# Snowflake for sideloading available **URL:** \ **Category:** DIY Community\ **Tags:** services, jam, diy\ **Created:** [July 19, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380 "2026-07-19T17:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/tfriberg/32/2203_2.png) [@tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/u/tfriberg)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/1 "2026-07-19T17:55:04Z")
“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](https://apps.umbrel.com/app/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). Should you want/need it, Snowflake available at [GitHub - tfriberg/snowflake-startos-sideloader: An attempt to make it possible to sideload Snowflake into StartOS · GitHub](https://github.com/tfriberg/snowflake-startos-sideloader) and have been confirmed working on StartOS v0.4.0-beta.9, runnning in a Proxmox VM installed from the official StartOS ISO. ![image](https://community.start9.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/72beda99daf8be806535c0332e8ebc3220f11102.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![OKIN](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/okin/32/262_2.png) [@OKIN](https://community.start9.com/u/OKIN)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/2 "2026-07-20T15:21:24Z")
Great work! If you do want to get it published on the Community Marketplace here is the guide for that - [Publishing - Service Packaging](https://docs.start9.com/packaging/0.4.0.x/publishing.html) which also details how you can host this on your own self-hosted registry if you’d like. ---
**Author:** ![ruxal](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/ruxal/32/451_2.png) [@ruxal](https://community.start9.com/u/ruxal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 4:54am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/3 "2026-09-09T04:54:00Z")
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: 1. 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. 2. 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… ---
**Author:** ![tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/tfriberg/32/2203_2.png) [@tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/u/tfriberg)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/4 "2026-09-22T05:36:20Z")
Good catches. I am not certain about neither 1 nor 2, but fortunately it was forked and cleaned up at [GitHub - alru78/snowflake-startos-sideloader: An attempt to make it possible to sideload Snowflake into StartOS · GitHub](https://github.com/alru78/snowflake-startos-sideloader/) and that repo made it all the way into [GitHub - Start9-Community/snowflake-startos-sideloader: An attempt to make it possible to sideload Snowflake into StartOS · GitHub](https://github.com/Start9-Community/snowflake-startos-sideloader) and can therefor be installed without sideloading. Only issue now is that the name is misleading ;). ---
**Author:** ![ruxal](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/ruxal/32/451_2.png) [@ruxal](https://community.start9.com/u/ruxal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/5 "2026-09-22T15:05:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/tfriberg/32/2203_2.png) [@tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/u/tfriberg)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/6 "2026-09-22T15:31:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ruxal](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/ruxal/32/451_2.png) [@ruxal](https://community.start9.com/u/ruxal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/7 "2026-09-22T16:02:30Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/tfriberg/32/2203_2.png) [@tfriberg](https://community.start9.com/u/tfriberg)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/8 "2026-09-22T17:52:27Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![ruxal](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/ruxal/32/451_2.png) [@ruxal](https://community.start9.com/u/ruxal)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/snowflake-for-sideloading-available/5380/9 "2026-09-23T18:14:40Z")
no worries thanks for letting me know… i have fiddled with the NAT around and i managed on Start9 to get it working towards unrestricted… yeah… ![image](https://community.start9.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/44ad9a178c228eafb45bec44305c8cd03e11aab4.jpeg)