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Within the dashboard, each curated app has a Reset App Curation button, which presumably restores aspects of the app configuration—such as the app folder location, permissions, and other curated settings—to their expected values. This is a useful feature, but it would be even more valuable to have a Verify App Curation function. Alternatively, the system could periodically verify the configuration and only display Reset App Curation when it detects that the current configuration differs from the curated configuration. The main use case for me is that I have several apps that were deployed before they became curated. I would like to be able to see exactly what differs between my current configuration and the curated configuration. Ideally, the verification would provide a summary of the differences, allowing users to: See which settings or files differ from the curated configuration. Preview what would be changed by Reset App Curation. Determine whether the differences are intentional or simply remnants of an older deployment. Manually make changes where appropriate to bring an existing deployment into alignment with the curated configuration, without necessarily having to reset the entire curation. For example, rather than simply being told that an app's curation is out of sync, it would be helpful to see something along the lines of: App curation differs from the current configuration App directory: differs Directory ownership: differs Directory permissions: matches Configuration file: matches Required datasets: differs Reset App Curation would make the following changes: ... This would make the existing Reset App Curation functionality much more transparent and useful, particularly for users who deployed apps before they were curated and want to understand what has changed without blindly resetting their existing configuration.

Hello, I'm finally getting around to taking apart my old PC and turning it into a server. Specs: i7-9700K, 32GB RAM, Z390 AORUS MASTER, RSV-L4500U. I want to put two M.2 SSDs as my OS drives with redundancy. Having two disables some of my 6 SATA connections, so I'm in need of some SATA expansion. I don't know a whole lot about them, but it seems a lot of people recommend the Broadcom 9--- HBA cards. Id have though Id just get some SATA expansion cards, but these HBA cards seem to be more recommended from what I gather. Through my reading the LSI 9305-16i and the LSI 9400-16i are what I'm looking for. I found a LSI 9400-16i on ebay for 108$ that comes from China. I guess I'm wondering if these are generally real or of they are fake/knockoff and if its any good. What do you guys use? Any advice or recommendation is much appreciated! Thank you.

At this time I'm not aware of any plans to do that but the scope of HexOS is constantly expanding

Are there any plans to build an app like Synology's Active Backup for Microsoft 365 that would be a game changer for me.

Please keep it up, the request curation button can take a punch or a hundred Thats a great idea and it's been forwarded to the dev team

Okay, so I see in the latest (sept. 23 2026) blogpost that buddy backups and VM are both arriving this black friday. It's like we're getting what was supposed to be HexOS 1.1 and 1.2 in one big update, and that's really cool. So, the logical question should be...what's next? I'm really looking forward to ZFS AnyRAID, but that's somewhat out of HexOS' hands. Next thing I'd like to see is an automated backup and restore of HexOS itself. I believe backup and restore of truenas is as simple as exporting and importing a config file. Make that export (to a USB thumbdrive or email?) automatic. Maybe it's too simple to be called a headline feature of 1.3? What about HexOS' own dropbox-like solution? With desktop clients and possibly mobile apps... Anyways, whatever you guys have planned, I'm sure it's gonna be awesome. Thanks

Hi Mobius. The request curation button is awesome. I abuse the hell out of it. If it also added it to a "requested" section or something on the app page that would work just as well.

I see where you are coming from i'll pass on the feedback to the team

when you click the install button for uncurated apps it gives you the option to request curation. But yes you are right it should be made more obvious

Hi team, With how fast app curation is taking place, I was wondering if it would be possible to add a favorite button to apps that are not yet curated. Would be helpful to have an easy way to record apps that I am waiting for. Thank you. 🙂

Ok got it than you. Good to know that Hexos dose this in the background for us noobs.

Hey, you don't need to install or user neither docker nor dockage/portainer etc. HexOS takes care of everything for you. All you need to do, is login the HexOS Dashboard, go to curated Apps and install all the apps you want and need and HexOS is taking care off everything. No docker compose files, not folder mapping, no db user/PW to take care off, just super simple one click install apps. Under the hood HexOS is configuring and running those apps in docker, but you absolutely don't need to worry about this yourself. Just give it a try and install the apps and please report back how it went :)

Novice here. =/ This is my 2nd try at properly setting up my server. The first time i was having issues so I upgraded my hdd hardware to a Terramaster D6-320 and better truespec usb cable. Because this is a fresh install of hexos and I formatted all my drives I want to get it right from the start. No mater how many videos I watch I am still confused on what docker is and its use case. (its like a vm folder?) My main question is should I install and set up Dockage or other Docker like programs before installing plex, immich, & maybe home serves for minecraft and enshrouded? Is it needed? What novice benefits does one gain? Sorry for the beginner questions, just wanna learn more and get it right.

The notification is gone and everything working normally, thank you!

Having a launch button for apps with a GUI is really convenient, but I would like to have the option of changing the URL that is used. I have some services exposed publicly through a reverse proxy (i.e. nextcloud, immich), but the button always opens a new tab with the local address. The deck already gives you access to your server from the outside, so if you choose to expose services publicly the buttons become a bit useless...

Thank you for pointing me there. seems the exact issue i have. Not sure how i missed that when searching for a solution.

Hey, you can check this post to find an explanation to what you are seeing: Generally it's recommended to not spin down the discs, since this adds significant wear on the drives and potentially makes them die faster and therefor any amount saved on electricity is negated by the fact that you possibly need to buy a new drive way sooner then you initially would have needed without spinning drives down. This is just the general recommendation, but everyone can do as he wishes :)

And it seems you can't shut it down via truenas apps or docker containers because it will autorestart. but in the time it is actually down. my discs have no reads and go to sleep propperly

Just to elaborate on that topic a little further. it seems that the hexos container actually reads on the HDDs every 2 minutes. I even downgraded from 25.10 to 25.4 again but couldn't get them easily to sleep. I actually assume because of the reads, exactly every 2 minutes. When i stop the hexos app, those reads are gone and the HDDs are spinning down properly. Discs are set to sleep after 5 minutes for easier testing and no advance sleep for now. Begs the question.... Am I missing a setting in HEXOS which wakes them up again or is that somehow intended ?

This one is cleans up our workflow dialogs for more consistency throughout the UI (and better navigation), and addresses some bugs with mobile. We also snuck in the VM beta, but it's invite-only to start. Remember to sign up here if you haven't! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18XKSC5U0DPcaJL0RxrqRKqLl-mr7aS1WkTR9eftxOZw/viewform https://docs.hexos.com/release-notes/command-deck/2026-09-18

I'm new at this, but my understanding is that Rclone is what I would need to use Dropbox as my off-site copies of often accessed, often edited files.

Have sent in a request for VM testing :), have a lab ready for just playing around. Thinking about setting up a MECM lab using Hexos. Have been using **raid so far. but i like the way Hexos looks and feels more, it is the only reason i bought 2 licenses for Hexos. If the system breaks does not matter, have this lab setup just for VM tinkering. Been waiting since first beta of Hexos for this posibility. So look forward for the posibility for testing.

Ok

fixed the link, didn't realize they are set to automatically expire in 30 days. this one shouldn't do that

@Mobius The discord invite link has expired.