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    Today, we'll install ZFS on a New Openmediavault Install. ZFS is great for servers with multiple drives that need error checking.

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    So today, we will install the xfce desktop environment and use Remote Desktop to login into the desktop on our Openmediavault server.

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    Today, we install Bitwarden, a password manager, on our Openmediavault server.


    After making this video, I did see that you can create a free account on the Bitwarden website to use the mobile apps.

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    Today, we show what a multiarch container is and how to install it. We will be using the Picapport container as our example.

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    Today, we install Krusadera a file copying, moving and backup program that is similar to Midnight Commander but with a GUI.

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    Today, we install Pi-hole on Openmediavault to block all those ads that show up when we are on the internet.


    This video was based on this guide: [How to] Install Pi-Hole in the Docker Plugin


    Please visit the guide and give flmaxey a thumbs up for a good job. :thumbup:

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    Today, we will install Home Assistant, which is a home automation program, to combine all our different devices in one spot to monitor and control. That was a mouth full of a description.


    Visit Home Assistant for project ideas.

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    This theme changer is underactive development, so the browser refresh problem that I was experiencing has been fixed by the developer already. Today, we will install a new theme changing program for Openmediavault.


    Make sure you give syrusstka thumbs up: New omv-theme changer

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    Today, we add Portainer to Openmediavault. Portainer gives us another to add containers toOpenmediavault.

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    Today, we install Unifi on our Openmediavault server. Unifi is a great integrated Networking Environment that can be used from home to stadiums. Today, we install Unifi on our Openmediavault server. This is an example of a great home system: Unifi Home System

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    Today, we set our Openmediavault server to Sleep, Wake, use Wake On Lan to Wake other computers on our Network and Reset Permissions if we mess things up.

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    Today, we install Wetty to access the terminal in one click.

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    Today, we set up Motion Eye Surveillance docker on our Openmediavault server. Motion Eye was originally designed for the Raspberry Pi. There are dedicated images for that. This is to install it in a docker on a x86 machine.

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    Today, we install Netdata which provides beautiful graphs of everything that is going on in our server.

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    Today, we will install Cloud Commander, which is the fastest way to move files on and off our server, also the fastest way to move file between disks on our server.

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    Make incremental backups of your server with Duplicati.

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    Today, we’ll install Insync to make super easy automatic backups to google drive using Insync docker on Openmediavault. There is Raspberry Pi version of this docker.

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    Today, we will installDuckDNS a free DNS service that we can use to give our home server astatic name.

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    We will install Zoneminder to provide video surveillance and motion recording using Openmediavault and the cameras we already have. For the RaspberryPi, there aren’t any dockers that are exactly the same, but you can translate what I do to work with this docker: koenkk/rpi-zoneminder

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    Today, we install Letsencrypt which let us to get free SSL certificates for our server. There was a change in the container, so I am doing an update. Plus, this container most people have the hardest time with, so I decided to do a separate video with just Letsencrypt.

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