I am trying (unsuccessfully so far) to install the Openclaw app on my Truenas Scale v25.04 home server.
The app goes through the installation process on Truenas. I am able to configure the Openclaw installation for remote access with the necessary authentication token. I can even launch the first page of the Openclaw dashboard web-ui.
But that is where I am stuck. For some reason I am unable to get the web-ui to be trusted by the Openclaw server. I have tried all the obvious things such as:
- ensuring the authentication tokens are correct in the server and the web-ui.
- making sure the Openclaw gateway is running with the correct authentication token.
- trying to check if I can use the command “openclaw devices list” to approve/trust my web-ui. No sucess as the server somehow does not show my web-ui instance …
I have gone so far as creating a VM on Truenas and installing Openclaw on it but am stuck in exactly the same place where the web—ui is not trusted by the Openclaw server …
Can anyone perhaps provide some insight or assistance?
I don’t know how is your TrueNAS Scale setup.
But mine run without SSL, so it is only http.
I install OpenClaw using the apps.
To access the OpenClaw Control Web UI, it use ws.
Just open terminal on the machine you try to access it.
I’m on mac, so this is my code.
bash
ssh -fN -L 30262:127.0.0.1:30262 truenas_admin@192.168.0.100
Then open: http://127.0.0.1:30262/
30262 is the port where the OpenClaw container running.
192.168.0.100 is the TrueNAS ip address.
127.0.0.1 is actually “localhost” but if you try local host it won’t work.
Thanks makoto_snkw.
I have not yet solved my probem because my Truenas setup is not completely standard. I have managed to work around the fact that i cannot access the openclaw webui on my Windows PC by enabling the Telegram channel on openclaw and interacting with it via the Telegram app on my phone and the Telegram webapp.
My advice (at this stage) to anyone experiencing problems with the openclaw app on Truenas Scale is to use ChatGPT as a guide to help you through the issues.
A further update. I decided to create a vm on Truenas scale using Ubuntu as the OS. I installed and configured openclaw “as standard as possible” from the information availble on youtube. So far so good. The added benefit is that the advice from makoto_snkw now worked perfectly to access the openclaw webui.
