ZimaOS might make me switch...

0:00 so what we have here is a Nas and what we're going to be doing is installing zimma OS on it not only am I going to be installing it using it doing a demo testing everything out I'm actually going to set up a share and use it for something because I'm doing a whole another uh migration so this is going to be a real use case test of zimma os what is zimma OS you may be asking well it is a continuation of further development of cassa os which is a phenomenal kind of starter Nas or Home Server home lab operating system it has a great guey It's relatively simple to install applications I've reviewed it in the past I've tested it and it does make like my top five list for some of the operating systems that I recommend right here we're on the zimas space the blog for cassa OS here and this is the

0:47 differences here so cassa OS of course gives us our app store management widgets file sharing but zimma OS is expanding the functionality with remote access auto backup Thunderbolt optimization Cloud management and local storage chat gbt garbage and raid support now this is an older thing and a lot of these features are actually existing including I believe the raid support if we go over here this is their GitHub page the zimma OS public evaluation program and if we just go ahead and take a look at some of the change logs here every single time they add a bunch of new stuff so Sports previews for all these different docs uh they have virtualization support PCI discs now support raid meaning that raid yes is a thing on there so it's it's been a very active project so September 4th 12th

1:33 bunch of different updates here October the most recent one was 4 days ago so we are going to be checking out version 1.30 beta if you're interested in trying this out for yourself just go ahead and grab this uh uh image file and I used the etcher to go ahead and Flash it onto a USB drive which I already have plugged into this Nas so what I need to do now is actually go kind of set it up plug it in I'm going to try to hook up a capture card so you can see the installation process also one thing I will note my previous video was covering the zimma cube this is actually going to be the operating system that ships with that I didn't cover the operating system in that video because before it even had a chance to do a boot sequence I threw proxmox on it and as you could tell on this uh older Nas not older on this Nas that's it's not in use I had proxmox on

2:18 it as well but we're doing the reverse here let's go ahead and boot into this USB we just created boot up the zimma OS installer and here we go welcome to the installation tool let's go ahead and install zimma OS by hitting okay and now we select our installation device you can see I have four 4 TB hard drives in here but let's go and install it on the uh 128 gig mvme SSD and I would like to continue and do this and this is your last chance yes I'm absolutely positive of course when you install anything on anything it's going to wipe all the data so make backups if you're going to be doing this and just like that it is complete so I'm going to unplug the thing real fast ah warm plastic so I removed it and let's go ahead and proceed with this

3:05 installation here or not installation let's boot it up you green and here we go all right let's see what IP we got we got 163 so I'm going to go ahead and access this web gooey all right so I connected to the IP address here we have welcome to uh something uh we're going to accept their privacy policy I haven't read it but whatever and let's create our local account here there we go filled it in some pretty simple stuff let's go next so introducing Zima OS we can combine hard drives with a couple different raid formats manage assets and data access anytime anywhere with their remote login thing and then merge your own apps which I'm assuming is Docker so we have start from App Store dashboard let's start

3:50 from files here because we actually need to go ahead and create that raid pool so I am slightly concerned cuz um it says insert hard drives I already have hard drives insert they are currently already set up in the raid configuration so that might be the issue o we can do land storage which is cool uh so I might need to format these somehow if there's not a way to do this in here I'm probably going to have to fire up oh oh oh oh oh never mind I thought I was going to have to fire up G parted or something like that so I'm seeing it in the uh the dashboard or the uh yeah the dashboard here uh storage detected new insert Ed or newly inserted four discs let's view those so now let's create our raid create it as a raid five

4:37 and there we go now they're all there so we're going to do all of them 12 terabytes and then we're going to go next and this one what should I call it what should I call it let's just call it pool for now and initiate raate configuration it's going to wipe everything and create so let's give this a minute to do what it needs to do this is definitely taking longer than other systems would so I'm hoping there's no issues hey well done um so let's go to files just see what it looks like so here we have our pool and then we have our hard drive here which has some things already in it uh app data which I'm assuming is like the um Docker configurations backup documents downloads Galler media and whatever that is and then of course here we have our pool now one thing I saw that I'm curious about which I'm actually going to need to do because I'm going to back

5:23 up a bunch of stuff from unraid is add a land storage so let's do that doesn't look like it's going to Auto detect but let's just see if it's going to be able to pull and we're not going to connect this guest I'm actually going to log in and let's see if it just works for me hey beautiful so this is my unrated I'm going to back up some things in here later so I'm really happy that that works that easily it's usually not that straightforward or at least it hasn't been on uh other systems that I've used with unraid here oh whoa whoa ignore all that with unraid here you have to do this unassigned disc thing and add a share this way and then I've had hit and misses with the proxmox working right but yeah here we are we can view our documents um is there a way to create a file through here I don't think so

