Hi, developer of Homarr here. Thanks for showing off our software. I appreciate the feedback. Let us know if you have any trouble or need assistance. Cheers 🥂
Nice! You did an excellent job! I’ve since added some widgets and I love it even more. It genuinely solves a problem I never knew I had until I found this, and it does so beautifully. Just make that image search chill for a second would ya🤣. Thanks again for your awesome contribution to the community!
Love your software for auomating torrent downlaods and orginization. What would you suggest as an alternitive as TrueNAS scale has made it harder to configure my qbittorrent app with my VPN?
it looks like Homarr is tuck in a deploying state on my true nas scale latest edition. Its the only app that I have seen this do it so far.. any thoughts?
I will probably save this to my watch later playlist because I spent 12 hours banging my head against a wall trying to get plex and other apps to work but nothing had the right permissions, every video was using an outdated UI, nothing looked the same and so i just yolo'd it to windows. Even just the 1st 8 minutes has been more helpful than any other Truenas tutorial I have seen. 10/10
I am a newbie to trueNAS-scale and I've been struggling for 5 days now trying to make jellyfin install and set the directories to work properly. I finally succeeded to do so after watching your video sir. This is the most comprehensive tutorial for me, everyone else is : click here, type this, click that, done! before you can even blink. People making these kind of videos have to understand that we are here to learn and not evaluate their skills, I find your explanatory way of showing things way more educational. And yes, I did my research, but it seems in the open source/linux/NAS community things change from version to version so the info we reach on forums etc. are not always (or are they ever?) applicable. I had to search with very specific terms to find my way to your video and a couple of others to finally solve my issue. Thank you so much for the effort and your way of sharing information.
You mention that Plex needs Auth when there is no internet. Under Settings>Network, there is a setting to add IP Addresses of trusted clients without auth. Just make sure to reserve the IP's of those devices so they dont change. Hope that helps. Pretty good video, thanks
I’ll give it a try! There was some workaround I did a few years back that worked until I got bougie and setup plex “home” with different users and login codes.
so did I... Got burnt by Storaxa aswell. Built my own server now. Absoultley brilliant video. The time it must have taken to make it. It is really appreciated. In 2 hours went from blank TrueNAs to a system that supasses my old system
This video was so helpful in setting up an immich server, I just used the default stuff for the path and it's working really well especially with tailscale I can access my photos from anywhere, thank you so much❤
Thanks for the demo and info. I am in the same boat, I have a HP-DL360-G8, and I am starting to move and migrate my apps, to a slower and less power consuming device. Have a great day
The videos were very helpful to me, I like how it is illustrated and although I am not good at English, I understand half of it, I have replicated everything you have shown in the video and everything worked for me the first time. Thank you very much for sharing your experience and time, starting today you have a new subscriber. P.S. I'm new to the truenas world, I come from the synology world, sorry for my English!!!!!
Hi, I followed your walkthrough and was able to setup TrueNAS Scale, thank you so much! I would love to see an updated video for the new TrueNAS Electric Eel :)
I rarely comment, but just wanted to say thank you for such a great walkthrough! I have the *arr stack + jellyfin running off a rpi4 and recently got the itch to upgrade. Ordering my parts and feel more confident after watching your video, thank you!
mate, thats the best video i saw about truenas homeserver setup. it has almost everything i want to do with my truenas. now i just need someone to explain me all the homeassistant stuff :D
I had to redo all my aplications again on my Truenas Scale 23.10.s VM for a clean start with all apps, and this video was fantastic aid to help complete that so thank you for this video. Now to tweak the ARR apps further , if only I could find that video or my notes....
Good video. Your the first person I've watched that explained the NewsReaders, Radarr, Sonarr & Prowlarr connections so I could understand them. Still somewhat confusing, but doable!
Good stuff, bitrate targets are really aggressive compression, which maybe be fine for you, but other people following the guide may want higher numbers. It probably is noticeably worse than 4k bluray. 3GB/h for 1080p and 6-8GB/h for 4k is probably the minimum for visually lossless if you use a tool like ffmetrics to compare a remux source to a recompressed version. Targeting a PSNR of 0.45 and a VMAF of 93. 4k bluray is already H.265 to start with, so it is harder to squeeze more compression out of. Also if your client supports AV1 direct stream (apple tv, nvidia shield, firestick 4k) it can probably get 25-50% more compression for the same quality as H.265.
I love this, thank you. I did bump mine up a tad a little while back, mainly because if random older content wasn’t available in 265 it wasn’t grabbing anything…and leaving larger gaps in some series than I wanted.
@@Randyisanerd the other option is to use tdarr to convert to h.265 yourself. I have been trying to find a more efficient setup for my server to need as few drives as possible, while having as much quality as possible, and have been testing a lot of encoding. I probably should make a video on it.
I used to transcode old school from Blu-ray to handbrake to makemkv and all I remember is it taking FOREVER even with a decent graphics card at the time (I want to say 1060)…but you’re not wrong, maybe I’ll dive into this rabbit hole, thanks jerk!
Yeah, I heard about this on the WAN Show and was a bit disappointed because I had not swapped from True Nas Core until 2 days ago. Still loving True Nas Scale right now!
Thank you so much for this video. All the current videos on UA-cam are so outdated that is difficult to follow. Yours are up to date, make sense and easy for me to follow.
Dude this is great all in one video, I've been sitting on my server up untill today out of date for about 2 years so this was sooooo amazing jumping back in to refreash my knowlege and apply the new methods based on changes to the newest version of everything
So glad I could help. I’m really excited to see where electric eel and docker take this platform. My guess is by Christmas everything will look different, but the logic behind most should stay the same.
Thanks for explaning this in such a way that a total noob can understand just started my homelab and felt way over my head with 3+ servers with proxmox, unraid, jellyfish, etc...
I am new to TrueNAS but thank you for all your time and efforts in educating us all with your experience, time and wisdom. I am definitely going to subscribe and would recommend to you all aswell.
I don't normally comment on YT but wanted to say a big thank you to you for saying something in the plex section that made me realize where to adjust my pathing that allowed me to update my plex server that I had been fighting with for months now. Now to watch the rest of the video.
FOR ANYONE CONFUSED BY TAILSCALE LIKE I WAS: Mr Randy is using the TrueNAS catalog version of the tailscale app install. The config screen for the Truecharts app looks WAAAY more complicated, and it won't have the options he shows at the same locations. Make sure you're using the original catalog's install if you just get lost on the install screen
really great video. very well explained, especially the the sabnzbd part and the news part (i went with eweka), and also covering the the entire Arr suite.
I loved the video it has been a great walk thru on what is needed to get up and going with sab, sonarr, radarr and such. I don't use truenas. I have a asustor 8 bay using their built in software and most of my apps are running on a windows nuc but the app setup was extremely helpful since the apps (so far) are the same regardless of what os you run them on
Bro ProMox is a Breeze! 😂 the only finicky thing is setting up high availability ( as if you mess up, you have to rebuild the entire proxmox os ) however it's more for companies or organizations for virtualizing your environments such as firewall and all your services, scale inside proxmox
I think it’s just muscle memory since I’ve been with truenas…since it was freenas 😂. I’m not opposed to giving it a shot again…as long as someone else makes this exact video for proxmox so I can follow it 😂😂😂
Hey Randy, I realized you never actually showed the process of creating an SMB user. When creating the windows and unix shares, they can't be accessed via the windows network tab until a smb user is created and that user's credentials are used to login. Would have appreciated this crucial step being covered and what the recommended setup for one is.
Awesome video man, just what I was looking for, especially SABnzbd - how would you set up the paths (i.e. 'watched / download / completed etc)? Your Yottamaster storage, is not a NAS, just a standard USB-C cable? How does Truenas find/know about this? Apologies for the noob q's!
