How many community plugins do you use with your unRAID array?



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The only plugins I have installed were via unMenu's package manager:

- unMenu 1.6

- Screen

- APCUPSD

- DS_Store and ._ file cleanup script

- unRAID Status Alert sent hourly by e-mail (Party check progress email)

- Monthly parity check

- Clean powerdown

 

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Not all plugins in the true sense, but I run...

  • APCupsd
  • unMenu
  • Powerdown
  • Monthly parity check
  • Twonky Media Server
  • Firefly media server
  • Asset UPnP for Linux (beta)
  • My backup server only runs the first four and an rsync daemon.

The average user doesn't want VMs, they want to be able to view a list of plugins within the webgui and click to install. All the other big players do it, and once the core is in place, the community can take over.

 

The average power user, which there are much less of, the VMs are a great idea, and am glad to see the company moving forward.

 

Power in simplicity is key...

 

I couldn't agree more.  For many, I feel that the concept of of setting up and managing one or more VMs to run a few relatively simple extra processes is a step too far. It's great for those that need it (for memory management, or greater protection between tasks, for example).  I'm just not convinced that I do.

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My unRAID 5.05 is a VM on an VMware ESXi host. 

 

I've a pretty new unRAID user (3 months).  I'm using the following plug-ins:

 

- unMenu

- CacheDirs

- Open VM Tools

 

Many of the items that -are- available as plugins I have running as separate VMs on my ESXi host.

 

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Unraid 6.0b5a

 

Currently:

* apcupsd

* powerdown

* screen

* htop

* I would be using SNAP if it supported Trim/discard, so instead I'm running a GO script mod to mount an SSD ... you know, in case you're polling for what needs to be baked into unraid :)

* A cron script to backup my VM

 

Up until my VM was built I also ran:

* Plex

* a cron script to backup my SSD

 

What I should be running but I've been too lazy to care:

* Monthly Parity Check

* Email notifications

Again, just in case if you're polling for what you should bake into Unraid :)

 

Editorial: For those hating on the idea of VM's for the "average user"... It is still in beta.  Don't stress yourselves out.  When done right, and I'm confident it will be, it should indeed appear to you as just a simple "click here to add feature".  You won't have to worry that what is really happening in the background is the VM (which was similarly "installed" in the background) is being told to grab a package and then present with a webgui link for the application when appropriate; much like Plex. 

 

These are early days but the progress being made is tremendous. 

 

So don't be scared :)

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TVRAID

 

mysql (mariadb)

sickbeard

sabnzbd

plex media server

plexconnect

swap file

cache dirs

unmenu

crashplan

utorrent

vfs recycle

powerdown

 

MOVIERAID

 

couchpotato

lazylibrarian

headphones

Plex media server

unmenu

cachedirs

swapfile

crashplan

vfs recycle

powerdown

Normally i use DYNAMIX too but since the upgrade to Unraid 6 beta5a this is not supported any more

but i miss the stats from DYNAMIX and the automated monthly parity check

 

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Nothing using the plugin architecture

 

Other Addons:

unmenu

 

 

Installed via unmenu package manager:

acpitool

bwm-ng

cpio

cpufrequtils

curl

ddrescue

dmidecode

ffmpeg

file

htop

iftop

infozip

md5deep

monthly_parity_check

ntfs-3g

pciutils

perl

python 2.7.3

screen

socat

unrar

 

 

Manually installed and maintained:

cuetools

flac

id3v2

ksh93

lame

shntool

vorbis-tools

pyTiVo

HME for Python

pyHME-Jukebox

pyHME-VidMgr2

 

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