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I recently got fed up with Plex continually yanking free features and decided to set up Jellyfin, which thanks to the recent HexOS updates was a breeze. One click install just simply worked, and since I already had folders set up for Plex, most of my stuff just showed up in Jellyfin (the naming works a little differently but that's off topic). The main impitus for setting up Jellyfin was remote watching. Here's the [not so detailed] steps I went through: 1. Installed Tailscale on your server through TrueNAS UI via tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Py62k63_c (thank you @sdev) - might be able to install through HexOS dash now but I did the above and it's playing nice with HexOS NOTE: do not include any advertised routes or the app will not launch (in my experience) 2. On the device you're watching remotely, connect to Tailscale using your server as the exit node. 3. Only other thing I had to do was when launching Jellyfin remotely, you have to add a new server using the IP of the exit node as displayed under "machines" in the Tailscale interface. I was able to use the same port number (numbers after the colon for super noobs like me). Of course this only works for devices that can install Tailscale, so no smart TV's that I'm aware of, but I mainly wanted this for my phone anyways. Also Jellyfin still seems to be working out bugs with downloading files for offline watching and they don't have a download manager yet (I use VLC player to watch) but downloads were broken for years on Plex anyways. Hope this helps someone!

Tailscale pleeeeeease!!

Danish Native Dane

I’m a native Spanish speaker. More than happy to help!

I am a native French speaker from France. Happy to help if I can.

I could help with French, native from Belgium

Dutch Native, happy to help

German, native -- and happy to help 🙂

Czech, professional translator, technical

Swedish, Native

Swedish, native.

Norwegian (bokmål) native

Norwegian (bokmål) Native

Dutch Native

German Native

I'd like to help with Czech, and I'm a native Czech speaker.

Danish Native Dane

One of the things we hear often from the community is some version of: "I'd love to get my family/friends/parents onto HexOS, but everything is in English." We're fixing that. A translation system is coming to HexOS soon, and when it lands we want to launch with more than just English...which is where you come in. What we're looking for Community members who speak a language other than English and are willing to help translate the HexOS interface. You don't need to be a professional translator, and you don't need to be technical. If you use HexOS and you're fluent in another language, you're exactly who we're hoping to hear from. The goal is to make self-hosting approachable for people everywhere, not just for English speakers. Good translations are a big part of that, and the people who actually use the product tend to do a far better job of it than a machine. What it will involve We're still finalizing the details of the system itself, but expect something straightforward: a list of phrases from the HexOS interface that you translate into your language, at your own pace, with no fixed commitment or deadline. We'll share full instructions with everyone who signs up once we're ready to roll it out. How to volunteer Just reply to this post with: The language(s) you'd like to help with Optionally, your region or dialect if it matters (e.g. Brazilian vs. European Portuguese) That's it. We'll follow up here and reach out directly as we get closer to launch. Thank you in advance! This community continues to make HexOS better than we could on our own.

The per-app resource metrics are awesome though. Now I know for sure it's immich using 60% CPU following a big picture dump. And I know how much ram everything is chewing up.

I'm unable to change the timespan for monitoring. I select a different value from the drop-down but it remains at the default. Super minor but if the functionality is there it'd be nice if it worked.

Here I am a few months later and seems the dream is starting to come true. I was getting pissed off at Plex and set up jellyfin in 3 minutes and had it working all from my phone on my recliner with my wife in my lap.

To start, Docker is behaving correctly. But in HexOS, I'm seeing that the configured base 172.17.0.0/12 is technically invalid as a /12 network boundary, which is being normalized to 172.16.0.0/12. This results in automatic allocation of 172.16.x.0/24 networks. If the intention is to allocate only from 172.17.x.x, the base should be changed to 172.17.0.0/16. Practically speaking, when a user deploys apps, they typically appear to end up on new Docker bridge networks, which can quickly create IP conflicts for the few users out there using 172.16.x.x/16 networks. I noticed this after the TrueNAS login page was showing up unexpectedly for one of my unrelated endpoints. I'd suggest surfacing some configuration parameters somewhere in the UI, namely the Docker network pool config. As a more immediate fix: To reconfigure my HexOS deployment to use the 172.17.0.0/16 network ranges instead, I ran: root@HexOS[~]# midclt call docker.update '{ "address_pools": [ { "base": "172.17.0.0/16", "size": 24 }, { "base": "fdd0::/48", "size": 64 } ] }'

We'll put in on a list for consideration. Thanks for submitting your request.

new app curations read more about it here https://docs.hexos.com/en/release-notes/command-deck/2026-07-19

What would this app do? For the phone or computer?