Installation and Setup Videos - Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced

Today, we will install Cockpit to manage our dockers, VMs, terminal and Users on Openmediavault

I forgot in the video that you need backports enabled if it isn’t already.

Today, we install Proxmox which is a virtualization OS, so that we can then virtualize all our servers.

Today, we install Openmediavault into our Promox server as a virtual machine.

Reasons to Install to Internal USB

Pro
1) Lack of Room for Extra Hard Drives
2) Clean Look

Con
1) Can be slower
2) Life Span of USBDrive

Hardware Needed
USB 2 Flash Drive
USB 2 Header Adapter
USB 2 Header Cable

or

USB 3 Flash Drive
USB 3 Header Adapter
USB 3 Header Cable
USB 3 Header Cable #2

Software Needed

CD Burning
Openmediavault

Videos

Openmediavault Install and Complete Setup
How to Install Openemediavault Extras
Install and Configure Flash Memory Plugin

Have Fun!

Add a Holiday Theme to your Openmediavault server to impress your friends and family!

OMV Theme Changer

Please give Syrusstk a thumbs up.

Today,we will install a Tor Proxy on our server to surf anonymous using Openmediavault.

Post any questions HERE.

Can download metadata and covers. Allows user to search for books to download. Can convert our ebooks to different formats. Can download newspapers, magazines and books.

This is the cliff notes for the video. Watch the video for more details. Post any questions to the general forums.

Look up UID, GID
Open shellinabox and login
Type: id username
Write down UID, GID

Go toSharedfolders:
In appdata folder, create a folder for calibre.
In Media, go to books folder, in books folder create folder for calibrelibrary.
Move all your existing books into a new folder called existing.

Downloaddocker
Docker: cgspeck/docker-rdp-calibre

docker --name="Calibre" 


8082:8080 
8081:8081 


-e EDGE="0" 
-e WIDTH="1920" 
-e HEIGHT="1080"
-e  LIBRARYINTERNALPATH="/library" 
-e TZ=America/New_York 


-v /shared/appdata/calibre:/config
-v /shared/media/books/calibrelibrary:/library
-v /path/to/library:/library
-v /media/books/  /existingbooks
-v /downloads  /downloads

Start container

You can access the GUI by pointing your web browser to: http://youripaddress:8082

Click ok

Select "/library" as the library location in the Calibre wizard
Select right device for ebook reader, because it changes to correct format for that device.

User guide already there and also already in calibre folder inside of ebooks folder

Add books: /existing pick a book to add.
It will import pdf. It will extract rar files.

To change meta data, right click book, then click editmeta data, download meta data, to search for info and click ok.

Get ebooks, search for paid and free books, select none, choose free book store, Project Gutenberg and ManyBooks, search Franklin, click book, download, processing bottom right corner,

Paid Books, press Get books, select none, amazon kindle, Captain Underpants, right click, can’t download, only get in store, nothing happens when you click it.

Need to add browser to container, open shellinabox, type: docker exec -it calibre/bin/bash,
apt-get update, apt-get install firefox, yes, close.

Go back to calibre (firefox installed in container), can now go to the store, right click on book, click on go to store, buy it and download it as normal.

If you update the container, firefox will disappear, so you will have to re-add it again.

Click fetch news, choose country, pick newspaper or magazine, schedule download, pick download schedule, then download now. Check bottom right corner for download.Close

How to email an ebook to ereader.

Click Connect/share, setup email based sharing of books, add email server information to bottom left or click GMX, set a free GMX account, since firefox is already part of calibre, we can do it inside of calibre, create account, login, click email settings, click pop3 & imap, check send & receive emails by external program, close browser, add in user name and password, user name is email address, save, click test email, type in an email address to email too, such as the same email address as you just made, mail successfully sent. Sending service successfully set up.

Click Add email address, put in address you want email sent too, like gmx address, unclick auto send, click apply bottom right, close.

To send book, right click on book, connect/share, email to: properaddress, check that email was sent on GMX website, on device, open email and download attachment.

Set up calibre database

You can access the Calibre webserver by pointing your web browser to http://youripaddress:8081

Click connect share, start content server, error comes up for 8080, 8081 is the actual content server, just need to change the settings, click preferences, click sharing over the net, change the port to 8081 which is the port in the container even if you changed what you mapped the port too in the beginning.

Apply, ok
Click connect/server, start content server, no errors.

Go to youripaddress:8081
Opens calibre library. Click on library button to see your library. Can download, but read doesn’t work.

We will install OpenMediaVault in a virtual machine. Set up the web gui and install docker and shell in a box. Today was a busy day!

Syncthing is a great way to sync all your PCs, Servers and Android devices for free.

Openmediavault vs Freenas and their little secret.

Today, we explain and install Snapraid and Unionfs which give us advanced features to backup our array and efficiently use our disk space.

Back up all your files either to a local disk or to another server with Rsync.

Jellyfin Free and Open source media server install and setup on OMV.

Backup your Pc's in case of disaster, then do full system restores. I’m not showing restore in this video though.

Unraid vs Freenas vs Openmediavault, which is the best Nas software in 2019

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4 Port KVM Switch

VGA to HDMI Adapter if you need one.