[Plugin] ControlR

[EDACerton]

Just now, jbrodriguez said:

sorry to have brought you in @EDACerton🙏, i was really referring to the underlying app, tailscale itself, which isn't fully open source (https://tailscale.com/opensource#faqs)

There's a misconception here. The base tailscale/tailscaled binaries that are installed via the plugin are open-source (they come from the repo that I linked, I've even submitted PRs for them to make things work better on Unraid).

 

The Mac/Windows/iOS GUIs aren't open-source, nor is the control server (although there is Headscale as an alternative there, which does work with the plugin). None of those components are installed on Unraid.

[jbrodriguez]

1 minute ago, EDACerton said:

The base tailscale/tailscaled binaries that are installed via the plugin are open-source

agree

 

2 minutes ago, EDACerton said:

The Mac/Windows/iOS GUIs aren't open-source, nor is the control server

this is what i really wanted to point out: there's a closed source element in the loop of tailscale (the control server), i understand this is in line with the original concern from @Rysz

as you mentioned, you can run a headscale server and remove the closed source component

[Rysz]

Sorry to have spawned such a discussion about this, glad that there's such diligent security mechanisms in place so thanks to everyone involved with that and for the hard work of all our contributing developers as well (including of this plugin). Glad to be a part of the Unraid community exactly for those reasons and many more. 🙂 

[dnLL]

On 4/14/2024 at 12:01 PM, Rysz said:

Sorry to have spawned such a discussion about this, glad that there's such diligent security mechanisms in place so thanks to everyone involved with that and for the hard work of all our contributing developers as well (including of this plugin). Glad to be a part of the Unraid community exactly for those reasons and many more. 🙂 

It's honestly appreciated as I came to this thread because of the broken update and I'm glad to learn more about what's going on and knowing there are security mechanisms in place. I also hope there is a built-in API in the future where a plugin isn't required to make a powerful app such as ControlR.

[urbanracer34]

Hello! 

 

My unRAID install is indicating that your plugin is not available.

 

I just thought you should know. 

[jbrodriguez]

3 hours ago, urbanracer34 said:

Hello! 

 

My unRAID install is indicating that your plugin is not available.

 

I just thought you should know. 

thanks for the heads up

 

you should be ok uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin

let me know if that doesn't work for you

[urbanracer34]

It worked! Thanks! 

[LOOPMDS]

On 5/5/2024 at 9:39 PM, jbrodriguez said:

thanks for the heads up

 

you should be ok uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin

let me know if that doesn't work for you

this did work on my primary Unraid server.
But on my backup Unraid server it wont start, and i get no real error in log

See log.  (first Remove , then reinstall.)  i even tried to delete the controlr.conf after remove)

May 16 10:19:02 UNRAID2 root: plugin: controlr.plg removed
May 16 10:23:02 UNRAID2 root: plugin: creating: /boot/config/plugins/controlr/controlr-v2024.05.11a.tgz - downloading from URL https://github.com/jbrodriguez/controlr/releases/download/v2024.05.11a/controlr-v2024.05.11a.tgz
May 16 10:23:09 UNRAID2 root: plugin: checking: /boot/config/plugins/controlr/controlr-v2024.05.11a.tgz - MD5
May 16 10:23:10 UNRAID2 root: plugin: creating: /boot/config/plugins/controlr/controlr.cfg - from INLINE content
May 16 10:23:10 UNRAID2 root: plugin: creating: /boot/config/plugins/controlr/controlr.env - from INLINE content
May 16 10:23:10 UNRAID2 root: plugin: running: anonymous
May 16 10:23:10 UNRAID2 root: plugin: creating: /tmp/controlr-chkconf - from INLINE content
May 16 10:23:10 UNRAID2 root: plugin: running: /bin/bash /tmp/controlr-chkconf
May 16 10:23:10 UNRAID2 root: plugin: controlr.plg installed
May 16 10:23:22 UNRAID2 autofan: Highest disk temp is 42C, adjusting fan speed from: 219 (85% @ 0rpm) to: 189 (74% @ 0rpm)
May 16 10:23:24 UNRAID2 ool www[12097]: /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/controlr/scripts/start
May 16 10:23:24 UNRAID2 sudo:     root : PWD=/usr/local/emhttp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/bash -c 'env PORT=2378 SHOW_UPS=true /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/controlr/controlr --port 2378'
May 16 10:23:24 UNRAID2 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
May 16 10:23:24 UNRAID2 sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

Then i discoveren that the /boot/config/plugins/controlr/controlr.env  file was much larger (24B) on the backup unraid server. so i deleted the file on backup unraid server and started the controlr plugin from settings menu.  and it worked.

As far as i can see on my primary unraid server the file has no real content and is only 1B of size.

Hope this can help others.

Edited May 16 by LOOPMDS
added filesize

[jbrodriguez]

hi, so this is odd, i'll try to replicate on my server, it was working fine when i installed it, i'll double check

[kardinal]

When using the app I get the following error in the unraid logs:

 

[error] 10459#10459: *278035 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.110.25, server: , request: "POST /plugins/unassigned.devices/UnassignedDevices.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "192.168.8.2:8888"

 

ControlR, Unassigned Devices and Unassigned Devices Plus plugins are installed.

[jbrodriguez]

4 hours ago, kardinal said:

ControlR, Unassigned Devices and Unassigned Devices Plus plugins are installed.

mmm ok, maybe unassigned devices changed location ?

 

i'll try to check later this week