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CURRENT STABLE RELEASE: Amahi 6.1, on Fedora 14
NOTE: Fedora 16 DEVELOPMENT for Amahi has begun. No estimated release date.
Contents
This is where Amahi community members can best help other Amahi users. Please add or edit any information in the Wiki that you feel is lacking, missing, or need improvement.
- Intro: Introduction to the Amahi HDA
- Requirements: What's needed
- FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
- Feedback: Issues, feedback.
For questions or help do not hesitate to contact us.
Installation
- See Installation instructions in your control panel at amahi.org
- Self-install: Alternative, unsupported installation instructions
- Amahi on a VM: Installing Amahi in a Virtual Machine
- Express CD: Headless all-in-one Install
Getting Started
First you can take a look at the Popular Pages to see if your topic of interest is there. Otherwise find the major topics below in groups.
Storage and file sharing - How to store your music, pictures, movies and other files and share them with the rest of the devices in your network.
- Accessing files from:
Networking - Using your HDA to manage your home network
- Networking - Static IPs: How to assign static IPs to your network devices.
- Punching DNS Holes: How to assign IP addresses outside of your network for your home domain.
- Access HDA over SSL: How to make your HDA default to HTTPS for secure LAN logins.
- Access Web Apps over SSL: How to make your web apps default to HTTPS for secure LAN access.
- Password Protect Web Apps: How to password protect access to web apps.
- Firewall: iptables
Remote Access - Accessing your HDA from anywhere on the network
- Accessing your HDA remotely from:
- FreeNX: Accessing your HDA with FreeNX
- SSH based access to your HDA: Key-Based SSH Logins
Troubleshooting
Doing More
- Apps Directory: These are the help pages for some of the apps in the Apps Gallery
- Adding an HDA networked printer: Guide to set up print server on your HDA.
- Backups: Guides on backup and restore: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Ubuntu Linux, and MacOSX.
- Adding a second hard drive to your HDA: How to add a additional hard drives.
- Greyhole: Add drive pooling to your HDA (ie Turn multiple drives into one!)
- RAID guides for RAID 1 and RAID 5
- Add DropBox service: Allows a HDA DropBox share folder to automatically synchronize with a DropBox account.
- Automatic Database Backup: Automatically have your HDA database backed up daily.
- Enable Outgoing Mail: Use your ISP to send mail from your HDA.
- Monitor System Logs via E-mail: Sends logs to designated e-mail address daily.
- Send Outgoing Emails via Gmail: Use your Gmail account to send mail from your HDA.
- Disk Error Alerts: Monitor disk drive wellness and receive email alerts if errors are detected.
- Greyhole Log via Web Browser: Monitor the Greyhole via your browser.
Using Applications
For a more detailed list refer to the Apps Directory
- Remote File Management using AjaxPlorer
- Calendars: How to use the calendar server in the HDA, including Outlook and iCal sync.
- Dashboard: Using the amahi Dashboard
Getting "Under the Hood"
- How to Create a new Theme
- Linux/HDA Commands: Common used command for linux and HDA.
- Making your own web apps: how to make your own web apps, with your code or other's code
- Hosting your own web site: how to host your own web site on the web from your Amahi home server
- Changing your DNS provider
- Configuring OpenDNS
- Use two HDAs on same network
- Using Tonido
Contribute
- Translate Amahi to your language
- Create a Bug/Feature/Support ticket!
- Contribute by:
Roadmap & Development
- Fedora 14: Current Stable Release
- Fedora 15: Not Supported
- Fedora 16: Early development
- Ubuntu: Limited Development
- CentOS: Development Stalled
- Scientific Linux 6.1: Early Development
Related Links
- Developers: How to write HDA apps, questions, API suggestions, etc.
- Credits: How are we doing all this? We have many OSS projects to thank!