6:09 upload folder upload files um so this is pretty simple and general file browser I do like it let's go back to our dashboard so click on that there we go so file management use files to manage data from different locations if I click learn more oh it's just taking me back to here so let's get out of there and we have access so this uses their thing let's hit learn more um oh cool we have our ports so this is our some of our settings or network settings uh we have our 10 gig we have our one or up to 2.5 gig and so we can see our IO here which is cool uh connection we have our internet plugged in remote access zimma client allows you to remotely I'm probably not going to use their client

6:54 let's be honest here I'm going to use other means for connection but uh we have our remote ID there so I could reset it and enable or disable remote access with the zimma client what is the zimma client oh okay so they're going to have mobile apps soon Mac windows so that's really cool if you don't want to set up like a VPN twin gate or whatever you prefer to use if we go down over here to apps we have our app data location which it looks like we can modify this so if I hit here and let's say we wanted to change this to our pool um I'm aware start migration and there we go so it migrated it so that's a really easy way to actually switch where the stuff is

7:40 stored so now that's in the pool and if I wanted to like change the app Images which is the dot Docker all I would do select the pool and migrate it over so there we go um and then user database I'm just going to keep this the same for now uh under storage we kind of already saw this we created our pool here we could actually see all the drives on there um it's only a 4 Bas so I'm not sure why it's showing it like this but oh it's because this is supposed to be on the zimac cube so it's um this is the layout of the zimac cube so we have our four ssds and then our six hard drives so again this is supposed to be um stored on the zic cube but I Threw It On a completely different machine uh and then under General here the we have our version we could change our wallpaper so

8:27 if I wanted it bright which no and we could of course upload our own we have time language search engine the web UI Port uh news feed and power lights which doesn't work because it's not the zimac cube and uh developer mode Let's see what that looks like oh it's one thing SSH login we can enable SSH if we'd like to and oh we have a webbased terminal hey there we go now if I this is the dashboard I don't really see much going on let's go to widget settings see if we can add anything else so we have the time system storage and network so those just our side widgets here if I get rid of these where's the apps where's all the apps what's this oh so that's if we're connected maybe if I go

9:14 apps I see the apps here but I'm really not seeing where the actual app store is I want to get some apps man it says we got the app store ready to go well I need to do some exploring and experimenting maybe I'm going to reboot the system let's do that Boop restart please now my camera just ran out of storage so I need to move some files so this is a good opportunity to actually test to see if I could do that and I plugged in the SSD that I had plugged into my MacBook Air and it seems to have detected it and I forgot the exact format but it uh was able to see it it's the Apple only format so that's nice if I click manage here um it's not showing up here it detects it's there

10:00 but if I go to files and it's not there either so it might not be able to read the Apple only format I'm going to try this again with the other hard drive that I have that I actually use for my camera which is in a more um read friendly format there we go so I just plugged in the um the Samsung one that's attached to my camera so if I go manage here ooh now it actually sees it which is is great because unraid because of the partitions on this thing unraid had a real big problem mounting it so I open this up hey there we go can I view this as a list this is kind of backwards if I hit show as icons it shows as a list and if I hit show as list it shows as icons

10:45 so whatever uh I need to grab these last few days so let's just go ahead and grab everything here I'm going to give this a copy and then let's drop this into our pool shall we I'm going to make a new folder and call this um camera open her up and then let's just paste paste all 25 items now here we have oh oh oh Noe don't don't do that now this is a lot of stuff so it might take it a minute so let's just give that some time now while that does that let's check out some of the apps sorry you can't see my pretty face at the moment I know that's a real catastrophe but here we have the apps I had to restart the system after doing a migration of the data to the cool so do note that uh we have files uh zvm peer

11:35 drop settings and Ice Well Community right out of the gate here I believe we already saw settings um peer drop this is a drop files from other device anytime so just a nice little drag and drop interface um if I go to this right here I believe this is the virtual machine stuff so here we have Windows 11 Windows 10 and a couple different Linux distributions let's go with a good old fashion Linux Mint hit download um hopefully those window downloads download directly from Windows and or from Microsoft and not from somewhere else cuz that wouldn't be good and there we go so through the installation image into Data downloads isos We have the virtual machine name save to data VM dis size let's give it a nice 20 and under

