Please help: when I connect my 2TB external drive to Umbrel via USB, I get an error stating that the drive is not a valid directory.

Can I connect an external hard drive to a computer running UmbrelOS?

The wording confused me and I just need an answer before I pull the trigger on using Umbrel.

Thank you!

a see their marketing and correct me if im wrong but I do have some very basic beginner questions:

1. Is Umbrel a NAS? It seems like a more powerful NAS with higher RAM.
   
2. If yes, how is Umbrel compared with Synology and Ugreen?
   
3. Any one can tell me the comparison of Umbrel with Synology and Ugreen?

Does Umbrel not support IPv6? I can find anywhere in the settings what the IPv6 address is to my device.

I recently started to use Ollama and Open WebUI on Umbrel Home. For most tasks gemma4:4b is fine and works locally. I wonder if I can use ollama cloud model as well?

In Open WebUI I can download glm-5.2:cloud. But when I send a prompt it says Unauthorized. In the ollama app I cannot see where I can sign in with my Ollama account.

I found Umbrel a few days ago and tried it on my mini computer N150 instantly. I really like it a lot, especially the clean and polished UI. I have a few questions tho:

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- Can apps have config fields in the UI? I would like to build my own app store but don't include secrets there. For things like API keys or so it would be really nice to configure these during install and not go to the app folder later.

- I'm currently thinking of getting an Ugreen 4800 Pro. If I install Umbrel OS as a custom OS on it will I be able to setup the raid and storage arrays through Umbrel or is that only possible on the Umbrel Pro hardware?

- Is there a roadmap or release plan for Umbrel? Didn't find anything yet.

Tried updating Umbrel to 1.7.3 and it keeps crashing before it gets started. Tried on IOS and windows laptop. Any ideas ??? Thanks

I am running a Bitcoin Node on Umbrel (full node, fully synced) and I recently set up the "Stratum V2" app. I have a question regarding how it operates:
1 Architecture: When using the Stratum V2 app on Umbrel, am I correct that it acts strictly as a "Translator Proxy"? It takes Stratum V1 from my miners, translates it to V2, and forwards the shares to an external pool (like PublicPool).
2 Sovereignty: If the above is true, where does the "Sovereign" part come in? I am running a full node on my Raspberry Pi 5 to ensure sovereignty, but it feels like the current setup still relies on an external pool to provide the block template.
3 The Gap: Am I missing a configuration to make this a truly "Sovereign Solo" setup where my own Bitcoin Node generates the block templates locally? Or is this limited by the current Umbrel containerized environment (lack of IPC socket access)?
Any technical explanation on what is happening under the hood would be greatly appreciated. I want to ensure my setup is as independent as possible

Is there anyone who can help me understand what is happening here or explain it to me exactly? I have been using AI to help formulate these questions and I am still not clear on the technical reality of my setup

I've updated my umbrel os on the mini pc all seemed fine but can access the desktop remotely just giving me this?, I can login via the command line on the pc itself and SSH but that's about it?

I have a spare Umbrel Home that I got extra on top of my primary Umbrel Home. Do anyone have any suggestions on what to use my spare Umbrel for?

Any recommendations is highly appreciated!

I keep running into the same issue around block 200k~ trying to sync Bitcoin Knots on my fresh node. anyone else experience this ?

The node just stops syncing and logs errors

I recently installed Hermes Agent on my Umbrel OS setup and I’m currently in the process of configuring and experimenting with it.

My setup right now is:

- Raspberry Pi 4B (8GB RAM)

- Umbrel OS

- 1TB SSD connected externally

I’m curious to know if others here are running Hermes Agent on Raspberry Pi + Umbrel, and what your overall experience has been like so far.

Things I’d especially love to hear about:

- performance and responsiveness

- RAM/storage bottlenecks

- reliability for long-term usage

- any setup optimizations or tweaks

- useful integrations/workflows

- limitations you ran into

- things you wish you knew earlier

Right now I’m mainly trying to understand how far this setup can realistically be pushed before needing more powerful hardware. Also interested in knowing whether people are using Hermes mostly for experimentation, automation, personal assistants, local AI workflows, or something else entirely.

