Fix stale plugin docs and dead links

- unraid_api.php comment still told you to run Deployment/deploy.sh,
  deleted a while back
- VaraverkSettings.page linked to a CHANGELOG.md that doesn't exist
  anywhere in the repo
- Manual-Plugin.md / README-Plugin.md described manually heredoc-ing the
  .plg locally and a .txz-based install that isn't wired up — rewritten
  to describe the actual install flow (raw .plg URL via Plugins ->
  Install Plugin), with plugin_setup.sh's dev-symlink role called out
  separately from that install path

Plugin/Manual-Plugin.md

@@ -9,26 +9,20 @@ For folder overview see `README-Plugin.md`. For web app logic see the headers in
 
 ## ━━━ FIRST-TIME INSTALL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
-### Prerequisites
+Not yet published to Community Applications — this is a niche, self-hosted install for now.
 
-- Repo cloned onto the target Unraid server
+### Install via the Unraid UI (the actual install path)
-- `/boot/config/plugins/varaverk/varaverk.plg` exists on flash (see PLG SETUP below)
 
-### Steps
+**Plugins → Install Plugin → Enter URL of remote plugin file**, paste the raw `.plg` URL:
 
-```bash
+- Your own servers (Gitea): `https://git.gmer4lfe.com/FailedProxy/Varaverk/raw/branch/main/Plugin/varaverk.plg`
-cd Plugin/
+- Public/anyone else (GitHub): `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FailedProxy/Varaverk/main/Plugin/varaverk.plg`
-./plugin_setup.sh
-```
 
-This creates:
+Unraid downloads the `.plg`, saves it to `/boot/config/plugins/varaverk.plg` itself
-
+(nothing to copy by hand), then runs its `<FILE>` steps: clones the repo onto flash
-```
+(Gitea → Tailscale peer → `GITEA_DOMAIN` → GitHub fallback chain — same install script
-/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/varaverk  →  Plugin/unraid/   (symlink)
+either way, so both URLs above end up in the same place), then symlinks the web files.
-```
+See `varaverk.plg`'s inline comments for the exact clone/fallback logic.
-
-Changes to any file under `Plugin/unraid/` take effect immediately in the browser —
-no restart, no reinstall.
 
 ### Verify
 
@@ -42,25 +36,13 @@ Go to **Settings → Other Settings** — a Varaverk tile should also appear the
 The `.plg` file registers Varaverk with Unraid's plugin system. It enables the cron
 mechanism (`update_cron`) and makes the plugin appear on the **Plugins** management page.
 
-Create it once on flash — it persists across reboots:
+`Plugin/varaverk.plg` is tracked in the repo — it's a real plugin descriptor (version,
+GitHub links, changelog) maintained by `build.sh`, not hand-authored. Normally you never
+touch flash directly — installing via the URL above (or the update button on the Plugins
+page, once installed) handles placing/refreshing `/boot/config/plugins/varaverk.plg` for you.
 
-```bash
+`plugin_setup.sh` is a separate, optional dev convenience — see below — not part of the
-mkdir -p /boot/config/plugins/varaverk
+install path above.
-
-cat > /boot/config/plugins/varaverk.plg <<'EOF'
-<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
-<!DOCTYPE PLUGIN [
-<!ENTITY name    "varaverk">
-<!ENTITY author  "gmer4lfe">
-<!ENTITY version "2026.05.28">
-]>
-<PLUGIN name="&name;" author="&author;" version="&version;" launch="varaverk/monitor" icon="/plugins/varaverk/icons/varaverk.png">
-</PLUGIN>
-EOF
-```
-
-The `.plg` has no packages and no remote URLs — it is local-only and is not published
-to Community Applications.
 
