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Thanks Hades!! Side perk of being a community contributor to our translations ;-).

Yes, still the plan. The UI is already mobile responsive, so it works well on phones, but we definitely plan to have an app in the future. Aside from being a native app to use to navigate the UI/UX, there are some other features we're thinking about that would be uniquely available through the app that wouldn't apply to simple browser-based management. Not ready to reveal all of that just yet.

Hi Chris and thank you for your interest in HexOS. You can definitely adapt your current setup to HexOS without having to destroy your existing data. HexOS is based on TrueNAS SCALE, so importing your existing ZFS pools won't be a problem. Here's my recommendation if you decide to purchase: 1) Backup your existing TrueNAS SCALE configuration: navigate to System -> Advanced Settings and download your configuration file as shown in the screenshot below: 2) Reinstall HexOS on your boot drive using our installation media. 3) After rebooting, navigate to deck.hexos.com to claim your server (keep in mind, you'll need to purchase a license to do this), and when you get to the storage configuration part, click "skip". 4) If you have other customizations you've made to the configuration of your system that aren't showing up, you can navigate to the TrueNAS UI again and restore the configuration file you backed up previously. Let us know if you have any additional questions and thanks for considering HexOS!

Hi There. I currently have a TrueNAS Scale setup with about 48TB of data on it. It works fine as a local network file share, but my limited understanding of permissions (at least I believe that is where the hang up is) won't let me get any other apps such as Jellyfin working (installs, but not working). As this is, I believe, where HexOS shines, would I be able to migrate the system to HexOS without having to completely back up everything (of course critical files are already backed up) to external drives to recreate after, or would it be a complete redo? Wouldn't bother to ask if HexOS wasn't built on top of TrueNAS, but maybe with that there is a possibility? Thanks.

Wholeheartedly agree with this. There are a bunch of microservices we can install through the HexOS/TrueNAS UIs, and creating/managing separate users for each one becomes a major headache. The HexOS dashboard is just another webapp that has its own user management with no support for external authentication (yet). In 2026, software such as HexOS that aims to simplify the deployment of TrueNAS and microservices should support some form of SSO, preferably OAuth2/OIDC. Alternatively, parsing authentication headers such as `X-Forwarded-User` or `X-Authenticated-User` from a trusted reverse proxy is also a great way to add SSO support if a full OIDC integration is too challenging. I would love to see HexOS become an authentication provider with automated integration to the various microservices so that even my grandma could configure it, but for now I'll settle for Authentik and some manual configuration.

I lvoe getting a sneak peek into the next features by translating HexOS -- Buddy Backup beeing the obviuos (and known) feature, but there are so many small (and some bigger) things i can gleam from the translations...I can't wait to see them come to a public build (and no, i will not spoil them - you will need to start translating to find them....) Thank you for your work Hades

Quick follow-up after looking into this further. I was able to reproduce and fix the similar scrolling issue on my own site. In my case it turned out to be genuine responsive-layout overflow rather than a stale browser scrollbar. At short landscape heights, the content was only a few pixels taller than the available viewport. Looking more closely at my Command Deck recording, I noticed something that may help narrow this one down too: near the end, the menu reflows and extends onto an additional row. That seems like it could be increasing the overall page height just enough to create the slight vertical scrolling. It might be worth checking scrollHeight vs clientHeight at these short landscape viewport heights and whether the menu wrapping is what pushes the document beyond the viewport. On my site I fixed the equivalent problem by slightly compacting the landscape-only layout so the content fit, while keeping normal scrolling as a fallback for genuinely shorter screens. After making that change, I confirmed the issue is completely gone on my phone. Obviously Command Deck may have a different underlying layout, but hopefully the menu reflow gives you a useful place to look.

Nice to see. Thanks guys. -- Orion

Absolutely. Sent via email!

Thanks for taking the time to write this. Can you add some photo so I can send it to the Devs?

I noticed Command Deck has a tiny amount of page scrolling even though the UI looks like it’s intended to be fixed to the viewport. I ran into almost exactly this on my own site. In my case an off-canvas drawer extended beyond the visible frame and was still contributing to root overflow. The fix was to make the page shell itself the positioned clipping boundary: .site-shell { position: relative; overflow: hidden; /* fallback */ overflow: clip; } Might be worth checking whether one of Command Deck’s translated/off-screen panels, drawers, decorative elements, etc. is extending the document bounds. It can produce only a few pixels of scroll and be surprisingly easy to miss.

Yeah, what complicates their side further is that their dependency (truenas apps) have skipped versions before too.

I cannot log into my Dashboard? Why is that?

Would you expect this to be at additional cost? Sounds like they would have management responsibility on their servers and require additional staff. If it is a cost, how much per month is it worth to you?

Yes, that is indeed the case. I'm more refering to the fact that HexOS does not account for this limitation, just happily upgrades from 32 to 34 and in the process bricks the installation. In fact, it doesn't even have a method of performing such a sequential update, I needed to go into TrueNAS Scale in order to do updates 1 major version at a time. The "can't skip major versions" of Nextcloud's update process should be well known by now, and the app is not marked experimental. HexOS's update process shouldn't allow an update skipping major versions to be performed at all.

I have also long thought this would be the killer feature for HexOS. The user requirement of having all these wonderful new curated apps available from an external network in a secure and convenient manner.

https://docs.hexos.com/release-notes/command-deck/2026-08-07 Pretty significant update and groundwork has been laid for buddy backups (coming soon)!

They finally added the feature (kinda)! It doesn't change the name in TrueNAS, but in HexOS you can change the name shown for a pool. Thank you very much. Go in Storage, select a Pool and you'll have the Rename button available.

Fantastic - thank you! Loving th thematic release of all 3 together. Do you have any plans to incorporate the Data Importer tool for Firefly? https://github.com/firefly-iii/data-importer

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And it just came back up (local host at the moment). Swapping to Hosted it doesn't like.

I am having this issue as well. The Deck GUI was working great for the last few weeks and now I cannot get it to connect to my server. I am still able to log in through the truenas UI and everything is up and running, but the Deck continues to tell me it is not able to connect to my server. It partially connected one time (the apps section had tiles, but they never fully loaded), but then immediately lost connection. Anyone help is greatly appreciated!

Could be wrong, but I think you have to update through every major (first number change) version sequentially. Looks like you skipped 33. If people are updating regularly they may not have this issue.

That suggestion's Origin is coming from a similar string inside of Deck. I have just enabled Google Cloud Translate API that you ALL can access from the Automatic suggestions tab.