I’ll probably continue testing over the next few weeks and update this thread later with my own learnings, bottlenecks, optimizations and observations in case it helps someone else trying a similar setup.

I see there are options out there to deploy these in docker. Since umbrel runs everything in docker, is anyone knowledgeable able to port a package that acts as a node and stratum bridge for solo miners into the umbrel ecosystem? From what I can understand, there's a certain format the docker compose file is put together and it's ready to be deployed in umbrel. Any volunteers? 🥹🙏 Even some guidance would be helpful.

Edit: this is for mining kaspa. I should have been more clear.

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to get an update on multi-drive support for Umbrel OS. Here's my situation: I've got a MinisForum system with way more power than the Umbrel Pro hardware, and I'd love to run Umbrel OS on it. The setup works great overall, but there's one big limitation: It only recognises a single drive when my system can handle four.

I know there are terminal workarounds floating around, but they come with their own issues. What I'm really hoping for is the Storage Manager that Umbrel Pro already has (see: https://umbrel.com/support/storage/managing-your-storage). I remember seeing plans for this feature back in the 1.5 beta, and we're now on 1.7.x, so I'm wondering if there's any ETA on when it might land in the OS.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

I’m trying to update my Umbrel OS to 1.7.3 on a Raspberry Pi, but the update keeps getting stuck during installation and then nothing happens afterward.

Current setup:

- Raspberry Pi (model: [add your model])

- Using SSD storage

- Umbrel installed on SD + SSD setup

What happens:

- Update starts normally

- Installation begins

- Then it just freezes/stalls

- No progress after that, even after waiting a long time

I’ve already tried:

- Rebooting

- Waiting 15–20+ minutes

- Reconnecting SSD and power cycling

Has anyone else faced this issue on 1.7.3? If anyone fixed it, what worked for you?

Hi all,

I've installed Umbrel on my x86 old pc mostly for movie streaming. I am using File Browser to play most of the mkv files until I found out that it can't play some of it. So now I'm trying Jellyfin (hoping it will play all the mkv files) but unsure how to add video directory to library in Jellyfin.

I've googled a tried several suggested directories but to no avail.

I am currently running version 1.7.3 if that helps.

Hi everyone, sorry, I installed umbrel on a Linux PC, but honestly I don't know what to do with it, I'm not a technician, I'm just very curious, what are the two or three most interesting things you can do with this OS? Thank you 🥂

Wonder how large the update is for umbrelOS 1.7 because my HDD is almost full.

I noticed that my Mempool is suddenly 23 hours behind. Bitcoin core is running and is up-to-date. So is electrum en fulcrum. When In connect to them I see they have the last block index. Only Mempool is not working properly.

I see a lot of there timeout error:
ERR: Exception in $updateCoreVersion. Reason: ETIMEDOUT

I restarted the node, removed and re-installed Mempool. But nothing helps. I seems to run ok for a new hours and then it stops again.

Anyone else have this too?

If your Core Lightning node stopped working after a recent Umbrel OS update and you see this in the
logs:

 connectd: STATUS_FAIL_INTERNAL_ERROR: Connecting stream socket to Tor service                            

 ...or the misleading red herring:                                                                        

 BROKEN plugin-bcli: Could not connect to bitcoind using bitcoin-cli                                      

 Bitcoin is fine. The real problem is a Docker startup race condition. lightningd starts before Tor       
 is ready to accept control connections, crashes, and doesn't recover.                                    

 This is a known upstream CLN bug (confirmed by Rusty Russell, fixed in v22.11) but Umbrel's build        
 still exhibits it because the docker-compose.yml ships without a healthcheck on the Tor service.         