I set up my sab folders how plex likes to see them. Movies, music, tv. I then have one active download folder for temporary storage as sab is downloading, unpacking, reassembling the news articles into a real file again. Once it passes all those checks, your arrs will move the file to their final location (just follow the data management tab instructions in the video). As for the yottamaster,the usb-c interface is great. Just plug it in and truenas sees each drive, and it’s fully s.m.a.r.t. Capable. Universal Serial Bus wasn’t always what it is today. It’s a perfectly viable option now for mass storage communication.
Hahahaha, glad I could help! If there is one thing that gets me with truenas it’s ALWAYS access control lists. As a home user, they really should make it easier to just be “open”…but it’s way easier now than it was 10 years ago so I’ll take it!
Hi there, interesting video. The most exciting thing for me was immich as I recently tried to install and use it on a proxmox environment (in a docker compose) but I struggled with editing the paths to store my photos on a physical hard drive. It was very complicated for me because I have no clue how docker works and don't understand it. The next thing was updating immich server on docker so I'm very interested to see this method of installing it in true nas. Will try it next. Is updating easy? Updating it every few days (is there an option to update automatically if there is a newer version?) seems to be very stressful isn't it? Anyways a very good alternative to Google photos with the only 15 GB free storage, I really have to switch because my storage is nearly full. 😂
This is a great video. I'm just getting into this stuff and the learning curve is steep! Just a quick question, how do you download like this without drawing the eye of your ISP? Wouldn't you have to have your system on a VPN or something so that your downloads arent noticed by the ISP? Thanks again!
With a https secure connection direct downloads from Usenet servers go unnoticed by your isp. Further, they only really “care” about torrenting when informed by a 3rd party snitch whose literal job it is to rat on people who aren’t behind a vpn if that makes any sense. Trust me, your isp doesn’t want to be bothered with that stuff either (unless maybe you have Comcast of time warner and it’s THEIR content 😂)
I’m learning sometimes you’ve got to give it a day or two as they update and replace distributions. Both are well supported, high functioning, and close enough though.
Followed your guide here and it worked out great... I finally migrated off my old Ubuntu based media box that's been spinning 8x 1TB drives since 2006... The only thing I'm not completely happy with and having to tinker is quality settings... I'm really struggling to find / update some of my media with Sonar because of the limitations I set with your settings... but, just like others and you... I won't want a 600GB series... so I'm trying to find the right settings to get some older stuff that's getting tagged as not valid.
I did end up cranking mine up a tad because I was missing a bunch, especially if .265 wasn’t available. So set your “preferred” to a realistic .265 size, but then blow up the “maximum” size so it’ll still capture something if it’s the only option available. I never got into tdarr to re encode those files, but apparently that’s an option too. Just seems like a steep learning curve.
Great point, and we do. Our isp runs their lines on power poles here and we’re good for a multi day outage once a year when someone hits a pole, or a tree comes down. I’d just like to rest assured I will be able to watch red dawn as the world is crumbling around me, you know?
A great Video Randy, I have the ARRs setup on Ubuntu and Docker using Portainer to manage them. My storage server is on TrueNas Core. I am looking to move all the apps onto Trena's Scale, Good to see you have already done it. Have you setup plex on Trena's Scale? and if so did you use the iGPU or an external GPU?
Yessir. Plex is great, maintained, and frequently updated! Using the ipgu on this minisforum i5-13500 and it’s doing great. Even transcoding from 265 to 264 when needed.
I did an “upgrade” on an old server from freenas 11, to truenas core, to scale. I was puckered the entire time…but it went off without a hitch! Best of luck!!!
@@Randyisanerd Nice, you have walked the walk, I am about to start that now but I I'll still keep my files on a separate server, Truenas Core. The apps will live on what I am calling an application server (Truenas Scale) and it will be all NVME, no spinning hard drives.
Randy I bought a used Yottamaster Y-focus FS5C3, i think yours is same model with 2 usb-c, one hub and one main, i connected my hard drivers and Truenas is having trouble detecting my 4 hard drives. It detects 2, then a new 3rd one gets error "ZFS Health". but i switch them around and it switches the error to another drive. They are all different sizes. I read that Truenas doesn't recommend using USB drives. I'm also using a usb-c to usb-a cables and tried different ones.
this is so confusing. how did you create the dataset ? I created a dataset, and tried to enable SMB share for windows but I get an error when created the share.
I'm struggling with the radarr root folder. The Media folder I created does show up in windows explorer with all the stuff that should be there but radarr doesn't find it so I cannot add it.
Hi there, just want wanna thank you for this video; hands down only video on youtube about TrueNAS where I could understand what is going on why; my home media server is now up and running within a day; thanks a lor
Sorry if this is a dumb question but i've been stuck for a week. I have everything running with SMB but i have no idea what to do for qbittorrent so that it is bound to my proton vpn, and i dont want the entire nas going through the vpn (i think, but i dont know, if i pay for proton is there a benefit to using it for the entire nas vs just qbittorrent?)? Idk if this is something you can make a video about or maybe link me to some guides that may help?
I am saving app configs in the ix systems folder, and it was not smart 😂. It’s going to make electric eel setup a bit of a challenge for certain services for sure. My only super critical config is immich, I’m just putting off research until a verified stable release. Which hopefully allows me to procrastinate a bit longer 😂
probably a dumb question, but how reliable is an external storage system connected via USB for 24x7 uptime? is there any meaningful advantage in going with more direct chipset/pci-e connections?
Not dumb at all. If you ask on reddit, there are a TON of purists that say it’s a terrible idea. With the advancements in connection speed and robustness of usb c…I’m not worried about a thing. I mean. I’m also not running ECC memory on this server. But, it’s all replaceable media (save for the photos which ill “snapshot”back up additionally to to fire safe occasionally)
Try putting 6 normal consumer grade hard drives connected with your motherboard sata port and raidx them all up and your could still have problems , WHY because if one drive spends a little long reading from the array it will confuse the system stop the full array , that why you have drive for raid systems .
I've been running a 4 bay from Orico over USB to a beelink mini pc running unraid for about 17 months now, not a single issue related to the enclosure or USB at all. As Randy said, it's the Reddit purists insisting there are issues with USB which have essentially all been squashed now, especially if you buy from someone half decent using branded USB controllers
Interesting takes here I agree Reddit/Truenas Forums are full of "No USB" and "You need ECC" I personally went for a small mATX case for now with ECC Ram but I am looking to extend this one with a USB Enclosure later on as well. Lets see how the opinion about this is in 1 year. Still I would at last mention this in a pinned comment or at the beginning of the video. Making educational videos on UA-cam and telling people to connect your HDDs via USB to your TrueNas is definitely not risk free.
Great tutorial, i'm only having one issue, Sonarr keeps having issues with this error: Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr. I've confirmed the path exists and files are still being moved after download, but that error still appears
@@Randyisanerd i figured it out, sorry it was my fault, or actually, i'm not sure lol it turns out sonarr was using a category that didn't exist for the download client, i updated to "tv-sonarr" category and all is working properly now, I think it was just "sonarr" at first, i'm thinking maybe a symptom of upgrade to latest version. Thanks for the video!!
amazing video! did you have to set up access controls in tailscale? i set it up like you did but i can not connect from my phone at all and i think it may be because of access control settings on the admin console of tailscale.
@@Randyisanerd under "Advertise Routes" i have my local IP and subnet listed. then i have "Advertise Exit Node" and "Userspace" checked like you did in your video. if that's what you're talking about.
Immich is great, just one thing is suspicios: one cannot export all the photos/videos in a batch. And I didn't find the way to access the media on the dataset as well.
I never looked into bulk export, but I’m sure the devs would love the feedback!Media is buried a few folders deep by user, so you can get it if something were to ever happen, but since it’s all distributed over a pile of folders it’s wouldn’t be easy or fast. I can look tomorrow and post the path to it if you need.
Welp, it’s been 9 months of spinning these disks 24/7 and I haven’t had an issue 🤷♂️. Well that’s a lie. I pulled the wrong disk one time experimenting and it really didn’t like that, but a sudo pool clear command fixed that up right quick.
