UnRaid running plex and HA

RobTi · 10 Aug 2022 at 10:58

Hi so finally looking to jump from truenas to unraid as i will only be looking to have plex and home assistant running on it for the time being, so anyone running these apps report any problems ?
Thanks

nst68 · 10 Aug 2022 at 14:32

I run HA in a VM and Emby (similar to Plex) in a docker container

RobTi · 10 Aug 2022 at 21:10

nst68 said:
I run HA in a VM and Emby (similar to Plex) in a docker container

clueless about VM's but going to give it a go

nst68 · 11 Aug 2022 at 11:11

It's pretty easy, I followed this guide

The only issue I had with running a VM was trying to get a USB Zigbee stick working, I tried a couple but never got it going.
In the end I bought a Zigbee PoE device from a guy in the US

RobTi · 11 Aug 2022 at 13:32

nst68 said:
It's pretty easy, I followed this guide

The only issue I had with running a VM was trying to get a USB Zigbee stick working, I tried a couple but never got it going.
In the end I bought a Zigbee PoE device from a guy in the US

Thanks I will have look when I get home

andy_mk3 · 11 Aug 2022 at 13:35

Unraid is pretty much made for this kind of use case. I run Plex on it in docker. I run HA on a separate machine with ESXi though, purely so that if/when I ever mess with the Unraid box I'm not messing with my router and HA.

nst68 · 11 Aug 2022 at 15:22

andy_mk3 said:
Unraid is pretty much made for this kind of use case. I run Plex on it in docker. I run HA on a separate machine with ESXi though, purely so that if/when I ever mess with the Unraid box I'm not messing with my router and HA.

What hardware do you run HA on, is it HAOS on top of ESXi?

andy_mk3 · 11 Aug 2022 at 15:48

nst68 said:
What hardware do you run HA on, is it HAOS on top of ESXi?

It's on a Dell Optiplex 5050, can't remember full specs now but I believe it's an i5 7500, 16GB ram. Running ESXi as the hypervisor, Home Assistant provide a virtual machine image premade on their website.

You can run Home Assistant on unraid with socket pretty easily though.

meandu229 · 11 Aug 2022 at 16:00

I run both HA and plex on unraid with docker, also run a ZigbeeUSB on the HA docker container. You can install both from the unraid app store, should get you most of the way.

RobTi · 16 Aug 2022 at 14:01

Thanks all looks like i will make the jump i just need to find out about my hardware so will start a new thread.
Thanks