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I don't seen any update on the HEXOS page. Just trying to get Plex working better on the HEXOS PC. It slow to connect when outside the network or show unavailable.

Sounds like a generous and solid plan. I had the same thoughts back then too. Thankfully i caved and bought 2 licenses.

Right now the front runner plan is to use 1 of the T630s to replace my VM server (Precision T7810). Upgrade that T630 with 2x 20 core CPUs and make that my VM server. Then possibly "donate" the other T630 to a friend that has been wanting to upgrade/replace his older Synology NAS with the stipulation that I can use it as well as my offsite backup server vs paying Dropbox about $30.00 a month. Finally take the Precision T7810 (current VM server) and use that as my TrueNAS replication server. I knew I should have bought multiple HexOS licenses when they were $99 lol

I've run a few updates and wasn't paying attention. What is the supported Plex version number?

That's a great deal! What are your deployment/configuration plans?

No worries

Oops. In my message above I meant to link to a couple of the places it says don't update TrueNas yet but it seems I get ahead of myself. Sorry for any confusion.

This may or may not help at all, but I had issues with connting to my server until I went into my router and reserved the IP that my server is using, If youdl did not do this right away and your router decided to give you a new IP then well your gonna have to set it up as a new server unless you know the IP you first used and manually assign it back to that server under the TrueNAS side. I also had an issue with network bridging when setting it up on the hexos side it will give out a new IP even if you have your router setup to only use a certain IP, so again you will have to go into the truenas side and manually assign the correct IP to that bridge, hopefully this will help someone, idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it might be something else all together but I'm kinda shooting in the wind with what little info that was provided.

Updating TrueNas is not recommended at this moment. In many cases it will break HexOs.

See nascompares.com. In the subsection TrueNas you will find a lot of guides. Also for Ugreen, Qnap, Asustor, ….

Accidentally changed the title, please ignore it. I have not seen anyone mention using that but i think people have gotten truenas to work on the similarly priced and i think slightly stronger UGREEN NASync DXP4800 I would have suggested an Aoostar machine as a lot of users had good luck with them and they cost less but if you are located in the united states its no longer a price competitive option because tarrifs.

Has anyone tried this ?

Be careful with that because I did and I lost access to my DVR. When I looked at the Plex forum I saw several more folks with the same issue I had. If that is not a concern for you the update process is in TrueNAS. The dashboard shows the number of available updates, which for me is everything I have deployed including TrueNAS itself.

New to this HexOS. How can I updated to the newest Plex version?

I just purchased this on eBay @ a very cheap price for 2 PowerEdge T630 servers (with HDDs (16x900GB and 4x 2TB)) for only $147.50 for everything. Only reason I got it so cheap was because Im local and the seller would only ship to people via freight. Now I have my backup replication server(s) for my homelab

https://www.gingerling.co.uk/hexos-its-immich-time/

@TheCamba Here you are! https://www.gingerling.co.uk/hexos-its-immich-time/

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Thanks so much for this @Todd Miller - It's helpful and interesting, especially the word Experience of Technical. I would like to write a post specifically about what I do and don't know about HexOS and how that has affected me so far. The difficulty I have is in describing what I don't know, I am not yet at a stage where I have figured that out for HexOS. I found it easier to write what I do and don't know about building a PC, for that first post, as I've been watching LTT for years so I have herad a lot of words I don't understand. For HexOS I felt like I knew almost nothing. I will have a bash at a first draft and maybe we can work on it here? Try and add in some terminology and fill in some total blanks!

I tried again just now and was able to connect.

At this time there isn't such a place. i know a lot of users do want such a thing

Is there a place to view nightly changes, updates, fixes, etc. ? If not, I think it would be a good idea to all that have paid for the software to see information about the work and progress that is being done.

I've scheduled some time for myself this weekend to go to plain TrueNAS Scale. I don't see the benefit of HexOS yet. I am very eager for when it becomes worth it however almost everything I have done with the exception of creating shares, I have needed to switch over to TrueNAS GUI to accomplish. I'm not sure if this is on my end or if it is a HexOS thing, but I find the user interface to be unbelievable slow most of the time. I can have a fresh boot, let everything finish starting up and then I will click on Storage and wait a good 1-2 minutes before the icons actually show. My hardware is no super-computer but its definitely no slouch either. No hate towards the service/product, just don't think its for me.

I wanted to use HexOS for my family's all-around backup server for all of our devices, plus a single location for Plex, immich, and vaultwarden. I thought that it would be simple but I'm seeing that the vaultwarden app is something that isn't ready as a curated HexOS app yet. Hoping that changes soon as I think that would justify the price.

If you need to fall back the TrueNas to run an app, I would be suspicious of it having installed successfully. I can't say it is unacceptable though because it is the app (like Immich or Plex) running regardless of how you got there. When I had a similar issue it was because of a security issue with the folders that someone helped me with so I bet it could be a lot of things.