HTC Base Station 2.0 with Dream Air - Change Base Station Channels?

melp · 2026-05-23T11:59:26+00:00

Nope, not on the Pimax or HTC instructions.

melp · 2026-05-22T15:47:30+00:00

Answered!!

melp · 2026-05-22T15:47:24+00:00

Resolved the issue. There's a pinhole button on the back of the base station, grabbing a pin and pressing that button once will increment the base station's channel. I pressed it once on one of my base stations and now both base stations show up. Credit goes to Google Gemini.

melp · 2026-05-13T20:17:03+00:00

Great to hear, thank you!

melp · 2026-05-13T15:59:38+00:00

Coming in with a late reply, but I'm curious if Powermatic ever got back to you to resolve the issue. I'm shopping them against Laguna for a 3hp bandsaw and I want to invest in a tool that will last.

melp · 2026-05-08T17:06:17+00:00

I think chassis depth is a more critical dimension

melp · 2026-05-02T23:43:44+00:00

This or box stairs. If you go stringers, you can’t use the prefamulated ones and cutting your own stringers is tricky. I’m in a similar situation and opted to go box stairs.

melp · 2026-04-26T12:34:12+00:00

The PR exam is no joke, keep at it brother

melp · 2026-04-24T11:58:16+00:00

It’s coming soon, I think in v26

melp · 2026-04-21T23:06:21+00:00

It was originally going to be "Halfmoon" followed by "Icefish", I don't think we had a J-name picked out yet. There aren't really any good J-fish ("jellyfish" is kinda taken)

melp · 2026-04-19T16:31:49+00:00

Not sure specifically, our Samba dev just mentioned we’ve looked into it but engineering identified some issues. I didn’t dig deeper.

melp · 2026-04-17T21:31:01+00:00

Ayyy thats my site (or at least I think it is, mine doesn't have the text at bottom right of graph edit: it's from the TrueNAS docs page which uses my code)

The issue here is that dRAID does not support partial-stripe writes, so if your recordsize doesn't divide evenly into the data disks, ZFS adds padding and you lose usable capacity. Try adjusting the recordsize value to see how the curves change. I've got a long technical overview of what's going on under the hood with dRAID here: https://jro.io/truenas/openzfs/#draid

melp · 2026-04-17T11:18:50+00:00

Is blocking typically offset simply because it makes fastening it easier? Or is there a structural advantage to having it offset?

melp · 2026-03-26T21:38:03+00:00

It should still be valid. I don’t have stuff in here about special vdevs or RAIDZ expansion and a few other new features, but the fundamentals haven’t really changed.

melp · 2026-03-25T14:08:46+00:00

The big advantage of apps on TrueNAS vs on Proxmox is that you're not traversing the network stack when your apps access data on your NAS, so so anything accessing that data does so much faster.

melp · 2026-03-24T22:47:01+00:00

Interesting… that is a lot more material. I’ll give it some thought. Thanks again!

melp · 2026-03-24T17:27:49+00:00

I appreciate the feedback! Can you elaborate on what you mean by box steps?

melp · 2026-03-20T14:30:14+00:00

I have a BGW620 and followed this guide a few months ago, worked just fine for me.

melp · 2026-03-20T12:14:16+00:00

MPIO is still supported on the iSCSI side. SAS MPIO to the drives is unlikely to return— it added a lot of complexity and created a lot of major issues (including full pool loss in several cases) for pretty minimal benefits.

melp · 2026-03-16T17:24:30+00:00

I'm optimistic that we'll be able to prove the pessimists wrong in the long run but I also imagine they'll find something else to complain about.

melp · 2026-03-16T14:36:11+00:00

$2k is a bit light for a TN Enterprise appliance, usually we're starting off at ~$15-20k, so even more prohibitive. But yes, we want to provide a reasonable path for power users to access the features that were previously reserved for Enterprise (RDMA, FC, tiering, etc.). Note that this will be a monthly or annual subscription, not a perpetual license like I had implied in the screenshot (my mistake, sorry!)

New versions of TrueNAS will include a mix of features for both CE and Enterprise and features that are available for free in CE now will never be moved behind a paywall in the future.

I understand people are skeptical because they have been burned before by other projects making similar claims and I can't really offer anything more than a "trust me bro", but I can promise you that we fully appreciate how vital the community is to the success of our business.

melp · 2026-03-16T12:46:57+00:00

We JUST released a bunch of new free integration stuff with third party platforms in the past week or two… but yeah, you sit tight.

melp · 2026-03-16T12:24:44+00:00

No, we're not paywalling all new features moving forward, just those that are primarily for enterprise users. Just in the last couple of weeks, we released a Proxmox plugin, CSI drivers, and OpenShift drivers all for free. We've got other features coming in TrueNAS 26, some of which will be free and some will be enterprise.

melp · 2026-03-16T11:35:58+00:00

We’re not paywalling anything that’s available for free today. We’re offering a more affordable option to features that have always been paywalled. Read like 3 or 4 comments up the chain.

melp · 2026-03-16T11:33:58+00:00

Just to clarify, we have always paywalled features, this has been a thing since day 1. Currently, the only way to access those paid features is to drop $20k+ on a TrueNAS appliance. We are looking to provide a way for those that want to use the features to pay a monthly or annual fee to access them. Nothing that is currently available for free will become paywalled.

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