STATUS — what works, what's broken, what's next

Ready for the first real tester (Tester 2)? Yes. Tester 2 (a laptop) is off; nothing was sent to it.

Updated 2026-10-20 (day). Hub 0.162.0, agent 0.161.0 (you vouched it) and installer 1.35.0 are live, and a failed off-site restore now puts the app back exactly as it was (your D20 = A; controller 0.336.0 is the floor). This page is one screen again: older news moved to the history file (documentation/backlog/STATUS-HISTORY.md), and nothing was deleted. A long rehearsal on a fresh box runs today and tonight.

What works

A box installs from nothing with the public installer, links to the hub, and moves to the floor by itself (map A1, A3, A4).
65 catalog apps install, update one tested step at a time, and a failed update undoes itself (map B1, B3, B4, B6).
Backups: database dumps, a second-drive copy, an off-site copy and whole-box copies; restore tests run by themselves (map C1–C4, A17, A18).
A restore brings an app back with its data and its database password; a failed off-site restore puts the app back as it was (map C5, D6).
After a power cut the box starts by itself, cleans up a half-written backup, and Immich repairs broken photos (map C10, F12).
A second drive is offered as the backup target; media apps see every drive; a one-disk box gets its own data area (map D1, D13, D15).
The three test boxes answer only over https; the hub's key opens nothing on a box; password guesses are counted (map E12, E13, E17).
The hub mails alarms and recoveries, and keeps one whole-box copy per week on ep0; CC uses its own limited token, not your password (map F1, F11, G15).

What is broken

P1 (the data-loss hunt, 2026-10-20 — still running): shared folders on two drives lose their second copy every night, and a dead drive's copy is deleted the same night (R-1175); a box rebuilt after „delete the old host" cannot reach the household's off-site history (R-1176); importing an app bundle makes a family-only app public (R-1191); on the 8 GB minimum box the family's first afternoon froze the box for an hour, twice; the household was told nothing (R-1192, R-1193).
P1: about 12 homelab logins still use a password that was public, and the public Gitea repo is not decided (R-925, yours).
Two root-level weaknesses wait on your decisions D3 and D4 (R-985, R-982).
Tester 2 is off since 2026-10-04: old emergency password, no off-site check, no bootstrap (R-1139, R-1104, R-862).
DooPlex: the failed disk is still in the box, its alarms silenced (R-934); something sets the shared checkout to „bare" (R-935).
The scratch box cannot use agent features (R-1083) or read the drill catalog (R-992).

What we work on

Dated checks, run by CC. 2026-10-21: the hub's own off-site check (R-895), the weekly clean-up window (R-435), downloads out of the second-drive copy (R-1019). 2026-10-23: no app stop when the host is busy (R-1173).
A gate keeps this page short and true: it warns now and refuses from 2026-10-27 (R-1174). CC.

Waiting on you — decide

Newest first. CC's pick is in the „Pick" column. Each row also has its full text in the register.