12:21 advanced settings here this is where we can get looks like we could dedicate some cores to it set our memory choose our Network so we can Bridget set it as Nat and we can pick our bios here so not as many options as I would like but for just general spinning up something it it's pretty good for example I'm not sure if it's going to like automatically use the Intel quick sync stuff but let's go ahead and create that and here we go it's booting up uh pretty nice user interface here uh let's start Linux Mint oh we got to click in and then hit enter now I'm not going to go through the whole installation process I'm just kind of seeing it start up and see how kind of responsive it is initially and there we go boot up pretty quick connection established and we're in Linux Mint open up a terminal real quick Neo fetch it and there we go and it does seem pretty

13:06 responsive uh I'm going to power down this machine and see if we can get any other settings so if I just do a let's just force it down sure click settings here and it looks like we only get this so we could change the CD ROM which is good so we could get drivers or whatever we need uh but that's about it so I do wish there were more options here but for simple VM spinning up uh we're looking pretty good so let's get out of there and see where we're at here um it's still going 7% again it's a completely full two terabytes so that that's going to be a bit where' my apps go do I need to refresh it refresh oh no this is the second time

13:53 this has happened where I can't get access to my apps on the home screen oh no so I'm G to let my camera finish and then we'll we'll come back and there we go I refreshed it and the apps are back so hopefully that's not a uh A continuing issue but that was the virtual machine so now let's check out the App Store a lot of the times the docker implementation of these Naas operating systems isn't the best so um I'm hoping there have been some improvements but we can see um quite a large selection a lot more than you get from some other ones that I've noticed uh trans Mission we have sonar here um what's something I could spin up real quick let's do jelly fit I'm curious it's if it's going to allow us to do the uh Hardware transcoding so here it is

14:40 gives us a nice little description some screenshots um so we have install or custom install let's do custom install just to see okay so it's pretty basic Docker stuff so we have the docker image the tag the title the icon URL here we have the web UI stuff uh which right there if it's for um proxies and all that we have our networking so you can select that we have all of the ports filled out here are volume mapping so it's nice that that's there we have environmental variables and there it is cool so uh it is automatically giving us access to our hardware transcoding and any other looks like possible Hardware transcoding driver that is available is just mapping it uh we have our privilege

15:27 um container command which is really cool you can add that there so this this looks like a pretty decent implementation of uh Docker on here uh CPU shares restart policy uh cap we have container name I mean it looks good to me uh so let's just click install and it's going to go ahead and do that for us real quick it looks like the install is completed so if we back out of there um hopefully if I refresh this it shows the jelly fin icon no icons boy I don't know if it's just me or if this is like a a common issue I'm hoping it's just me let's be honest here see if I open up an app and then refresh it maybe maybe it's because of the migration let's try changing this back so

16:15 apps uh app data let's move this to back to the hard drive and it started and restarted Docker too so that could be the issue and there we go and we might as well do the app images as as well so let's move this to the hard and oh look they showed up so I'm going to do this one too just to move everything back how it was and I'll only use the pool for maybe like a virtual machine no not even that cuz I don't want hard drives powering my VMS definitely a bug but it is a beta so I'm not going to be uh bitching too hard and there we go and they're gone again ah oh oh oh I thought about it for a sec

17:00 I refreshed it too soon uh oh there it is yay so we have our jelly fin here um I'm not going to open it up I'm going to try to do a quick setting change now I do have that uh Network map so if I wanted to let's say this's media directory here let's pick a new location um ah it's not letting me use my share is it still mounted let's go check actually setting storage the pool is there Network okay so it's in files maybe oh yeah it's right there um I wish it definitely a feature request we should be able to map uh Lan shares within our darker containers cuz then I would have been able to throw up some media but for now

17:48 let's grab some so I'm going to drop just something into movies real quick it's moving pretty quick another thing I wish it showed me more details when this pastes like the speed speed and all that more than just the progress percentage there we go Charlie Brown Thanksgiving so let's go back home and open up jelly fin add our media library there it is Boop continue ah and there we go so here we go we got a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving obviously it's going to play just fine here now let's see if Hardware transcoding is working so let's bump this let's uh down it or not down render it a little bit differently here and then if I go to playback info we can