Yes sir. They list as sda through sde, click on each will show the serial numbers. I have a second set of disks I’m going to spin up in a bit to run a raidz2 for photos exclusively. I’ll let you know how those go as this box allows you to daisy chain two together on the same usb-c bus (10gb capable, running at 5gb each box) so it shouldn’t slow down either!
I once had multiple servers running but decided to consolidate everything into VMs, now running unraid on a 1700x then upgraded to 5800x and 64GB ram.... all is good I didnt go with intel because all their stupid P & E cores thing, I want to have full control and power of my CPU
Amazing video, I just see that now, but currently I own the same setup that I buy 6 months ago. Good idea for the 4k inside your home network only, I think I'm gonna change my setup with only 1 radarr to 2. For the VPN, I use gluetun for only the containers that I want to go through this VPN.
45:30 is what i came here for, that gives me my shared folder to drop my videos into. WHY the repository wiki whatever its called, says "just add your library and there you go, I cannot fathom
Electric eel moved to docker containers, and the true harts portion of this is officially dead…so I’ll have to make another video once there is an official release.
Excellent point I didn’t really cover! We stream outside the home a fair amount and love it. To do this you’ll have to forward port 32400 on your router (Plex default port unless you change it in setup), and that’s different for everyone depending on your router. First step is log in to your router (typically 192.168.1.1 admin password) and click around until you find advanced, port forwarding. Then you’ll define the port, and point it to your ip for your server with Plex on it. Once that’s setup there is a connection test section in Plex web that will let you know if it’s setup right 👍
So your plex is up and running normal in the house? When you go to the web app, settings on the top right, remote access on the left. What does it say? You should be able to test here and it should turn green and say “fully accessible outside your network” once that port is forwarded on your router.
Yeah truecharts pulled the plug on new installs a bit early after truenas announced a move to docker containers for their next official release. Kind of a bummer for people that are now stuck in the interim. This issue should go away in a few months time once everything is sorted with docker. I’ll do an updated walkthrough.
Yeah this model was short lived for some reason 🤷♂️ I want to say npb5, but then they came out with the other small form factor with dual 10g nics shortly after so I think they stopped pushing this one. I believe the new one even has the new iris xe igpu which is like twice as good.
Timestamp 7:40 For TruenasCore, the apps user does not appear in the User or group drop down, does Core have this user/group or is there a different user which should be used? Or does it need to be migrated to Scale?
I use Tailscale to connect with immich when I’m outside my network, I really don’t want to expose family photos to the internet no matter how safe it seems. I’m sure it’s the same steps and most likely “safe” enough, I just haven’t personally done it. Hope that helps.
Could you make a tutorial now how to migrate from TrueCharts to TrueNAS for radarr, sonarr, lidarr etc? Now that TrueCharts is no longer supported for TrueNAS and these apps don't exist as TrueCharts?
@@Randyisanerd that would be awesome thanks! Myself, i I basically learned how to instal all my apps for true charts using host path… but now I can’t get the official apps to instal cause there seems to be more requirements for permissions and can’t seem to get radarr etc to find my media
I’m using the yottamaster 5bay usb-c. AliExpress shipping is crazy fast from the official yottamaster store (6 days and I’m on the east coast) they market it as the y-focus model. I’ll watch the video at 29:00 and reply again for the other bit
Ah ok. So for the “host”, that’s the IP of the server we’re setting up. That will be displayed on your truenas dashboard. Since all of these services run inside the truenas os, the IP will be the same for ALL of these services, just with a different port to communicate with their webGUIs. Does that make sense?
Most secure is to really hunker down and learn Linux permissions and setup proper users and groups and ACLs...but I suck at that no matter how hard I try. I'd rather limit my network access and have my server setup wide open like this so anything on my network can openly communicate with it. SMB is just a windows thing, so if you don't need that access you can skip that part.
so @ 32:10 you said tell it you want to do renaming. will that also change the torrent file or will it make a hardlink? I am trying to have mine set up to keep seeding once things are downloaded.
That, is a fantastic question. I honestly haven’t messed with deluge in a long time. I will experiment and find out though. My guess is that it’s going to ruin your seed as soon as it renames unless there is a copy function that I’m not aware of.
At this point we’re in a holding pattern until a docker path becomes available from ixsystems. Once that’s available we’ll be able to install ANY docker container and this OS is really going to take off (if it’s handled right)
great Video. i do have one problem. when connecting with Immich on my phone, it will connect to the server but fails on my password. and it is the right password.
So, here is the thing. Some news hosts will log your ip with requests, date, time. Others “claim” no logging. I’m not an expert there, but there are some great communities on reddit that go into great detail on stuff like this. R/usenet
i got my radarr, sonarr, prowlarr, jellyseer working now because of your in depth tutorial, many thanks. however i havent decided if i will be using usenet or just a vpn with socks5.
I did something wrong, Immich has been spinning up for 6 hrs ! was able to point all paths to mnt/hoastpath/subfloders in v23.10.2 no error logs. no shell output.. so I'm not sure where it's unhappy.! convenient. =(
I have that 5 bay yottamaster like yours and tried it with proxmox , but proxmox uses the serial no / make for the mounting . but it look like the yottamaster reports all the drives to have the same serial no / make which crashes my server . Windows uses the uuid for mounting and most linux , but proxmox doesn't like that 5 bay.
I love the fit and finish of the yottamaster! I was able to get it to work in proxmox but you had to get the serial number for each drive and “pass through” in the command line, but man what a time consuming nightmare. Truenas really is the way to go for this use case. I hope this video help you at least a little! Only bit I want to figure out yet is installing home assistant as a VM, since the container version has limitations with basic things like the community store.
@@Randyisanerd I've just tried it under proxmox , the only problem with my mini pc is I've maxed it out , 64gb ram , 2 x 2tb nvme drives and 2 x 4tb SSDs, so would waste a full 2tb drive just for the boot. Looking at the drive is only used for boot so wondering if I could use a small usb hard-drive for that ?. When you say "had to get the serial number for each drive and “pass through” in the command line" do you mean the uuid because on mine it passes the same serial on of the first drive on all drives I think ?.
I have a feeling as I fill this thing out I’ll be headed for 64gb of ram here shortly too. I guess we could remove our WiFi/Bluetooth chips since we’re hardwired and put a small boot ssd in there right? Someone’s gotta make a short little small capacity 2230 ssd right?
@peteradshead2383 I just found a WD 256gb 2230 for $17.50…now you have me thinking. I could use the stock 1tb for a write cache or, or a vdev just for downloads until they finish and move to spinning disk storage or something…
There were several “breaking changes” in the past 12 months. There are guides on how to backup and restore, but luckily I was late to the party and none of my updates have broken anything for me.
Did you get any warning about usb usb drives for your zpool? I use a different 4 bay usb 3.2 gen 2 enclosure, but I always get these warnings about using usb drives. I also was only able to get 50 megabytes per second write transfers using the usb enclosure
I do get a usb caution, but the transfer speeds on this usb-c enclosure are close to 160mb/s for me in the real world! (Large transfers, small is hitting 250mb/s)
I haven’t had any real breaking changes on updates other than immich as it’s been developed, but they are super good at documentation so it been easy to work around. I literally had a version of freenas 9.something running on my basement for 7 years with zero updates until radarr no longer supported my old ass version of mono, and even then it still half worked. Yeah it’ll show you that there are newer versions of apps available, but everything will still work if you don’t update, for a very long time.
Followed this but alas, I'm running into the same issue I'm running into everywhere with the arr stack. I can't see my storage in the root folder. Followed everything, have permissions wide open and still doesn't show up. I just see the container files. Any advice?
Can’t see it…from windows? Or can’t see it from the “storage configuration” while setting up the app? Make sure you have your media dataset defined, and then shared via SMB and UNIX. When you are in the datasets pane, select your media dataset, on the right side it’ll say roles, apps…make sure it says “this dataset is used by:” and all of your arrs are in there. If they are not, it’s a setting while configuring each arr app. Let me know!