 **Cron flow on every boot:**
 1. `event/disks_mounted/rebuild_cron` fires
@@ -71,6 +53,24 @@ to Community Applications.
 
 ---
 
+## ━━━ DEV CONVENIENCE: plugin_setup.sh ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Not part of the install path above — a manual, optional tool for pointing the running
+web server directly at an arbitrary repo clone (e.g. a dev checkout that isn't at
+`/boot/config/plugins/varaverk`), bypassing the fixed-path symlink the `.plg` recreates
+every boot.
+
+```bash
+cd Plugin/
+./plugin_setup.sh
+```
+
+This creates `/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/varaverk → Plugin/unraid/` (or `Plugin/<os>/`
+for other platforms) pointing at wherever this repo currently lives, so edits show up
+in the browser instantly. Re-run it any time the repo moves — see REPO MOVE PROCEDURE below.
+
+---
+
 ## ━━━ SCRIPTS DIRECTORY SETTING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
 `SCRIPTS_DIR` tells the plugin where to find the Configurations directory and all
@@ -104,25 +104,34 @@ CUSTOM_SCRIPTS_DIR="/boot/config/plugins/user.scripts/Varaverk/Scripts"
 
 ## ━━━ REPO MOVE PROCEDURE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
-If the repo is cloned to a new path:
+If a dev checkout using `plugin_setup.sh` (see above) is moved to a new path:
 
 1. Re-run `plugin_setup.sh` — removes the stale symlink and creates a new one pointing at the new path
 2. Update `SCRIPTS_DIR` in Settings → Other Settings → Varaverk (or edit `varaverk.cfg` directly on flash)
 
 The `.plg` on flash does not need to change — it has no path references.
 
+This doesn't apply to a normal install (via the raw `.plg` URL) — that always lives at
+the fixed path `/boot/config/plugins/varaverk`, there's no separate location to move.
+
 ---
 
 ## ━━━ UPDATING THE PLUGIN VERSION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
-The version in `/boot/config/plugins/varaverk.plg` is cosmetic for a local plugin —
+`build.sh` rewrites the `version` and `sha256` entities in `Plugin/varaverk.plg` to match
-Unraid does not check it against anything remote. Update it when you want the Plugins
+each release build — don't hand-edit them. The `sha256`/packaged `.txz` aren't currently
-management page to reflect when the plugin was last changed:
+consumed by anything (see the CHANGES entry in `varaverk.plg` — install is git-clone +
+symlink, not package-based), so today this is mostly cosmetic version tracking:
 
-```xml
+```bash
-<!ENTITY version "2026.05.28">
+cd Plugin/
+./build.sh              # today's date as version
+./build.sh 2026.09.01    # explicit version
 ```
 
+Commit and push. The version shown on the Plugins page updates next time Unraid
+re-fetches the `.plg` (the Plugins page's Update action, or a fresh install).
+
 ---
 
 ## ━━━ ADDING A NEW OS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Plugin/README-Plugin.md

@@ -120,4 +120,4 @@ No other files need changing.
 | `event/disks_mounted/rebuild_cron` | Fires on every boot — copies `.plg`, rebuilds cron |
 | `event/disks_mounted/array_start_jobs` | Fires when array starts |
 | `event/disks_unmounting/array_stop_jobs` | Fires when array stops |
-| `/boot/config/plugins/varaverk.plg` | Registers the plugin with Unraid's plugin system (lives on flash, not in repo) |
+| `Plugin/varaverk.plg` | Registers the plugin with Unraid's plugin system — tracked in-repo; installed via its raw URL through Plugins → Install Plugin (see Manual-Plugin.md), which Unraid saves to `/boot/config/plugins/varaverk.plg` itself |

Plugin/unraid/VaraverkSettings.page

@@ -30,9 +30,4 @@ _(Scripts directory)_:
      style="color:#555;text-decoration:none;">
     Issues
   </a>
-  &nbsp;·&nbsp;
-  <a href="https://github.com/FailedProxy/Varaverk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md" target="_blank"
-     style="color:#555;text-decoration:none;">
-    Changelog
-  </a>
 </div>

Plugin/unraid/include/unraid_api.php

@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ function vv_local_host_stats(): array {
 
 // ── Confirmed schema (Unraid 7.3, introspected 2026-05-31) ───────────────────
 // Adding a new host: add HOSTn="hostname" to master.conf and HOSTn_UNRAID_API_KEY
-// to hostn.conf, then run Deployment/deploy.sh. No schema work needed.
+// to hostn.conf, then push and pull as usual. No schema work needed.
 //
 // If a future Unraid version renames a field, the affected function falls back
 // to local reads and the api banner lists the fallback — fix by updating the GQL.