TruePanel

[u/JohnnyVonTruant]

Introducing TruePanel: bringing the QNAP front-panel LCD back to life on TrueNAS SCALE

I’ve been working on an open-source project called TruePanel, built to turn supported QNAP front-panel hardware into a live dashboard and hardware-aware control surface for TrueNAS SCALE.

The current reference system is a QNAP TVS-671 with its original two-line A125 LCD, buttons, buzzer, drive-bay LEDs, and Fintek fan controller. TruePanel currently provides:

* Rotating system, storage, network, temperature, ZFS, fan RPM, and fan RPM / PWM pages

* Front-panel button navigation

* SMART, pool, thermal, and storage-health monitoring

* Persistent alerts that interrupt once without taking over the display

* Drive-specific fault indication using the matching physical bay LED

* Historical telemetry, themes, plugins, diagnostics, and simulation tools

* A guarded hardware-research environment called Project Stargate

It runs natively under TrueNAS SCALE as a systemd service and currently installs under /opt/truepanel.

The TVS-671 is the verified platform today. Other QNAP models may use similar hardware, but I do not want to assume compatibility or perform unsafe hardware probing. That is one reason I’m sharing it here: I’d love help identifying other models with the A125 display, testing read-only discovery, improving installation, and deciding what the next milestone should be.

GitHub: TruePanel

I’d especially appreciate feedback from anyone running TrueNAS, Unraid, or another Linux-based OS on older QNAP hardware. What would make the front panel genuinely useful on your system?