@@Randyisanerd It was a stupid error on my part that I figured out! My interface is a bit different than what was on screen. When you're setting up now it asks where to put the app files and then you have to select to add additional storage to mount those files/give access. I've been trying for a week with linux servers and docker to connect storage with no avail, so when it happened here I was upset -- but a simple settings change and voila! All working. Thanks for this video -- it finally allowed me to get my homeserver up and running. Truenas for the win.
I have VPN for home Internet, but when you connect to secure usenet it’s not necessary (and would seriously slow speeds down). SAB is a usenet download manager, yes very much like qbit or utorrent is for torrents.
@@Randyisanerd dang ya i never used unset im so used to using nordvpn with torrenting if you could maybe in the future show how to do this with glueton would be dope man for real because i cant find any 1 setting this up for the life of me and if you go to truecharts for help holy shit there toxic as fuck
i don't get what I'm doing wrong i follow your steps and everything never seems as easy as you make it to be, Prowlarr refuses to connect to anything, its all connection refused.
Yes, it’s the 5 bay usb-c. On their website they call it the “Y-Focus” on their site for some reason. It’s way cheaper on AliExpress, and ships fast. But I won’t stop you from ordering on my Amazon affiliate link either!
So. Usenet needs three things. A provider, a search engine (indexer), and a download tool (sab shown here). I did not show any peer to peer (torrent) setups here as I believe it’s frowned upon. Specific languages are tough, but bazarr for subtitles is great, and trash guides may be able to help with language specific filter setup for you. Good luck!
Please please please do a follow up on how to protect the *rr traffic with a vpn (mullvad etc..) and lock it down so it only uses that vpn connection while not disturbing the tailscale.
Hi Randy! Really liked your video. Do you happen to have a discord? I'd love to get someone on one help with setting up my truenas scale install. I've been running into some issues trying to set up my aar stack and usenet. Think you can help?
You should try AV1. The compression and quality are better. Compress it with Handbrake, I found the sweet spot at 28 compression. Oh good video, I'm new to TrueNAS Scale, way different the UNRAID. All i want is plex and storage movies. Im halfway of te video, hopefully you have a nvme cache drive for plex metadata setup.
I’ll look into the av1 thing for sure. I used to punish my 1060 with handbrake encodes for days at a time when I originally ripped my Blu-ray collection. I’d inmate things have gotten better there. As for the NVME, truenas doesn’t really benefit from them. I watched a pretty extensive test on someone’s channel that was really well done, I just can’t remember the name of it. If you can add more ram though…you can get those traditional nvme benefits there.
@RandysRandomHobbies I see. I run intel i9 14900, AORUS Master X z790, Corsaid DDR5 5600mhz 92gb of RAM 2 sticks, so if I need more RAM I can add more to max it at 128gb It's a simple setup. As you mentioned in your video, keeping the cost down to a minimum. What do you suggest to set up the NVME? It's a 2tb?
You could probably setup a write cache drive with it if you have a crazy fast internet connection or are doing large transfers to it, but from the tests I’ve seen, the gains aren’t earth shattering. I’d almost pull the nvme and use it in something else 😂
Hi, developer of Homarr here. Thanks for showing off our software. I appreciate the feedback. Let us know if you have any trouble or need assistance.
Cheers 🥂
Nice! You did an excellent job! I’ve since added some widgets and I love it even more. It genuinely solves a problem I never knew I had until I found this, and it does so beautifully. Just make that image search chill for a second would ya🤣. Thanks again for your awesome contribution to the community!
Thank you for your time and effort into such a project!! Once I’m not broke I’m donating to all!!
Love your software for auomating torrent downlaods and orginization. What would you suggest as an alternitive as TrueNAS scale has made it harder to configure my qbittorrent app with my VPN?
wow, cool
it looks like Homarr is tuck in a deploying state on my true nas scale latest edition. Its the only app that I have seen this do it so far.. any thoughts?
I will probably save this to my watch later playlist because I spent 12 hours banging my head against a wall trying to get plex and other apps to work but nothing had the right permissions, every video was using an outdated UI, nothing looked the same and so i just yolo'd it to windows. Even just the 1st 8 minutes has been more helpful than any other Truenas tutorial I have seen. 10/10
I wish I could upvote you 10 times. This has been one of the most helpful videos I've ever seen. Thank you thank you!
So glad I could help!
THE MOST SLOW PACED AND CALM ONE , LOVED IT MAN , BEAUTIFUL
I started building a trueNAS server a few days ago. This video explained everything to me perfectly. Thank you so much!
So glad I could help!
I am a newbie to trueNAS-scale and I've been struggling for 5 days now trying to make jellyfin install and set the directories to work properly. I finally succeeded to do so after watching your video sir. This is the most comprehensive tutorial for me, everyone else is : click here, type this, click that, done! before you can even blink. People making these kind of videos have to understand that we are here to learn and not evaluate their skills, I find your explanatory way of showing things way more educational. And yes, I did my research, but it seems in the open source/linux/NAS community things change from version to version so the info we reach on forums etc. are not always (or are they ever?) applicable. I had to search with very specific terms to find my way to your video and a couple of others to finally solve my issue.
Thank you so much for the effort and your way of sharing information.
You mention that Plex needs Auth when there is no internet. Under Settings>Network, there is a setting to add IP Addresses of trusted clients without auth. Just make sure to reserve the IP's of those devices so they dont change. Hope that helps. Pretty good video, thanks
I’ll give it a try! There was some workaround I did a few years back that worked until I got bougie and setup plex “home” with different users and login codes.
Saw that and came down to the comments specifically to write this out. This is the solution I use for offline play and it works well.
@@inflatablebananapig1 Same. This is what I do also.
so did I... Got burnt by Storaxa aswell. Built my own server now. Absoultley brilliant video. The time it must have taken to make it. It is really appreciated. In 2 hours went from blank TrueNAs to a system that supasses my old system
I am saddened that so many of us got burnt, but so glad I could help contribute to your new awesome server in some way!
Very nice! Everything someone needs to setup a useful and functioning home server!
Shoutout from Central PA (Lancaster) as well!
This video was so helpful in setting up an immich server, I just used the default stuff for the path and it's working really well especially with tailscale I can access my photos from anywhere, thank you so much❤
Thanks for the demo and info. I am in the same boat, I have a HP-DL360-G8, and I am starting to move and migrate my apps, to a slower and less power consuming device. Have a great day
The videos were very helpful to me, I like how it is illustrated and although I am not good at English, I understand half of it, I have replicated everything you have shown in the video and everything worked for me the first time. Thank you very much for sharing your experience and time, starting today you have a new subscriber. P.S. I'm new to the truenas world, I come from the synology world, sorry for my English!!!!!
Thank you for the compliment! Glad I could help. Your English is great!
Hi, I followed your walkthrough and was able to setup TrueNAS Scale, thank you so much!
I would love to see an updated video for the new TrueNAS Electric Eel :)
I rarely comment, but just wanted to say thank you for such a great walkthrough! I have the *arr stack + jellyfin running off a rpi4 and recently got the itch to upgrade. Ordering my parts and feel more confident after watching your video, thank you!
So glad I could help!
mate, thats the best video i saw about truenas homeserver setup.
it has almost everything i want to do with my truenas.
now i just need someone to explain me all the homeassistant stuff :D
I had to redo all my aplications again on my Truenas Scale 23.10.s VM for a clean start with all apps, and this video was fantastic aid to help complete that so thank you for this video.
Now to tweak the ARR apps further , if only I could find that video or my notes....
Good video. Your the first person I've watched that explained the NewsReaders, Radarr, Sonarr & Prowlarr connections so I could understand them. Still somewhat confusing, but doable!
Glad it was helpful!
So clueless when it comes to this. I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know until I tried administering my first server… thank you so much for this.
Glad I could help! Definitely a learning curve, but all of these devs did a great job doing what they do!