18:34 see oh it's still direct playing let's go down even more there we go now it's transcoding and it seems to be working so that's good that's very good now the real question is can I get a Docker oh there it is add a c containerized application okay so we could just add whatever we want here and this you might need to do this with something like image I wish there was compose support but I don't see an obvious way to do that is image already in here oh it is and they're customized for this so it should be the like entire compose file uh without machine learning image from gallery let's go to the Big Bear cassa OS and I just hit install I didn't do a custom install so once this finishes we can dive into settings and see what the

19:19 options are so there it is images installed if I go into settings let's see what we got going on here okay so right here are the various Docker images that are associated with it so I wonder uh did I just miss it before uh so we have the main app can I add another app here uh import what's import ooh so you could drag and drop the whole Docker compose file in here there's Docker CLI uh CLI to compose oh takes us here so that is super cool let's uh I'm going to grab something of mine what will happen if I throw in my entire media stack so the r compose uh give

20:07 this a copy and drop it in here so there is everything now I'm going to hit submit okay this is the very first time that I've uh used a Docker interface like this that's built into any sort of Naas operating system whether that be I I think this right here is better than sonology by a long shot uh I think I if it works I think I like this better than like UNR um I mean it's not better than painer but for what it is it's really good and here it brought in everything so this is like all the defaults kind of stuff granted it don't so uh gluten gluten oh so it didn't pull all these

20:52 environmental variables so you're still going to have to go through and customize you're going to have to add your environmental variables here because it didn't grab everything um here it grabbed almost everything so it's not perfect yet but this has great potential it did change some of these right away for us so it's um it recognized that the uh container or the U volume locations weren't accurate so it kind of changed that for us did nzb get have a network so if I go oh see network mode service gluten can I do that oh that's ports oh so bridge to gluten okay I like this a lot I I really do now real quick this is editor brand in here and what I need to mention is

21:38 this is not perfect yet obviously um I threw in a Docker stack and kind of edited it to actually match proper configurations and all that it did not launch properly and I think this main app right here this kind of composed thing is only for like background containers that the main app is dependent on so you can't at the moment properly launch a bunch of main apps you're going to have to set them up separately and connect them uh differently than just a simple composed stack so I do hope they change that in the future I still love the implementation and the potential but right now doing kind of the compost Stacks that like I have in my GitHub for example aren't going to work you're going to have to separate or set up the front-facing app separately um I got

22:25 some playing around and work to do before I can get everything working how I want it to so I do still love it I still praise it but it's definitely not where I need it to be to use it as like my main Docker uh machine granted uh for their kind of custom interface there should be like a um if I do this boom add a container there should be a little plus button right here which would be nice help us really easily create a composed kind of Stack uh directly through their interface um very nice nice granted again this is a beta we've run into a couple issues here and there but honestly I installed this on this Nas Just to kind of make this video and test it out I might just keep it on there I might let's go into

23:11 files real quick and try to make a share so let's go to our pool I'm don't know how to do this I'm just kind of making an assumption here if I click this oh there it is share via Simba let's make a Simba share so camera media pool camera um permissions Brandon read right uh create why is Docker in there oh cuz oh never mind so camera has been added uh Windows Explorer Mac OS Boop let's see if it just shows up real quick uh not really zic Cube oh hey camera oh it's not showing anything oh there it is wow and it's funny because LTT uh just made a video about I forgot the name it's a new Naas operating system which really just looks like a kind of front

23:58 end gooey for traz that they're going to try charging $300 for which is a lifetime license so there's that but 300 is crazy and this has the uh kind of user friendliness of all the features that they were kind of going off about on that video so I don't know man this is really nice um ice whale really has um for a beta has outdone themselves especially not especially cassa OS has always been cool but for this to be the development and the more kind of pro version of C OS this is up there this is going to be up there on the list especially once it comes out of beta and everything just works this is really really nice so I'm going to stop there because I'm not trying to sit here and S too hard uh there's obviously a bias here they sent me some of their Hardware

24:43 so I'm kind of like the hardware was good too the zimac cube uh this is Lightyear's better than the ug green implementation of their operating system ugen tried to get me to sign like a long-term uh deal where I like couldn't feature other things and I can see why it would have been rather lucrative but I I did say no so yeah uh with all that I do hope you have an absolutely beautiful day I'll leave a link to this down below if you want to try it out for yourself again there there are some issues here and there it's not perfect yet it is beta so I'd be careful throwing it into production if that's something you're wanting to do obviously if you do throw it into production have a backup of your data somewhere else because again it's a beta and my applications were disappearing on me are they going to do it again no good

25:29 okay have a great day and goodbye