I became frustrated with the constant changes with TrueNAS hosting applications. I setup channels on a Windows 11 N100 box that sips power. I point the storage to my NAS, originally TrueNAS and now Unraid. Going back to the older way of separating storage and compute has greatly simplified my life. I'm now able to make changes to my storage or computer without worry of the effects on the other.
Understood. Ironically, I have Channels running on a W11 box right now (Ryzen 7 7840HS) and it runs fine. I migrated off of an old QNAP (which is still around as a spare box for emergencies). As I spun up a more modern NAS (Ryzen 7 5825U with 64GB) am migrating my apps over to it as I'm thinkng of converting the 7840 to a Proxmox box at some point. Am busy this week so won't have time to dig into this but as my "production" box (W11) is fine I have time to tinker/figure this out. TrueNAS scale is still a little rough around the edges with containers and VMs so I'm hoping they will improve over time. I'd migrate to Fangtooth but have heard of some issues with it. BTW - my Channels install is a native (not Portainer) container and that environment is still a little sparse on Electric Eel IMO.
Going to Proxmox is a fine way to go. It's very easy to manage and there is lots of info out there when you need to search for solutions. I run Hyper-V on the N100 and this is the same concept, a modern hypervisor that's well documented. TrueNAS is a energy hog, I don't understand why they don't support modern energy conservation features of the underlying OS. It's the reason I moved to Unraid. I have two NAS, one with spinning disks that my backup target and sleeps when not in use. The other is on the N100 and uses SSDs so it sips power. My channels library is on the N100 and it's a VM.
Success. I used the Channels DVR app setup from the TrueNAS library. It defaults to using port 30270 as the port and remaps that to 8089. With that I was able to connect via Chrome browser but the android app running on Google Streamer would not connect. I changed the container to use port 8089 so both the container and machine port were 8089. With that I am now able to connect to Channels using my Google Streamer.
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