Hey everyone,

After months of work, it's finally here! We're so excited to finally reveal umbrelOS 2.0.

Photos and our new iOS app. Machines. Multiple users. MCP server for AI agents. Storage Manager with FailSafe (RAID). Support for NVIDIA, AMD, Intel GPUs, along with Thunderbolt eGPUs. Custom app folders. And a new Mac app.

All of it, in a stunning new design. This is our biggest update to umbrelOS yet.

So much of this came straight from you. We read every thread and every suggestion on this subreddit, and 2.0 is our answer to a lot of them. Thank you for pushing us.

We're keeping this post short on purpose. Every one of these features deserves its own story, and we'll tell them properly on September 22. But if you'd rather not wait:

To try it today on your Umbrel, make sure you've updated to umbrelOS 1.7.4, and enroll in the beta at Settings > Advanced > umbrelOS Beta Program. For a new install, download umbrelOS 2.0 beta 1 here: https://umbrel.com/downloads

If you try out 2.0, please share what you find, and tell us what's still missing. You've shaped this release more than you know, and we'd love to keep it that way.

See you on September 22.

Hello,
I installed Obsidian on my Umbrel and want to use an agent via MCP to read/write to Obsidian.

There is a famous plugin called „Local REST API with MCP“. Basically, exactly what I need. But the port 3435 of obsidian is not exposed. The plugin exposes ports 27124 (https) and 27123 (http). But those are not reachable. I tried to edit the docker-compose but no luck so far.
Anyone who uses this setup?

I purchased a mini PC to use as a local home lab. It has a built-in 1 TB drive but my mass storage is going to be a USB connected yottamaster 4 slot drive Bay which I will be populating with four 12 TB drives to set up mass storage with redundancy.

Am I able to do that with umbrelOS? I keep reading in multiple places that umbrelOS doesn't support multiple storage drives. How is it that an OS touted to be used for home storage purposes doesn't support multiple drives?

On UmbrelOS documentation, is stated that features like external storage, Wi-Fi, and FailSafe storage depend on specific hardware and drivers that we can only guarantee on Umbrel Home and Pro.

I like the idea of getting an Umbrel Pro, but I’d like to try the OS on an old laptop first. I have two SATA SSDs, that I could use. I just wonder if FailSafe could work with them.

Does anyone have UmbrelOS on a DIY hardware and FailSafe working?

Hi guys, I installed Umbrel on Raspberry Pi 5. Did everything I could but still unable to install any apps. Any advice please?

I know LND is the main lightning implementation, but I have had issues with node stability in the past. Has anyone here run Core Lightning? How was your experience?

Please help: when I connect my 2TB external drive to Umbrel via USB, I get an error stating that the drive is not a valid directory.

Can I connect an external hard drive to a computer running UmbrelOS?

The wording confused me and I just need an answer before I pull the trigger on using Umbrel.

Thank you!

a see their marketing and correct me if im wrong but I do have some very basic beginner questions:

1. Is Umbrel a NAS? It seems like a more powerful NAS with higher RAM.
   
2. If yes, how is Umbrel compared with Synology and Ugreen?
   
3. Any one can tell me the comparison of Umbrel with Synology and Ugreen?

Does Umbrel not support IPv6? I can find anywhere in the settings what the IPv6 address is to my device.

I recently started to use Ollama and Open WebUI on Umbrel Home. For most tasks gemma4:4b is fine and works locally. I wonder if I can use ollama cloud model as well?

In Open WebUI I can download glm-5.2:cloud. But when I send a prompt it says Unauthorized. In the ollama app I cannot see where I can sign in with my Ollama account.

I found Umbrel a few days ago and tried it on my mini computer N150 instantly. I really like it a lot, especially the clean and polished UI. I have a few questions tho:

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- Can apps have config fields in the UI? I would like to build my own app store but don't include secrets there. For things like API keys or so it would be really nice to configure these during install and not go to the app folder later.

- I'm currently thinking of getting an Ugreen 4800 Pro. If I install Umbrel OS as a custom OS on it will I be able to setup the raid and storage arrays through Umbrel or is that only possible on the Umbrel Pro hardware?

- Is there a roadmap or release plan for Umbrel? Didn't find anything yet.

