New pi node operator

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@5304Pants

Never used a pi before but they are quite cool for what they are.

Agreed

@5304Pants

If the disk dies and I had to replace it would it not use the identity and then retrieve and repair?

That’s not how it works unfortunately. If you lose your disk, your node would quickly get disqualified because it could not provide the data it is supposed to be holding.
The Storj network does not support repairing failing nodes, for a lot of reasons I’m not gonna detail here (you can search the forum if you’re curious) but in short: that would be very difficult and expensive for the network to allow nodes to get repaired on demand in a trustless context (iirc).

@5304Pants

I can’t access the dashboard remotely, only from the device. I enabled SSH, have forwarded the ports in the router and added -p 28967:28967 to the docker run. Can access it locally using 127.0.0.1:14002

You shoudn’t expose the dashboard publicly anyway.
FYI: 28967 is the technical port used by satellites and customers for sending/receiving data. 14002 is the web dashboard port.

Here is the official way to expose the dashboard:

How to remote access the web dashboard - Storj Docs

And here are some other approaches you might want to check out:

Secure dashboard (HTTPS and password ?)

Would there be a way to make the dashboard exposable to the Internet, without having to go through the trouble of setting up an SSH tunnel like described in: ? I mean could the dashboard implement some sort of security by itself, so we can expose it to the Internet and access it by using a password or something? I see the matter has been discussed already, but the answer is usually to use an SSH tunnel or to install a reverse proxy in front of the node, as described here for instance: But …