Man, you are doing god's work here. Did you know your video is the only in-depth trunas video? Thank you!
Hahahahaha I love the name change btw 😂
7:21 - setting apps as owner and group, 8:06 setting ACL and making root the dataset owner... ;) Jokes aside, very good work, thanks!
Good stuff, bitrate targets are really aggressive compression, which maybe be fine for you, but other people following the guide may want higher numbers. It probably is noticeably worse than 4k bluray. 3GB/h for 1080p and 6-8GB/h for 4k is probably the minimum for visually lossless if you use a tool like ffmetrics to compare a remux source to a recompressed version. Targeting a PSNR of 0.45 and a VMAF of 93. 4k bluray is already H.265 to start with, so it is harder to squeeze more compression out of. Also if your client supports AV1 direct stream (apple tv, nvidia shield, firestick 4k) it can probably get 25-50% more compression for the same quality as H.265.
I love this, thank you. I did bump mine up a tad a little while back, mainly because if random older content wasn’t available in 265 it wasn’t grabbing anything…and leaving larger gaps in some series than I wanted.
@@Randyisanerd the other option is to use tdarr to convert to h.265 yourself. I have been trying to find a more efficient setup for my server to need as few drives as possible, while having as much quality as possible, and have been testing a lot of encoding. I probably should make a video on it.
I used to transcode old school from Blu-ray to handbrake to makemkv and all I remember is it taking FOREVER even with a decent graphics card at the time (I want to say 1060)…but you’re not wrong, maybe I’ll dive into this rabbit hole, thanks jerk!
@@Randyisanerd lol, yeah gpu is a lot faster now but cpu quality is still better, so some things I do in 15 minutes and some in 6 hours
For anyone coming here after July, TrueCharts is dead now.
Yeah, I heard about this on the WAN Show and was a bit disappointed because I had not swapped from True Nas Core until 2 days ago. Still loving True Nas Scale right now!
So… any alternatives? I heard truecharts plex is the only Plex which allows to stream video on the local network without having to transcode…
I was coming to the comments to mention this.
That is sad.. is there another way to install apps ?
I’m trying to find new ways to.. is installing docker the only option?
Thank you so much for this video. All the current videos on UA-cam are so outdated that is difficult to follow. Yours are up to date, make sense and easy for me to follow.
I mean, I’m breaking the first rule of fight club…but it’s all for “education” right. Glad I could help!
43:55 Yes you can! You can skip that authentication for the network, it may not load images etc but it works
Dude this is great all in one video, I've been sitting on my server up untill today out of date for about 2 years so this was sooooo amazing jumping back in to refreash my knowlege and apply the new methods based on changes to the newest version of everything
So glad I could help. I’m really excited to see where electric eel and docker take this platform. My guess is by Christmas everything will look different, but the logic behind most should stay the same.
This may be the best video ever regarding this kind of config, I've done a ton of guides in my life and I try to be as good as this video. Thanks!
Dang, thanks man! It’s only funny because my add is so bad, but sometimes allows me to hyper focus and make something useful 😂
Thanks for explaning this in such a way that a total noob can understand just started my homelab and felt way over my head with 3+ servers with proxmox, unraid, jellyfish, etc...
Glad I could help! Some of this info is super well documented, other stuff seems to follow fight club rules 😂
With the new TrueNAS scale out currently, I think it now has Docker.......maybe a new instructional video could be in the works? Love your videos!
Second this! I would absolutly love an updated guide! Pretty please with cherries on top.
YES PLEASE!!! I would love an updated video!
Started watching this video about a month ago and it's still serving me.
Super useful info, Many thanks
So glad I could help!
This is wonderful! Have followed it step by step and got everything setup and working well! Thank you a lot!
I am new to TrueNAS but thank you for all your time and efforts in educating us all with your experience, time and wisdom. I am definitely going to subscribe and would recommend to you all aswell.
I love this! Thank you so much. 40 years as a nerd and I’ve finally found my niche 😂
I don't normally comment on YT but wanted to say a big thank you to you for saying something in the plex section that made me realize where to adjust my pathing that allowed me to update my plex server that I had been fighting with for months now. Now to watch the rest of the video.
So glad I could help! Thank you for the kind words
Really appreciate this video. You have given me the inspiration I needed to finish my truenas build!
Glad I could help!
Great video that explained everything really well! Just built my new NAS and had all my downloads up and running in a couple of hours.
So glad I could help!
FOR ANYONE CONFUSED BY TAILSCALE LIKE I WAS: Mr Randy is using the TrueNAS catalog version of the tailscale app install. The config screen for the Truecharts app looks WAAAY more complicated, and it won't have the options he shows at the same locations. Make sure you're using the original catalog's install if you just get lost on the install screen
Agreed, sometimes truecharts let you customize too much to the point of WTF is going on here?!?!
really great video. very well explained, especially the the sabnzbd part and the news part (i went with eweka), and also covering the the entire Arr suite.
So glad I could help.
I loved the video it has been a great walk thru on what is needed to get up and going with sab, sonarr, radarr and such. I don't use truenas. I have a asustor 8 bay using their built in software and most of my apps are running on a windows nuc but the app setup was extremely helpful since the apps (so far) are the same regardless of what os you run them on
Thanks, that’s good to know the setups are the same! This will undoubtedly help someone else.
Bro ProMox is a Breeze! 😂 the only finicky thing is setting up high availability ( as if you mess up, you have to rebuild the entire proxmox os ) however it's more for companies or organizations for virtualizing your environments such as firewall and all your services, scale inside proxmox
I think it’s just muscle memory since I’ve been with truenas…since it was freenas 😂. I’m not opposed to giving it a shot again…as long as someone else makes this exact video for proxmox so I can follow it 😂😂😂
i just deleted truenas and tried this with proxmox or good word attepmt and ya i went right back to truenas that shit was like rocket science lmfao
Hey Randy, I realized you never actually showed the process of creating an SMB user. When creating the windows and unix shares, they can't be accessed via the windows network tab until a smb user is created and that user's credentials are used to login. Would have appreciated this crucial step being covered and what the recommended setup for one is.
I will keep that in mind for when I do this update video here shortly. Thanks man!
Awesome video man, just what I was looking for, especially SABnzbd - how would you set up the paths (i.e. 'watched / download / completed etc)? Your Yottamaster storage, is not a NAS, just a standard USB-C cable? How does Truenas find/know about this? Apologies for the noob q's!
I set up my sab folders how plex likes to see them. Movies, music, tv. I then have one active download folder for temporary storage as sab is downloading, unpacking, reassembling the news articles into a real file again. Once it passes all those checks, your arrs will move the file to their final location (just follow the data management tab instructions in the video). As for the yottamaster,the usb-c interface is great. Just plug it in and truenas sees each drive, and it’s fully s.m.a.r.t. Capable. Universal Serial Bus wasn’t always what it is today. It’s a perfectly viable option now for mass storage communication.
I haven't followed this video but i hope to soon. Thank you for putting it together.
If you have any questions along the way let me know!
great video. Perst ACL was a revelation 👌
Hahahaha, glad I could help! If there is one thing that gets me with truenas it’s ALWAYS access control lists. As a home user, they really should make it easier to just be “open”…but it’s way easier now than it was 10 years ago so I’ll take it!
Hi there, interesting video. The most exciting thing for me was immich as I recently tried to install and use it on a proxmox environment (in a docker compose) but I struggled with editing the paths to store my photos on a physical hard drive. It was very complicated for me because I have no clue how docker works and don't understand it.
The next thing was updating immich server on docker so I'm very interested to see this method of installing it in true nas. Will try it next. Is updating easy?
Updating it every few days (is there an option to update automatically if there is a newer version?) seems to be very stressful isn't it?
Anyways a very good alternative to Google photos with the only 15 GB free storage, I really have to switch because my storage is nearly full. 😂
This is a great video. I'm just getting into this stuff and the learning curve is steep! Just a quick question, how do you download like this without drawing the eye of your ISP? Wouldn't you have to have your system on a VPN or something so that your downloads arent noticed by the ISP? Thanks again!
