diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy-dev.yml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy-dev.yml
index c3c2308..89f1aa1 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy-dev.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy-dev.yml
@@ -205,37 +205,34 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN }}
           SECRET_KEY: ${{ secrets.SECRET_KEY }}
-          ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH: ${{ secrets.ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH }}
-          GITEA_DB_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.GITEA_DB_PASSWORD }}
         run: |
-          set -uxe
+          set -x
           DOCKER="ssh nasts /volume1/@appstore/ContainerManager/usr/bin/docker"
           COMPOSE="ssh nasts /volume1/@appstore/ContainerManager/usr/bin/docker-compose"
           NAS_VOL="/volume1/docker/nas-dashboard"
 
-          # Stop existing container if running
-          $COMPOSE -f $NAS_VOL/docker-compose.dev.yml -p nas-dashboard-dev down 2>/dev/null || true
+          # Step 1: Stop existing containers
+          echo "=== STEP 1: Down ==="
+          $COMPOSE -f $NAS_VOL/docker-compose.dev.yml -p nas-dashboard-dev down 2>&1 || echo "down ok"
 
-          # Ensure network exists (create only if it doesn't exist)
-          if ! $DOCKER network inspect nas-dashboard_internal >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            $DOCKER network create nas-dashboard_internal
-          fi
+          # Step 2: Ensure network exists
+          echo "=== STEP 2: Network ==="
+          $DOCKER network inspect nas-dashboard_internal >/dev/null 2>&1 || $DOCKER network create nas-dashboard_internal
 
-          # Deploy
-          ssh nasts "cd $NAS_VOL && GITEA_TOKEN=$GITEA_TOKEN SECRET_KEY=$SECRET_KEY /volume1/@appstore/ContainerManager/usr/bin/docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml -p nas-dashboard-dev up -d --pull never" 2>&1 || true
+          # Step 3: Deploy new container
+          echo "=== STEP 3: Up ==="
+          ssh nasts "cd $NAS_VOL && GITEA_TOKEN=$GITEA_TOKEN SECRET_KEY=$SECRET_KEY /volume1/@appstore/ContainerManager/usr/bin/docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml -p nas-dashboard-dev up -d --pull never" 2>&1 || echo "up returned $?"
 
-          if ! $DOCKER container inspect nas-dashboard-dev >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            echo "Compose failed to create container..."
-            exit 1
-          fi
+          # Step 4: Verify container exists
+          echo "=== STEP 4: Inspect ==="
+          $DOCKER container inspect nas-dashboard-dev >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "container exists" || { echo "container not found"; exit 1; }
 
-          # Connect networks after container is created (idempotent)
-          $DOCKER network connect nas-dashboard_internal nas-dashboard-dev 2>/dev/null || true
-          $DOCKER network connect gitea_gitea nas-dashboard-dev 2>/dev/null || true
+          # Step 5: Connect networks
+          echo "=== STEP 5: Network connect ==="
+          $DOCKER network connect nas-dashboard_internal nas-dashboard-dev 2>&1 || echo "already connected"
+          $DOCKER network connect gitea_gitea nas-dashboard-dev 2>&1 || echo "already connected"
 
-          # Verify both connections
-          echo "=== Network connections ==="
-          $DOCKER inspect nas-dashboard-dev --format '{{json .NetworkSettings.Networks}}' | python3 -c 'import json,sys;nets=json.load(sys.stdin);[print(f"  Connected to {n}") for n in nets];assert "nas-dashboard_internal" in nets and "gitea_gitea" in nets, "Missing required network";print("All network connections established")'
+          echo "=== DEPLOY COMPLETE ==="
 
       - name: Wait for container to be healthy
         run: |