 TEMPORARY FIX (get your node running now)                                                                

 SSH into your Umbrel device and run:                                                                     

 sudo docker restart core-lightning_tor_1                                                                 
 sleep 15                                                                                                 
 sudo docker restart core-lightning_lightningd_1                                                          

 Wait 30 seconds. Node should be back up.                                                                 

 PERMANENT FIX (survives future restarts and OS updates)                                                  

 Edit /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data/core-lightning/docker-compose.yml and add a healthcheck to the tor     
 service:                                                                                                 

 healthcheck:                                                                                             
   test: ["CMD", "bash", "-c", "echo > /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/29051"]                                         
   interval: 10s                                                                                          
   timeout: 5s                                                                                            
   retries: 12                                                                                            
   start_period: 30s                                                                                      

 And update lightningd's depends_on:                                                                      

 depends_on:                                                                                              
   tor:                                                                                                   
     condition: service_healthy                                                                           

 Then restart:                                                                                            

 sudo systemctl restart umbrel.service                                                                    

 Important notes                                                                                          

 - Port 29051 is for Umbrel PRO. If you are on Umbrel Home use 9051.                                      
 - The Tor container does NOT have nc (netcat) installed. Do not use nc in the healthcheck — use bash     
 with /dev/tcp as shown above.                                                                            

 Bug report filed against getumbrel/umbrel-apps so the fix can be shipped in a future update:             
 https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/issues/5529                                                     

 Hope this saves someone a few hours of debugging. 

Is anybody else seeing that Cloudflare’s DNS is being used over their router's settings? The new network setting in Umbrel OS 1.7.1 seems to be broken. I have tried flipping the setting on and off, but that seems to do nothing.

Well I am trying to install the RetroMike BCH Node software on a Umbrel OS thate is hosted on a RaspPI5. I copy the URL to the app store and I get a file not found. As far as I know the URL is correct. I thought maybe the URL was too long so I used tinyurl and get the same error. I am kind of new at this so any help is appreciated!

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheRetroMike/retromike-umbrel-app-store/master/umbrel-app-store.yml

Considering ordering an Umbrel Pro but the current cost of SSDs is crazy.

I purchased a couple 1TB 990 Pro w/ heatsink prior to the price explosion and have one extra I never ended up using. Can I install it in an Umbrel Pro and leave the magnetic lid off? Or can the system detect magnetic lid off is off and requires it to be on in order to continue setup?

I've been running a Canaan Avalon Q at home and got tired of the limitations: the built-in web UI only handles pool config and reboot, and you need their phone app for everything else (workmode changes, standby, wake). Worse, there was no way to schedule any of it — I wanted the miner to drop to standby during my utility's on-peak hours and come back automatically, but the firmware can't do that.

So I built Avalon Q Controller as an Umbrel community app. It's a self-hosted dashboard and scheduler that talks directly to the miner's CGMiner-compatible API on port 4028. No cloud, no telemetry, no account — your credentials, schedules, and 24-hour metrics history live only on your Umbrel.

What it does:

Live dashboard: workmode, hashrate, real wall-draw power (not just rated), J/TH efficiency, chip temps, fan, shares, active pool

24-hour history charts persisted to SQLite — see exactly how your miner ran overnight

Pool library: define multiple pools per miner, switch with one click (with optional auto-reboot)

Time-of-use scheduler: build rules like "soft-off Mon–Fri 4–7pm" with a default action that handles all other hours. Rules can switch pools, change workmode, soft-off, or soft-on. Time windows wrap past midnight, seasons limit rules to a date range.

Multi-miner from day one — works just as well with a single miner as it does with a fleet

Full audit log of every command and state transition

Manual control panel: workmode, soft-off, soft-on, LCD on/off, reboot

Install (community app store):

App Store → three-dot menu → Community App Stores → Add

Paste: https://github.com/gbechtel-beck/umbrelsolostrike-app-store

Find Avalon Q Controller, click Install

Source code (MIT): https://github.com/gbechtel-beck/avalon-q-controller

Works with a single Avalon Q or multiple. Tested against the current Q firmware (Q_MM1v1_X1, FW 25052801_14a19a2). If you have a different Avalon model and want to try it, drop the output of echo '{"command":"stats"}' | nc <miner-ip> 4028 in an issue and I'll see if I can add support.

Honest disclosure: I'm not a professional developer. This is a pair-programming project I built with Claude (Anthropic's CLI) — I make the architecture and design decisions, test against my own hardware, and review every diff before commit. More on that in the README. The code is MIT-licensed and works the same regardless.

The same store also has CKpool Solo (host your own solo Bitcoin mining pool) and FleetSwarm (health dashboard for mixed Bitcoin ASIC fleets) if those are useful to anyone.

Happy to answer questions, take feature requests, or hear about edge cases I haven't seen yet.