content, untouched using something called Direct Play. As long as Plex does not have to transcode, then the CPU usage is minimal and my oldish laptops work just fine for that. The problem comes in that for whatever reason when I try to stream 4K content from my laptop with the RealTek NIC, the clients do not think there is enough bandwidth and they request the Plex server to transcode to lower quality. I really think that this is a problem with the RealTek NIC since the Intel NIC works just fine. Ultimately I wanted to test with the USB NIC to see if the problem did go away which would ultimately prove that the RealTek NIC was the problem. Regarding running Plex, yes I am running Plex via a Docker container in UnRaid.

Remember this is a laptop so I cannot add in NIC cards or else that is definitely what I would have done. The laptop does not even have one of those cardbus slots so those type of cards are also not an option. I have USB 3, Firewire, and eSata ports. Obviously a USB NIC dongle would be the easiest solution.

Is there any type of support for USB Ethernet dongles in UnRaid? If so how can I get one to work? Is there any particular brand/model that is supported? I have a USB Ethernet dongle that I plugged into my UnRaid server and it doesn't seem to recognize it or see it, even after completely powering down the server and then powering back up. Backstory as to why I need this. I am using UnRaid to run a Plex server. Before going with UnRaid, as a proof of concept I tested Plex out in Windows using an old gaming laptop that I had. The laptop had an Intel 1Gb wired NIC, my whole house is wired with Cat6, and my routers/switches all support 1Gb. One of my main requirements was being able to stream 4K movies on the local network using Direct Play with no transcoding. The two main reasons for not wanting transcoding were that I wanted to maintain originally quality and my old gaming laptop was not up to transcoding 4K content. In this configuration it worked perfectly and I was able to stream 4K movies to both an Amazon Fire Cube and Xbox Ones using Direct Play with no transcoding. Once I tested out Plex and saw what I liked on the Windows PC, I decided to build a new Plex server and go with UnRaid server so that I could have resiliency in case on of my hard drives died. I set up the UnRaid server but on a different old gaming laptop. The gaming laptop had similar specs as the first one I used and was actually a bit newer model PC. I have an external 4 bay hard drive enclosure connected to the laptop via eSata. I got everything working, both from the UnRaid side and the Plex side. I had this set up for a few weeks when I noticed that for my 4K movies it was actually pulling down the 1080p version instead of the 4K version of the movie (I have both 4K and 1080p copies for most of my content). When I tried to play content that just had a 4K version, the Plex server would try to start transcode and would essentially choke because it was just not up to transcoding the 4K stream. I knew my network was capable of streaming the 4K content via direct play based on my tests with the Windows Plex server, so I knew the network or the clients were not the problem. To double check, I went back to my Windows Plex server which I still had up and it was still able to stream 4K content via Direct Play. Both of my old gaming laptops are connected to the same exact switch. From there I determined that the problem has to be somewhere with the networking on the UnRaid server. I took a look at the network card on the UnRaid server and discovered it was a RealTek NIC. I have not had great experience with RealTek NICs and from what I hear they are on the cheap end of NIC cards so I suspect this may be where the problem is. To try and test my theory, I plugged in a USB NIC dongle that I have to see if performance would be any better. However I cannot seem to get UnRaid to see the dongle. If I can get the dongle to work and it resolves the problem, then I will probably just leave that dongle plugged in. My other option is to "rebuild" the UnRaid server on my other gaming laptop where I am currently running Windows that has the better Intel NIC. This won't be as straight forward as just moving the UnRaid USB boot drive and my external hard drive enclosure because I am also utilizing two internal SSD drives hard drives as cache drives. If I can get the USB dongle to work and if it resolves the problem that will be a much easier solution then trying to move everything over to the other laptop. FYI I am trying to keep costs down which is why I am using the old gaming laptops. They are pretty good laptops (high end for their day) and I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars to buy and build a new PC when I already have capable hardware to do the job (minus what appears to be a crappy NIC card).