All About Unraid Connect with 3 members of the Lime Tech Staff

06/20/23 • 46 min

Episode 18 of the Uncast Show is all about Unraid Connect:
Lime Technology's newest offering that will take your Unraid server to the next level as your one-stop shop for server management, monitoring, and maintenance.
Ed chats with three members of the Lime Technology team about Unraid Connect's current and future features, the company as a whole and much more!
Show Timestamps:
00:15 - Intros for Larry Meaney, Eli Bosley, and Spencer Jones
03:36 - How did Larry and Eli get into software development?
06:48 - New Unraid Documentation website announcement
08:13 - What does Eli, Larry, and Spencer like to do outside of work?
Mentioned:
-https://bambulab.com/en/x1
-https://pikvm.org/
15:30 - What is Unraid Connect?
17:00 - Managing your Unraid server from within the Connect UI
19:10 - Server Deep Linking
20:10 - All about certificate provisioning on Unraid
23:10 - Automated Flash Backup: How it works now and what features we're planning
24:10 - Unraid license management with Unraid Connect
26:08 - Unraid Connect language localization
27:05 - How to add a language to Connect: Open up a new issue in github
27:36 - Unraid OS localization: Unraid is supported in 18+ languages.
28:30 - Remote and Dynamic Remote Access with Unraid Connect
29:32 - Future plans for Unraid Connect
36:18 - Favorite movies, TV Shows, and/or books that everyone is enjoying
38:04 SPOILER ALERT- Skip ahead one minute to avoid a John Wick related spoiler
43:01 - Ed talks about camping!

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Jason from ByteMyBits

Plex Master Jason from ByteMyBits pops by to chat with Ed about AI, Plex, Emby, Unraid apps and plugins, and much more!
Big thanks to Jason for spending the time with us answering user questions and getting to know the man behind ByteMyBits a little more.

Show Timestamps:
01:00- Hellos and Intros

02:20 - Internet Speed Discussion: Upload Throttle Limits

03:35 - What Are You Watching, Jason?

05:00 - Unraid 6.12 release announcement

06:01 - New Unraid Dashboard Talk

07:05 - How big is Jason's Media Server, Loki?

8:15 - How Jason arranges his 168TB Btrfs DVR Files with Blue Iris, scripts, and ChatGPT

10:50 - CCTV drives: are they encrypted, and are there plans to switch filesystems to ZFS with Unraid 6.12?

12:40 - ZFS in the Unraid Main Array - Compression, encryption of data sets, and ZFS Send

15:00 - Deleting Data by Mistake

16:45 - Snapshots

17:45 - Initial thoughts on ChatGPT, Bard, and AI

21:05 - Chat GPT Banned in Italy

22:40 - Could AI Steal from Businesses and Companies?

25:55 - Plex Questions: Transcoding, Bottlenecks, and how to diagnose and remove bottlenecks

29:10 - H265: Does Jason Like It?

30:55 - i5 13600k and 13900k talk

32:10 - How to optimize server power usage (watch out for old power supplies)

35:00 - Home Assistant uses and setup (Docker vs. VM)

37:45 - User Question: Has Jason ever regretted showing tech mishaps?

40:18 - Audio Question from Nathan: What is Jason's favorite Unraid app outside of Plex?

41:50 - Question from bigbigspoon: Show us your Dockers running!

45:01 - Thoughts on Emby vs. Plex

47:15 - Plex's UI, market positioning and business decisions

49:50 - Media Clients

52:23 - User Question for Ed: What is your favorite ByteMyBits video?

56:46 - Last User Question from furry67: What is the recommended server for config for VMs and Containers?

59:30 - Performance and Efficiency Cores

1:04:10 - Keeping the i9 CPU Cores cool, Delid, and Lapping CPUs discussion

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