With a https secure connection direct downloads from Usenet servers go unnoticed by your isp. Further, they only really “care” about torrenting when informed by a 3rd party snitch whose literal job it is to rat on people who aren’t behind a vpn if that makes any sense. Trust me, your isp doesn’t want to be bothered with that stuff either (unless maybe you have Comcast of time warner and it’s THEIR content 😂)
@@Randyisanerd great info, thanks! Strange though, Radarr doesn't seem to be available from Truecharts.......only the Truenas version
I’m learning sometimes you’ve got to give it a day or two as they update and replace distributions. Both are well supported, high functioning, and close enough though.
Followed your guide here and it worked out great... I finally migrated off my old Ubuntu based media box that's been spinning 8x 1TB drives since 2006... The only thing I'm not completely happy with and having to tinker is quality settings... I'm really struggling to find / update some of my media with Sonar because of the limitations I set with your settings... but, just like others and you... I won't want a 600GB series... so I'm trying to find the right settings to get some older stuff that's getting tagged as not valid.
I did end up cranking mine up a tad because I was missing a bunch, especially if .265 wasn’t available. So set your “preferred” to a realistic .265 size, but then blow up the “maximum” size so it’ll still capture something if it’s the only option available. I never got into tdarr to re encode those files, but apparently that’s an option too. Just seems like a steep learning curve.
how did you install apps ? Since Truecharts has been deprecated
I installed everything through the native Scale app install page. No need for TrueCharts now
This is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much!
Glad I could help! Let me know if you have any questions along the way!
Why not have your ISP router hooked up to your UPS as well?
That way you don't lose internet when power outage happens, hence no need for Jellyfin.
Great point, and we do. Our isp runs their lines on power poles here and we’re good for a multi day outage once a year when someone hits a pole, or a tree comes down. I’d just like to rest assured I will be able to watch red dawn as the world is crumbling around me, you know?
A great Video Randy, I have the ARRs setup on Ubuntu and Docker using Portainer to manage them. My storage server is on TrueNas Core. I am looking to move all the apps onto Trena's Scale, Good to see you have already done it. Have you setup plex on Trena's Scale? and if so did you use the iGPU or an external GPU?
Yessir. Plex is great, maintained, and frequently updated! Using the ipgu on this minisforum i5-13500 and it’s doing great. Even transcoding from 265 to 264 when needed.
I did an “upgrade” on an old server from freenas 11, to truenas core, to scale. I was puckered the entire time…but it went off without a hitch! Best of luck!!!
@@Randyisanerd Nice, you have walked the walk, I am about to start that now but I I'll still keep my files on a separate server, Truenas Core. The apps will live on what I am calling an application server (Truenas Scale) and it will be all NVME, no spinning hard drives.
Nice! I just suck with user/group share permissions and every time I try to get fancy I break something 😂 let me know how it works out!!!
"I loved your video. I appreciate the effort you put into it-great work! There’s a lot to learn from it."👍
Glad it was helpful!
Complete arr guide? Where is the part when you install and set up Whisparr?
Bahahahahahaha! Touché good sir. Not certain the wife would approve…but I’ll at least start the conversation now that you brought it up 😂
as of late 2024 truecharts is no longer usable in the method mentioned here due to some incoming changes to truenas sacel moving to docker
thank you, i thought i was going crazy.
Randy I bought a used Yottamaster Y-focus FS5C3, i think yours is same model with 2 usb-c, one hub and one main, i connected my hard drivers and Truenas is having trouble detecting my 4 hard drives. It detects 2, then a new 3rd one gets error "ZFS Health". but i switch them around and it switches the error to another drive. They are all different sizes. I read that Truenas doesn't recommend using USB drives. I'm also using a usb-c to usb-a cables and tried different ones.
I’m using two of these now, daisy chained with zero issues. I’m on all usb-c to usb c cables though…
@@Randyisanerd thanks randy, it was something with the adapter i used, i switched the cables and it works now 😊
this is so confusing. how did you create the dataset ? I created a dataset, and tried to enable SMB share for windows but I get an error when created the share.
I'm struggling with the radarr root folder. The Media folder I created does show up in windows explorer with all the stuff that should be there but radarr doesn't find it so I cannot add it.
Hi there, just want wanna thank you for this video; hands down only video on youtube about TrueNAS where I could understand what is going on why; my home media server is now up and running within a day; thanks a lor
So glad I could help! Have fun!!!
Sorry if this is a dumb question but i've been stuck for a week. I have everything running with SMB but i have no idea what to do for qbittorrent so that it is bound to my proton vpn, and i dont want the entire nas going through the vpn (i think, but i dont know, if i pay for proton is there a benefit to using it for the entire nas vs just qbittorrent?)? Idk if this is something you can make a video about or maybe link me to some guides that may help?
I honestly don’t mess with torrents, but you’re not the first to ask. I can dig into it after the holiday weekend and see what I can figure out.
how about creating the dataset for immich guy, dataset preset is apps or generic, and which permission too
Are you saving you app configs under ix-applications? if so how are you backing up app configs?
I am saving app configs in the ix systems folder, and it was not smart 😂. It’s going to make electric eel setup a bit of a challenge for certain services for sure. My only super critical config is immich, I’m just putting off research until a verified stable release. Which hopefully allows me to procrastinate a bit longer 😂
probably a dumb question, but how reliable is an external storage system connected via USB for 24x7 uptime? is there any meaningful advantage in going with more direct chipset/pci-e connections?
Not dumb at all. If you ask on reddit, there are a TON of purists that say it’s a terrible idea. With the advancements in connection speed and robustness of usb c…I’m not worried about a thing. I mean. I’m also not running ECC memory on this server. But, it’s all replaceable media (save for the photos which ill “snapshot”back up additionally to to fire safe occasionally)
Try putting 6 normal consumer grade hard drives connected with your motherboard sata port and raidx them all up and your could still have problems , WHY because if one drive spends a little long reading from the array it will confuse the system stop the full array , that why you have drive for raid systems .
I've been running a 4 bay from Orico over USB to a beelink mini pc running unraid for about 17 months now, not a single issue related to the enclosure or USB at all. As Randy said, it's the Reddit purists insisting there are issues with USB which have essentially all been squashed now, especially if you buy from someone half decent using branded USB controllers
Interesting takes here I agree Reddit/Truenas Forums are full of "No USB" and "You need ECC"
I personally went for a small mATX case for now with ECC Ram but I am looking to extend this one with a USB Enclosure later on as well. Lets see how the opinion about this is in 1 year.
Still I would at last mention this in a pinned comment or at the beginning of the video. Making educational videos on UA-cam and telling people to connect your HDDs via USB to your TrueNas is definitely not risk free.
Great tutorial, i'm only having one issue, Sonarr keeps having issues with this error: Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr. I've confirmed the path exists and files are still being moved after download, but that error still appears
If memory serves, I believe this is if you save files to the main root folder. Try burying saves one level deeper.
@@Randyisanerd i figured it out, sorry it was my fault, or actually, i'm not sure lol it turns out sonarr was using a category that didn't exist for the download client, i updated to "tv-sonarr" category and all is working properly now, I think it was just "sonarr" at first, i'm thinking maybe a symptom of upgrade to latest version. Thanks for the video!!
Please make another setup video using just truenas apps, since the developers essentially killed using truecharts
amazing video! did you have to set up access controls in tailscale? i set it up like you did but i can not connect from my phone at all and i think it may be because of access control settings on the admin console of tailscale.
Do you have the “subnet” and “exit node” tags under route settings checked?
@@Randyisanerd under "Advertise Routes" i have my local IP and subnet listed. then i have "Advertise Exit Node" and "Userspace" checked like you did in your video. if that's what you're talking about.
Immich is great, just one thing is suspicios: one cannot export all the photos/videos in a batch. And I didn't find the way to access the media on the dataset as well.