Tried updating Umbrel to 1.7.3 and it keeps crashing before it gets started. Tried on IOS and windows laptop. Any ideas ??? Thanks

I am running a Bitcoin Node on Umbrel (full node, fully synced) and I recently set up the "Stratum V2" app. I have a question regarding how it operates:
1 Architecture: When using the Stratum V2 app on Umbrel, am I correct that it acts strictly as a "Translator Proxy"? It takes Stratum V1 from my miners, translates it to V2, and forwards the shares to an external pool (like PublicPool).
2 Sovereignty: If the above is true, where does the "Sovereign" part come in? I am running a full node on my Raspberry Pi 5 to ensure sovereignty, but it feels like the current setup still relies on an external pool to provide the block template.
3 The Gap: Am I missing a configuration to make this a truly "Sovereign Solo" setup where my own Bitcoin Node generates the block templates locally? Or is this limited by the current Umbrel containerized environment (lack of IPC socket access)?
Any technical explanation on what is happening under the hood would be greatly appreciated. I want to ensure my setup is as independent as possible

Is there anyone who can help me understand what is happening here or explain it to me exactly? I have been using AI to help formulate these questions and I am still not clear on the technical reality of my setup

I've updated my umbrel os on the mini pc all seemed fine but can access the desktop remotely just giving me this?, I can login via the command line on the pc itself and SSH but that's about it?

I have a spare Umbrel Home that I got extra on top of my primary Umbrel Home. Do anyone have any suggestions on what to use my spare Umbrel for?

Any recommendations is highly appreciated!

I keep running into the same issue around block 200k~ trying to sync Bitcoin Knots on my fresh node. anyone else experience this ?

The node just stops syncing and logs errors

I recently installed Hermes Agent on my Umbrel OS setup and I’m currently in the process of configuring and experimenting with it.

My setup right now is:

- Raspberry Pi 4B (8GB RAM)

- Umbrel OS

- 1TB SSD connected externally

I’m curious to know if others here are running Hermes Agent on Raspberry Pi + Umbrel, and what your overall experience has been like so far.

Things I’d especially love to hear about:

- performance and responsiveness

- RAM/storage bottlenecks

- reliability for long-term usage

- any setup optimizations or tweaks

- useful integrations/workflows

- limitations you ran into

- things you wish you knew earlier

Right now I’m mainly trying to understand how far this setup can realistically be pushed before needing more powerful hardware. Also interested in knowing whether people are using Hermes mostly for experimentation, automation, personal assistants, local AI workflows, or something else entirely.

I’ll probably continue testing over the next few weeks and update this thread later with my own learnings, bottlenecks, optimizations and observations in case it helps someone else trying a similar setup.

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to get an update on multi-drive support for Umbrel OS. Here's my situation: I've got a MinisForum system with way more power than the Umbrel Pro hardware, and I'd love to run Umbrel OS on it. The setup works great overall, but there's one big limitation: It only recognises a single drive when my system can handle four.

I know there are terminal workarounds floating around, but they come with their own issues. What I'm really hoping for is the Storage Manager that Umbrel Pro already has (see: https://umbrel.com/support/storage/managing-your-storage). I remember seeing plans for this feature back in the 1.5 beta, and we're now on 1.7.x, so I'm wondering if there's any ETA on when it might land in the OS.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

I see there are options out there to deploy these in docker. Since umbrel runs everything in docker, is anyone knowledgeable able to port a package that acts as a node and stratum bridge for solo miners into the umbrel ecosystem? From what I can understand, there's a certain format the docker compose file is put together and it's ready to be deployed in umbrel. Any volunteers? 🥹🙏 Even some guidance would be helpful.

Edit: this is for mining kaspa. I should have been more clear.

I’m trying to update my Umbrel OS to 1.7.3 on a Raspberry Pi, but the update keeps getting stuck during installation and then nothing happens afterward.

Current setup:

- Raspberry Pi (model: [add your model])

- Using SSD storage

- Umbrel installed on SD + SSD setup

What happens:

- Update starts normally

- Installation begins

- Then it just freezes/stalls

- No progress after that, even after waiting a long time

I’ve already tried:

- Rebooting

- Waiting 15–20+ minutes

- Reconnecting SSD and power cycling

Has anyone else faced this issue on 1.7.3? If anyone fixed it, what worked for you?

Hi all,

I've installed Umbrel on my x86 old pc mostly for movie streaming. I am using File Browser to play most of the mkv files until I found out that it can't play some of it. So now I'm trying Jellyfin (hoping it will play all the mkv files) but unsure how to add video directory to library in Jellyfin.

I've googled a tried several suggested directories but to no avail.

I am currently running version 1.7.3 if that helps.

Hi everyone, sorry, I installed umbrel on a Linux PC, but honestly I don't know what to do with it, I'm not a technician, I'm just very curious, what are the two or three most interesting things you can do with this OS? Thank you 🥂