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

Ready for the first real tester (Tester 2)? No — one step left: release the agent with the swap fix (decide D26); the 8 GB box can still freeze under big uploads until then. Tester 2 (a laptop) is off; nothing was sent to it.

Updated 2026-10-21 (evening). A rebuilt box now gets the household's off-site backups back (hub 0.163.0, proven live: 3 031 files byte-identical), and shared folders, imported apps and away drives keep their copies and locks (controller 0.337.0, the floor). The 8 GB freeze is explained — the guest's swap was capped at 512 MB — and the agent fix is ready but not released. Report: REPORT-fixes-2026-10-21.md.

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 8 GB box can freeze for minutes under big uploads until the agent with the swap fix is released (R-1192; cause measured, fix proven by hand for 2 hours).
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 done: the hub's own off-site check found nothing wrong (R-895); downloads stay out of the second-drive copy (closed). 2026-10-23: no app stop when the host is busy (R-1173). 2026-10-26: each hub daily job ran once on the clock-change day (R-1183). 2026-10-27: the weekly clean-up window (R-435; the logs of the last one were lost to restarts).
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
D26	R-1192	Release agent 0.162.0 with the swap fix (every guest may swap as much as its RAM), and vouch it?	Yes, tomorrow morning (measured: the freeze ended within a minute of the change; 2 hours of the same uploads stayed answering)	Wait: a household's 8 GB box can freeze for minutes, up to an hour, under its first uploads	Tester 2 stays „not ready"; the controller already warns honestly	Tester 2
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, 2026-10-21 (fix day). No decision was taken by CC.

D26: the agent release with the swap fix. Also new: after a box death with a failed second install, the whole-box backup waits for your „Re-issue PBS credentials" press (R-1205).
Secrets: keep or remove the REHEARSAL_2026_10_20_* and FIXES_2026_10_21_* names in sec (the bind, pairing and setup codes are spent; the root password belongs to a deleted box).

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).
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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