#	Row	Question	Pick (why)	The other option costs	If you do nothing	Blocked
D23	R-1181	A missing app folder deletes its second-drive copy within one night. Keep the old copy until the household lets it go?	Yes, keep it (a deleted folder is the reason a backup exists; audiobooks, comics and ROMs have no other copy)	Keep as now: a deleted folder is gone from every local copy by the next morning	an accidental folder delete is unrecoverable after one night	—
D22	R-1177	A LOCAL restore that fails destroys the live data and keeps no copy. Give it the off-site restore's „put back exactly" (your D20)?	Yes (proven live today: a failed restore left the app dead and the newest data gone)	No: a failed local restore can lose the household's newest data	the main restore button can lose data when a backup copy is damaged	—
D21	R-49	Immich's off-site copy: leave out only the AI model files now (B), or also the raw database folder and Immich's own backups (A)?	B now (−62 %, no new risk); A's other parts after their proof	A: −92 %, but it needs a restore path we have never run	every Immich box sends about 12 times its real data off-site each night	—
D9	R-1062	Split the N100's USB drive in two, for multi-drive tests?	No — keep one drive (the lived-in box keeps its nightly whole-box backup)	Split: the box loses its local whole-box backup, or you buy a second drive first	it stays one drive; multi-drive tests stay on Tester 1	—
D8	R-206	Install DooPlex's Docker settings from git (Docker restarts once), with a weekly build-cache prune?	Yes, in a quiet window (a rebuilt DooPlex then keeps the settings)	No: the live settings stay hand-made, and a rebuild loses them	git and the host can drift apart	—
D7	R-990, R-989	Rule on the forum ideas and the selfh.st ideas now, or park them?	Park them (P4; nothing waits on them)	Rule now: about one hour of reading	nothing changes; the research gets old	—
D6	R-992	The scratch box cannot read the private drill catalog: give it a read-only login, or make that copy public?	A read-only login (the drill catalog stays private)	Public copy: anyone can read the drill catalog	every new-app test needs staging by hand	new-app tests
D5	R-991	Approve the minimum machine: x86-64, 4 cores, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD (recommended: 16 GB, 512 GB)?	Approve (measured on the N100 with 61 apps) — but wait for R-1192: an 8 GB box froze on its first afternoon, 2026-10-20	Change it: one edit	no hardware page; a buyer with a Raspberry Pi can still download the installer	the hardware page
D4	R-982	Stop root SSH with a password from the household network (key only)?	Yes — key only (the password stays for the console)	Keep it: anyone on the household network can try the password	the host keeps accepting root password logins from the LAN	—
D3	R-985	Our „zero-knowledge" wording is stronger than the product: change the wording, or remove the operator's root reach to the key?	Change the wording now; look again after the first sale	Remove the reach: a design change to break-glass	the website promises more than the product does	the website text

Waiting on you — do

Still needed? (yes/no) — CC could not check these. Answer yes or no per line.

Look at roms/roms/ on the N100's drive in the file manager (R-1099). Since 2026-10-16.
The N100 sheet, about 30 minutes: Plex, the admins in Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr, your download sources (documentation/audits/n100-lived-in-2026-10-15/SHEET.md). Since 2026-10-15.
Look at these pages on demo-hp when you have time: Calibre-Web („Adatok és mentés"), the file manager, AdventureLog, Plex, the app page, the Plex and Sonarr guides („Útmutató"). Since 2026-10-16. Today's rehearsal screenshots: documentation/audits/rehearsal-2026-10-20/screens/.
Remove the test server „plex-k6" from your Plex account (plex.tv → Settings → Authorized Devices). Since 2026-10-15.
Ask Google to index https://felhom.eu/sajat-felho-tarhely in Search Console (R-1035). Since 2026-10-14.
BIOS: on the N100, read „After Power Loss"; on the HP, set „Bypass F1 Prompt on Configuration Changes" to Enable. Since 2026-10-14.
Pin the first Facebook post (R-917), and look at the new cover in the Facebook phone app (R-919). Since 2026-10-12.

Morning list, 2026-10-20 (from the night session, part 2). Item 1 (vouch agent 0.161.0) is done. Item 2 is D21 above.

MeTube's downloaded videos are now out of the second-drive copy, like the torrent and usenet downloads. If you want them kept, say so. If not: nothing to do.
The update test for more apps needs your word: start the test bench (guest 9401 on demo-hp) and let CC commit to the drill catalog (R-462). Five apps wait for a tested step. If not: they stay on their tested version, which is safe.

The rest

Pull the failed disk Z6A07P2G out of DooPlex (R-934); it is still in. If not: its alarms return on 11 November. Since 2026-10-12.
Rotate the reused homelab logins and decide the Gitea repo's visibility (R-925, P1). Since 2026-10-09.
Two leftovers on DooPlex: keep, commit or delete the Facebook first-post/ folder in /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/leftovers/2026-10-14/; commit or drop the deny-list edit in ~/git/homelab-manifests/.claude/settings.json. If not: they stay. Since 2026-10-14.
Before the first paying customer: Tandoor's permission (R-789); a lawyer for the licence list and the terms (R-802, R-813); SparkyFitness by e-mail (R-784); print the break-glass sheet and the signing keys (R-923, R-924).
System poster needs a refresh: one-disk boxes have a data area on the system disk (2026-10-16); every public name answers only over https (2026-10-14).
Later (yours, not urgent): R-862 (Tester 2's bootstrap, when it is back), R-504, R-1071, R-1073, R-1077, R-1042, R-132, R-908, R-779, R-904, R-232, R-433, R-933, R-213, R-832, R-388, R-882, R-883, R-814, R-1056, R-1164, R-930, R-920, R-902.

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