I never looked into bulk export, but I’m sure the devs would love the feedback!Media is buried a few folders deep by user, so you can get it if something were to ever happen, but since it’s all distributed over a pile of folders it’s wouldn’t be easy or fast. I can look tomorrow and post the path to it if you need.
Hello, I was thinking of using the same setup. Is that yottamaster DAS hot-swappable?
Yes it is!
I've heard a lot about linux and usb-c enclosures not being dependable. I'd be curious to see how that's doing for you long term.
Welp, it’s been 9 months of spinning these disks 24/7 and I haven’t had an issue 🤷♂️. Well that’s a lie. I pulled the wrong disk one time experimenting and it really didn’t like that, but a sudo pool clear command fixed that up right quick.
Awesome! Thanks for the reply! Are you able to see the individual drives with serials, in truenas?
Yes sir. They list as sda through sde, click on each will show the serial numbers. I have a second set of disks I’m going to spin up in a bit to run a raidz2 for photos exclusively. I’ll let you know how those go as this box allows you to daisy chain two together on the same usb-c bus (10gb capable, running at 5gb each box) so it shouldn’t slow down either!
I once had multiple servers running but decided to consolidate everything into VMs, now running unraid on a 1700x then upgraded to 5800x and 64GB ram.... all is good
I didnt go with intel because all their stupid P & E cores thing, I want to have full control and power of my CPU
How did you setup your NFS shares, I have the SMB shoes working but need to now access the same dataset but for an NFS share
Amazing video, I just see that now, but currently I own the same setup that I buy 6 months ago.
Good idea for the 4k inside your home network only, I think I'm gonna change my setup with only 1 radarr to 2. For the VPN, I use gluetun for only the containers that I want to go through this VPN.
can you please make an updated guide as now Truechart is gone and docker is in. Thank you
You bet. It’s on my list here as soon as things calm down and a clear upgrade path exists!
@@Randyisanerd Really appreciate it Sir. Thank you
45:30 is what i came here for, that gives me my shared folder to drop my videos into. WHY the repository wiki whatever its called, says "just add your library and there you go, I cannot fathom
Hahahahahaha, if it’s not permissions issues with me, it’s always file paths! 😂 glad you’re up and running now!
I am running TrueNAS ElectricEel 24.10 RC and do not have the option to add a catalog in discover apps, do you need a license or something?
Electric eel moved to docker containers, and the true harts portion of this is officially dead…so I’ll have to make another video once there is an official release.
@@Randyisanerd can't wait!
You have any issues streaming outside your network with plex? aka, do you use it while away from home?
Excellent point I didn’t really cover! We stream outside the home a fair amount and love it. To do this you’ll have to forward port 32400 on your router (Plex default port unless you change it in setup), and that’s different for everyone depending on your router. First step is log in to your router (typically 192.168.1.1 admin password) and click around until you find advanced, port forwarding. Then you’ll define the port, and point it to your ip for your server with Plex on it. Once that’s setup there is a connection test section in Plex web that will let you know if it’s setup right 👍
I’m not 100% sure - maybe I missed it - but I’m getting the error from Plex to secure it using a ssl.
So your plex is up and running normal in the house? When you go to the web app, settings on the top right, remote access on the left. What does it say? You should be able to test here and it should turn green and say “fully accessible outside your network” once that port is forwarded on your router.
So what I noticed is, it wouldn’t allow me to do it until I clicked on the port button, then it magically worked. Forgot to update.
Glad to hear it resolved! I really should have covered that better!
The Truecharts Apps wont install. I'm on the latest ver. Did something change?
Yeah truecharts pulled the plug on new installs a bit early after truenas announced a move to docker containers for their next official release. Kind of a bummer for people that are now stuck in the interim. This issue should go away in a few months time once everything is sorted with docker. I’ll do an updated walkthrough.
Awesome guide. if you arrange the timecodes so that the player would have chapters ,it would be awesome.
I’ll have to look into how to do that, I’m new to this 😂 thanks!
Got it! I was missing the 00:00 for it to work! 🙏 thank you!!!!! 🙏
Which model of that little PC did you get ? I’m trying to find it on Amazon and i didn’t see that exact model :)
Yeah this model was short lived for some reason 🤷♂️ I want to say npb5, but then they came out with the other small form factor with dual 10g nics shortly after so I think they stopped pushing this one. I believe the new one even has the new iris xe igpu which is like twice as good.
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For TruenasCore, the apps user does not appear in the User or group drop down, does Core have this user/group or is there a different user which should be used? Or does it need to be migrated to Scale?
If memory serves everything under core was owned by user and group “media”
can you acces immish outside of the network ? like you're video with cloudflared and nextcloud ?
I use Tailscale to connect with immich when I’m outside my network, I really don’t want to expose family photos to the internet no matter how safe it seems. I’m sure it’s the same steps and most likely “safe” enough, I just haven’t personally done it. Hope that helps.
@@Randyisanerd thank you for the quick response.
Could you make a tutorial now how to migrate from TrueCharts to TrueNAS for radarr, sonarr, lidarr etc? Now that TrueCharts is no longer supported for TrueNAS and these apps don't exist as TrueCharts?
That’s a solid idea. I’ll work on that. Thank you.
@@Randyisanerd that would be awesome thanks! Myself, i I basically learned how to instal all my apps for true charts using host path… but now I can’t get the official apps to instal cause there seems to be more requirements for permissions and can’t seem to get radarr etc to find my media
Good Stuff Randy, Which model of Yottamaster is that? Thanks
I’m using the yottamaster 5bay usb-c. AliExpress shipping is crazy fast from the official yottamaster store (6 days and I’m on the east coast) they market it as the y-focus model. I’ll watch the video at 29:00 and reply again for the other bit
@@Randyisanerd No need I found what I was looking for thanks,
Ah ok. So for the “host”, that’s the IP of the server we’re setting up. That will be displayed on your truenas dashboard. Since all of these services run inside the truenas os, the IP will be the same for ALL of these services, just with a different port to communicate with their webGUIs. Does that make sense?
@@Randyisanerd Yes sir that is kind of what I was thinking and then figured out. Thank you again.
@8:28 - what the more secure settings to have, or the Best Practice ?
Most secure is to really hunker down and learn Linux permissions and setup proper users and groups and ACLs...but I suck at that no matter how hard I try. I'd rather limit my network access and have my server setup wide open like this so anything on my network can openly communicate with it. SMB is just a windows thing, so if you don't need that access you can skip that part.
I was knocking expecting "The first time that my son saw boobs." LMAO
so @ 32:10 you said tell it you want to do renaming. will that also change the torrent file or will it make a hardlink? I am trying to have mine set up to keep seeding once things are downloaded.
That, is a fantastic question. I honestly haven’t messed with deluge in a long time. I will experiment and find out though. My guess is that it’s going to ruin your seed as soon as it renames unless there is a copy function that I’m not aware of.
Truecharts repository doesn’t work. How else can I install apps I want?
At this point we’re in a holding pattern until a docker path becomes available from ixsystems. Once that’s available we’ll be able to install ANY docker container and this OS is really going to take off (if it’s handled right)
DO you have Whisparr installed as well - that is some box of tissues!!
Hahahahahaha. I do not 🤣…currently
I rarely comment... But, you deserve this comment. Good stuff. Set it up with some tweaks, but you were super helpful.
great Video. i do have one problem. when connecting with Immich on my phone, it will connect to the server but fails on my password. and it is the right password.
That is super weird. Try adding another “user” in immich maybe 🤔 and see what happens there.
Hi thank you so much for this tutorial, just one question is thundernews enough for privacy and to hide my real IP?
So, here is the thing. Some news hosts will log your ip with requests, date, time. Others “claim” no logging. I’m not an expert there, but there are some great communities on reddit that go into great detail on stuff like this. R/usenet
so for you, have you experienced any trouble using it for torrenting media with regards to privacy?
i got my radarr, sonarr, prowlarr, jellyseer working now because of your in depth tutorial, many thanks. however i havent decided if i will be using usenet or just a vpn with socks5.
