“Migrating” from Citadel to Umbrel to StartOS after growing tired of having to fidget/fix/repair/fiddle after an upgrade or reboot (as my BTC node data is stored on a separate drive).
Unfortunately I couldn’t find Snowflake (TOR Relay Proxy) in either marketplace or having the energy to understand how to publish on the Community Marketplace, so I managed to build an .s9pk file that could be side loaded (wonderful StartOS feature).
If you do want to get it published on the Community Marketplace here is the guide for that - Publishing - Service Packaging which also details how you can host this on your own self-hosted registry if you’d like.
did you keep the NAT restricted ? i am running snowflake on my rasperry and worked around the NAT Type, i just used your libary to build also my own snowflake version for Start 9 great input… I checked the actual code that defines this package’s networking (startos/main.ts and startos/interfaces.ts, using StartOS SDK v1.5.3 — confirmed by inspecting the installed SDK’s type definitions directly). Two things:
The package currently only exposes one thing to the network: the web dashboard UI, bound via bindPort(80, {protocol: 'http'}) — that’s the table you screenshotted. The actual snowflake-proxy process itself has zero ports exposed to the LAN/WAN right now.
More fundamentally: StartOS’s packaging SDK (the MultiHost/bindPort interface system) is built entirely around TCP — HTTP, HTTPS, WS, raw TCP, SSH, DNS. I searched the whole SDK’s type definitions for any UDP-publishing capability and found none; the only UDP-related code is a health-check that reads /proc/net/udp to see if a port is already listening — nothing that forwards UDP traffic from outside.
ill let it run as a test for now to see the difference in connections between NAT restricted and unrestricted…
fair point let me see if i can update this and i hope its ok i forked yours actually you can download it already from the beta community and see if there is something you recommend to adapt I added a new dashboard into the package nothing to fancy though.
I was very happy you forked it (which is why I put it there in the first place) and I saw the fancy dashboard . It seems its not only available in the beta community (I think). I couldn’t be more happy. A gap needed filling. I tried my best. Pros made improvements and it ended up in the community marketplace. Open source at its’ best .
As not to "trick# anyone to rely on my initial build, I have removed the s9pk file and updated the release note pointing to the now proper channels.
Thats strange that you cant see it in the beta community, actually i dont recall if i had to first deinstall my sideload version or not, now that you mention it!
i hope to publish it this week, since i wanted to ensure the dashboard runs smoothly over 7 days at least, the community judges are out then!
I was probably unclear about “not only available in the beta community”. I got an update notification in StartOS that there was an update in the Community marketplace to (my side loaded) Snowflake, which I applied successfully. So it worked like a charm!
great input… I checked the actual code that defines this package’s networking (
. It seems its not only available in the beta community (I think). I couldn’t be more happy. A gap needed filling. I tried my best. Pros made improvements and it ended up in the community marketplace. Open source at its’ best 
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