Your SparkBox week — Oct 22
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: • Emby is ready to use right after install. Your Emby password is in Settings → Service Passwords. • Emby now shows as healthy on the dashboard: its health check was asking Emby for a page it does not have. • The Emby guide and Tom AI's answers now say where your Emby password is. • sudo sparkbox doctor runs all of its checks again on boxes where SparkBox made the Navidrome or Audiobookshelf login: since 1.7.2 it stopped part-way through. • After you install Plex, the window to link it to your Plex account now stays on top instead of being covered by the 'installed and running' window. • Tom AI: when your VPN stopped because one of its saved settings is wrong, Tom now tells you which setting and how to fix it, instead of restarting your download apps for nothing. • Tom AI: when it hands a problem to the support team, the report now includes the checks and fixes it already tried earlier in the same chat. • VPN: if you use Surfshark through its own WireGuard file (Other / Custom), SparkBox now turns off encrypted DNS for you the way it already did for Surfshark picked from the list — Surfshark blocks it inside the tunnel — and the checkup names it first. 📣 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/blog/this-week-in-sparkbox-2026-10-19 Previous weeks: This week in SparkBox: Oct 6 – Oct 12, 2026 — https://tomsparkbox.com/blog/this-week-in-sparkbox-2026-10-12 · This week in SparkBox: Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2026 — https://tomsparkbox.com/blog/this-week-in-sparkbox-2026-10-05 · This week in SparkBox: Sep 22 – Sep 28, 2026 — https://tomsparkbox.com/blog/this-week-in-sparkbox-2026-09-28 · This week in SparkBox: Sep 15 – Sep 21, 2026 — https://tomsparkbox.com/blog/this-week-in-sparkbox-2026-09-21