I did something wrong, Immich has been spinning up for 6 hrs !
was able to point all paths to mnt/hoastpath/subfloders in v23.10.2
no error logs. no shell output.. so I'm not sure where it's unhappy.! convenient. =(
Hmmmmm, mine said “deploying” for a while, but it was actually working. Does the web portal link take you anywhere, or does that timeout?
@@Randyisanerd correct:
Deploying.. web portal is not available . try #2 & App stuck on Deploying again. with 60% CPU use.
I have that 5 bay yottamaster like yours and tried it with proxmox , but proxmox uses the serial no / make for the mounting .
but it look like the yottamaster reports all the drives to have the same serial no / make which crashes my server .
Windows uses the uuid for mounting and most linux , but proxmox doesn't like that 5 bay.
I love the fit and finish of the yottamaster! I was able to get it to work in proxmox but you had to get the serial number for each drive and “pass through” in the command line, but man what a time consuming nightmare. Truenas really is the way to go for this use case. I hope this video help you at least a little!
Only bit I want to figure out yet is installing home assistant as a VM, since the container version has limitations with basic things like the community store.
@@Randyisanerd I've just tried it under proxmox , the only problem with my mini pc is I've maxed it out , 64gb ram , 2 x 2tb nvme drives and 2 x 4tb SSDs, so would waste a full 2tb drive just for the boot.
Looking at the drive is only used for boot so wondering if I could use a small usb hard-drive for that ?.
When you say "had to get the serial number for each drive and “pass through” in the command line" do you mean the uuid because on mine it passes the same serial on of the first drive on all drives I think ?.
I have a feeling as I fill this thing out I’ll be headed for 64gb of ram here shortly too. I guess we could remove our WiFi/Bluetooth chips since we’re hardwired and put a small boot ssd in there right? Someone’s gotta make a short little small capacity 2230 ssd right?
@peteradshead2383 I just found a WD 256gb 2230 for $17.50…now you have me thinking. I could use the stock 1tb for a write cache or, or a vdev just for downloads until they finish and move to spinning disk storage or something…
@@Randyisanerd I'd love to know if that will work. TrueNAS doesn't need very much space for boot drive
I have Immich installed on my Truenas Scale and the latest version is 1.105 which does not support mobile. How did you update to 1.9?
There were several “breaking changes” in the past 12 months. There are guides on how to backup and restore, but luckily I was late to the party and none of my updates have broken anything for me.
Did you get any warning about usb usb drives for your zpool? I use a different 4 bay usb 3.2 gen 2 enclosure, but I always get these warnings about using usb drives. I also was only able to get 50 megabytes per second write transfers using the usb enclosure
I do get a usb caution, but the transfer speeds on this usb-c enclosure are close to 160mb/s for me in the real world! (Large transfers, small is hitting 250mb/s)
@@Randyisanerd Is there a solution for truenas only seeing the a 5 disk pool as a single disk?
How is your experience Truecharts apps breaking regularly with biggerTrueNAS updates?
I haven’t had any real breaking changes on updates other than immich as it’s been developed, but they are super good at documentation so it been easy to work around. I literally had a version of freenas 9.something running on my basement for 7 years with zero updates until radarr no longer supported my old ass version of mono, and even then it still half worked. Yeah it’ll show you that there are newer versions of apps available, but everything will still work if you don’t update, for a very long time.
@@Randyisanerd aaa that's your solution 😉. I am a total opposite. Update script running every day. 😂
Followed this but alas, I'm running into the same issue I'm running into everywhere with the arr stack. I can't see my storage in the root folder. Followed everything, have permissions wide open and still doesn't show up. I just see the container files. Any advice?
Can’t see it…from windows? Or can’t see it from the “storage configuration” while setting up the app? Make sure you have your media dataset defined, and then shared via SMB and UNIX. When you are in the datasets pane, select your media dataset, on the right side it’ll say roles, apps…make sure it says “this dataset is used by:” and all of your arrs are in there. If they are not, it’s a setting while configuring each arr app. Let me know!
@@Randyisanerd It was a stupid error on my part that I figured out! My interface is a bit different than what was on screen. When you're setting up now it asks where to put the app files and then you have to select to add additional storage to mount those files/give access.
I've been trying for a week with linux servers and docker to connect storage with no avail, so when it happened here I was upset -- but a simple settings change and voila! All working. Thanks for this video -- it finally allowed me to get my homeserver up and running. Truenas for the win.
So glad I could help, and that you’re up and running. It really is quite liberating!
So ... how do you reinstall in case of a catastrophic failure?
Depends on the failure mode. But assuming you’ve got snapshots you could rollback.
Quick question do you use a vpn? With this like Nord also what is sab is that basically like qbittorrent but different?
I have VPN for home Internet, but when you connect to secure usenet it’s not necessary (and would seriously slow speeds down). SAB is a usenet download manager, yes very much like qbit or utorrent is for torrents.
@@Randyisanerd dang ya i never used unset im so used to using nordvpn with torrenting if you could maybe in the future show how to do this with glueton would be dope man for real because i cant find any 1 setting this up for the life of me and if you go to truecharts for help holy shit there toxic as fuck
i don't get what I'm doing wrong i follow your steps and everything never seems as easy as you make it to be, Prowlarr refuses to connect to anything, its all connection refused.
And you are copy/pasting in the corresponding API keys from your indexers and clicking the test button?
Hi what is the exact model of that Yottamaster? Is it the 5 bay RAID?
Yes, it’s the 5 bay usb-c. On their website they call it the “Y-Focus” on their site for some reason. It’s way cheaper on AliExpress, and ships fast. But I won’t stop you from ordering on my Amazon affiliate link either!
hi, i don't understand how i find a "server" torrent to add in prowlarr and how i find the servers that have movie and tv show in my language
So. Usenet needs three things. A provider, a search engine (indexer), and a download tool (sab shown here). I did not show any peer to peer (torrent) setups here as I believe it’s frowned upon. Specific languages are tough, but bazarr for subtitles is great, and trash guides may be able to help with language specific filter setup for you. Good luck!
Please please please do a follow up on how to protect the *rr traffic with a vpn (mullvad etc..) and lock it down so it only uses that vpn connection while not disturbing the tailscale.
I am prepping for a new whole home tplink setup with multiple access points. I’ll try to make VPN/wireguard a priority in that.
Hi Randy! Really liked your video. Do you happen to have a discord? I'd love to get someone on one help with setting up my truenas scale install. I've been running into some issues trying to set up my aar stack and usenet. Think you can help?
Sorry man. No discord here, yet. What part are you struggling with though?
You should try AV1. The compression and quality are better. Compress it with Handbrake, I found the sweet spot at 28 compression. Oh good video, I'm new to TrueNAS Scale, way different the UNRAID. All i want is plex and storage movies. Im halfway of te video, hopefully you have a nvme cache drive for plex metadata setup.
I’ll look into the av1 thing for sure. I used to punish my 1060 with handbrake encodes for days at a time when I originally ripped my Blu-ray collection. I’d inmate things have gotten better there. As for the NVME, truenas doesn’t really benefit from them. I watched a pretty extensive test on someone’s channel that was really well done, I just can’t remember the name of it. If you can add more ram though…you can get those traditional nvme benefits there.
@RandysRandomHobbies I see. I run intel i9 14900, AORUS Master X z790, Corsaid DDR5 5600mhz 92gb of RAM 2 sticks, so if I need more RAM I can add more to max it at 128gb It's a simple setup. As you mentioned in your video, keeping the cost down to a minimum. What do you suggest to set up the NVME? It's a 2tb?
You could probably setup a write cache drive with it if you have a crazy fast internet connection or are doing large transfers to it, but from the tests I’ve seen, the gains aren’t earth shattering. I’d almost pull the nvme and use it in something else 😂