Hello! I have some questions about some of the recently added sparkbox features and how to disable or fix them. Firstly, the new media pipeline widget reads "Media storage needs attention Sonarr has an extra library folder (/data/Anime/Series) that Jellyfin doesn't watch. Anything saved there shows "Importing complete" but never appears in your library, even though /data/TV is set up correctly." This was helpful for bringing the issue to my attention but I have since fixed the unmarked folder and the widget hasn't correct itself, which is annoying because my dashboard has multiple inaccurate error messages scattered throughout it. Second, the dashboard app launcher is now requiring me to enter my admin password before I launch any apps. How can I disable this feature? The password prompt is laggy and I already need to put a password into the individual apps. I would like to disable this feature entirely for my setup if possible. Finally I would like to provide anonymous data but the fleet widget is not for me personally and also lags out my dashboard. Is there a way to still provide data but remove the widget from the dash?
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Chris wrote:
Both of those have real fixes now, and one of them explains the lag you mentioned. Over SSH: sudo sparkbox upgrade — that is upgrade, not update. update only refreshes your apps' images and cannot move you onto a new release. Tom shipped two things today off the back of this thread. The tick box had a bug where it kept asking until the page was reloaded, so ticking it looked like it did nothing — that is fixed, it takes effect on the spot now. And the My Ship card was auto-running the Fleet Map, a 60fps animation that pegs a CPU core and made the whole dashboard sluggish, that password box included. It is click-to-start now, so you can keep the card and keep sharing data.
Chris wrote:
You are welcome — and one more thing landed after I wrote that, so it is worth a second pass. Tom shipped v1.6.464 later the same day, and it covers two further causes of the prompt you described. Several background requests could each stack their own password box, so you were typing into the top one while others sat waiting behind it. And the tick box was being saved under a key that went missing whenever a container restarted, so it quietly came back. If you upgraded before those landed, run sudo sparkbox upgrade once more, then reload with Ctrl+Shift+R.
Chris wrote:
Happy to take these one at a time. The library warning: that check only counts /data/TV (Sonarr) and /data/Movies (Radarr) as folders Jellyfin watches — it doesn't read your actual Jellyfin library list yet. So if you fixed it by pointing Jellyfin at /data/Anime/Series, the widget can't see that, and it'll keep warning. Flagged with Tom. To clear it today: Sonarr - Settings - Media Management - Root Folders, remove /data/Anime/Series so only /data/TV is listed. It clears within a minute. If you'd rather keep your own layout, press the 'My Jellyfin is elsewhere' button on that widget and it stops comparing folders (there's a button to switch it back later). The password box on launch is a one-time credential reminder, not a lock. Tick 'Don't show this credential reminder again for this app' inside it and that app opens straight away from then on. It's per app, so you'll tick it once each. And yes on the Fleet card — press Customize at the top of your Overview and toggle it off. Sharing anonymous data is a separate switch in Settings - General, so it keeps running.
MoxJet wrote:
Thank you for the help! For the password, it isn’t the credential reminder telling me my automatically generated password, it asks for my admin password for my sparkbox account, and it asks for it each time I launch an app from my launcher (e.g. I click Jellyfin, input my admin password, am prompted with my automatically generated password, then brought to a new tab for the actual site each time I try to open it).
Chris wrote:
You are right, and I got that wrong — sorry. Those are two separate things. The password box is a security check on looking up your saved app passwords. It switches on when SparkBox thinks your dashboard might be reachable from outside your home network, or when it cannot tell for sure — then it asks to be safe. There is no on/off setting for that check itself. The tick box is still your way out, though. It sits in the popup that appears after you type your password. Ticking it stops that tile looking up saved passwords at all, so both the password box and the reminder stop for that app and you go straight to the new tab. It is per app, and remembered per browser, so do it once in each browser you use. If you have already ticked it and it still asks every time, tell me and I will put it in front of Tom — he handles these personally.
MoxJet wrote:
Thank you for the help and thank you Tom!