chewitt I'm using a version of the Raspberry Pi Bullseye as base for the OMV on my Slice, do a tidy bit older version and I was wondering if it is possible to get the LED's working on it?
Posts by Runaque
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The Slice add-on that managed the LED ring in the background is Python2 based and wasn't migrated/updated to Python3 which is needed for compatibility with LE11. You can cross-grade/update the main OS to LE11 by switching to the RPi2 image, but the LED functions will stop in the process. Cross-grading requires you to SSH in and download the RPi2 image to /storage/.update and "touch /storage/.update/.nocompat" to override the compat check which will detect a non-Slice image and abort the update process.
So I was thinking about that LED strip on the Slice and how it actually works, but there's probably no way to integrate the LED's into my Slice NAS project I assume? -
It's a while since I shipped my Slice to another LE dev, but CM3 was a nice bump over CM1.
To bad, I just made during the whole process a 16 page long manual how you convert your Slice into a NAS! It might not be as fast as a ready out of the box NAS, but it's good enough for me!
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I ran into the limitations of the CM1, which isn't 64bit, so I got myself an small upgrade to work on the little NAS project.
CM3At the moment I'm installing everything and hope to get further than a failed OMV install.
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IMHO wait until the RPi5 bits arrive then pull the drive out and connect to the new(er) RPi5 based NAS device. As much as I like the Slice box it's slow and dated and having the drive connected locally to the new stuff will just be easier.
I have a 2tb spinner for the RPi5 ready, so this Slice is a good practice and I seem to get somewhere right now. I basically combined files from an OpenElec into a Pi Buster-lite build.
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The easiest way would be if you keep running LE on the Slice and use it's Samba server. OFC that's not really a full-fledged NAS but you can share the data on your HDD.
An alternative is to install any RPi0/1 compatible Linux/NAS system and add the dtblob.bin from LE to the boot partition - then Ethernet should work fine, too.
so long,
Hias
I seem to get somewhere by flashing the "Buster" build to the Slice and add the bcm2835 files including the dt-blob.bin files to the boot and the slice.dtbo file to the overlays folder. The drive showed up on the network that way and I managed to log in to it and did the sudo command to update and upgrade, then ran into a usrmerge issue that it wasn't merged, fixed that with a command as well and now it seems to be installing OMV on it.
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I'm new to this forum and I couldn't find much about this device anymore! I got it through Kickstarter, like most people I assume, but mine got obsolete since we've had an Android box for streaming movies and series. But now I got the idea to convert this thing into a portable NAS unit if that is possible.
My device is on LibreELEC 8.0.2 at this moment and still has the CM1 module in it, the storage it holds is a WD Blue 500gb SSD. Since I'm expecting a Pi 5 8gb soon, I'm not feeling about upgrading it to CM3, the Pi 5 will be a NAS project as well.
Anybody that has an idea I can pull this off or perhaps did it themselves before?
