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This is the knowledge base wiki for Amahi, the home server. Please add or edit any information in the Wiki that you feel is lacking, missing, or needs improvement.
Contents
- Introduction to the Amahi HDA
- System requirements
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Issues and feedback
Notes
- Current stable release: Amahi 6.1, Ubuntu 1204 LTS edition
- This wiki is being restructured to support Fedora and Ubuntu. There will be many things moving around over time to be more complete in support of both systems.
- Registration in this wiki is subject to manual approval due to spam considerations.
Installation
- Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS instructions
- Fedora 14 instructions
- Self-install: Unsupported
- Express CD: Headless (all-in-one)
- Amahi on a VM
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.
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.
- Change IP Address/Network Gateway/DHCP Server Range: Change IP address of your Amahi server, Network Gateway, and DHCP Server Range.
- Turning off DHCP Server: Shows how to turn off DHCP Server on your HDA.
Remote Access - Accessing your HDA from anywhere on the network
- VPN: outside your network.
- SSH (key-based) access to your HDA.
- VNC: inside your network (e.g. if your HDA is "headless").
Files Access - how to work with shares
Tutorials - contributed by user community
Doing More
- Apps Gallery: The repo of Amahi one-click apps (NOTE: Convenience fees may apply. Log into Amahi website to purchase).
- Calendars: How to use the calendar server in the HDA, including Outlook and iCal sync.
- Adding an HDA networked printer: Guide to set up print server on your HDA.
- Backups: Guides on backup and restore: Windows XP, Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8, 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!)
- Greyhole Log via Web Browser: Monitor the Greyhole via your browser.
- RAID guides for RAID 1 and RAID 5
- Automatic Database Backup: Automatically have your HDA database backed up daily.
- Monit Web Interface: Monitor and control status of your HDA services.
- Password protect Apps: Password protect web applications.
Troubleshooting
- Installation:
- Network
- Vista Networking Issue
- Shares
- VPN
- Data Recovery
- File system
Getting "Under the Hood"
- How to Create a new Theme
- Linux/HDA Commands: Common used command for linux and HDA.
- Creating web apps: how to make your own web apps, with your code or other's code
- Hosting web site: how to host your own web site on the web from your Amahi home server
- Changing DNS provider
- Configuring OpenDNS
- Using two HDAs on the same network
- Post Install Hardware Changes: Steps for changing hardware on your Amahi server (i.e. mother board, network card, etc).
Roadmap & Development
The core team ONLY supports Ubuntu and Fedora development at this time. All others are being supported by the user community. ACTIVE
- Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS: Current Stable Release
- Ubuntu 12.10: Not supported.
- Fedora 17: Development ongoing.
- Fedora 9, 10, 12, and 14: Maintenance support ONLY
INACTIVE
- Fedora 15 and 16: Not Supported
- CentOS 5 and 6: Development Halted.
- Scientific Linux 6.1: Development halted.
Contribute
- Translate Amahi to your language
- Create a Bug/Feature/Support ticket!
- Contribute by Packaging apps or Testing apps
- Amahi Wallpapers
- Amahi Banners
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!
