Your SparkBox week — Sep 17
Posted by tomspark
Here's what shipped to every SparkBox this week — if your box is up to date, you already have all of it: • The dashboard no longer signs you out and says it cannot load your services after sparkbox update or sparkbox restart. The folder it keeps your session in was only prepared during sparkbox up, so any other restart could leave it owned by root and unwritable; it is now prepared on every path that recreates the containers. • Finish media setup: when the button is pressed from inside the dashboard container it now says plainly that the step has to run on the server and gives you the exact command (sudo /opt/sparkbox/sparkbox media-finish), instead of failing with "/app is not writable as the current user" or quietly creating folders nobody can see. The Moonfin toggle shows the same reason. • Tom AI: more of its help articles now explain, in plain language, what a past fix actually changed for you, instead of ending with a note that the resolution was not recorded. • Cloudflare Tunnel connector updated to 2026.9.1 (September security and stability fixes). No settings change; your tunnel reconnects on its own. • CoolerControl updated to 5.0: new interface, calibration wizard, security hardening. Fan curves, profiles and sensors carry over. If you used the "EMA" smoothing function type, it becomes plain Identity after the update; re-add smoothing as an EMA custom sensor. • Tom AI finds noticeably more of its own help articles, because it now matches the way customers actually phrase a problem, and seven new articles cover SABnzbd "name does not resolve", File Browser vs root-owned music folders, the orange "starting" icon, and more. • Tom AI outcome reporting: the dashboard now reports how a repair session ended on every step, not only when a fix ran, so our cost and success numbers are honest. • Moonfin (Jellyfin request button): the installer now picks the Jellyfin build of the plugin, not the Emby one, so Jellyfin 12 loads it; the toggle is marked experimental until Moonfin can show its button on Jellyfin 12 (use Seerr to request in the meantime). 📣 Shoutouts this week: could be you. Report what's broken and you might see your name in next week's thread. Got a bug or a feature idea? Post it right here in d/sparkbox and Tom's team reads it. P.S. Tell a friend about SparkBox: you earn $10 for every Legend sale you refer, and they get $10 off. Free to join: https://tomsparkbox.com/affiliate 📖 The full write-up, with pictures: https://tomsparkbox.com/guides/this-week-in-sparkbox-2026-09-19