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It looks like the App curation process has something amiss. here is the error from the truenas section. I gather ACL is something to do with permissions? Can anyone decipher this so i can fix it?

I think if we are honest almost everyone would say they were disappointed in how this startup has gone including Eshtek. I don't think all of our disappointment is justified because it has nothing to actually do with HexOS. However, you have hit on two points that are hard to argue with. Why are we paying up to $200 to test this application? And TrueNAS what? As for the paying to test question, I guess I am starting to do the same (well kind of) as you because I have set it aside to wait for go live. Plex and Immich are the only current curated apps I would ever use and until the serious discussions on how to secure the NAS start my machine is just a giant backup drive. And as for the current absolute requirement to use TrueNAS to do ALMOST anything including troubleshooting curated app failures. Well, if I am going to have to hire TrueNAS support to properly setup all non curated and some curated apps, I'm probably better off buying beer for my current Unraid support buddy. Like many others, I saw the LTT video and thought "Holly crap, someone finally built a system I can manage myself. I got in at the Black Friday price so HexOS on a mostly recycles server is still cheaper that a Synology or Ugreen prebuilt server. Storage seems to be the biggest cost but I have to pay that either way. I'm sure I will keep checking in and looking at the officially curated apps to see if anything looks interesting but unless there is a solid security option, it's all pretty irrelevant to me. My problem is that if I had to pay $299 what would I need to pull the trigger? That may be a tough uphill struggle for Eshtek if they want to attract people who are not at least serviceable in TrueNAS. So instead of looking at an the app we have today and deciding what it must be going to look like in 1, 2 and 5 years, we can wait and see what 1.0 looks like. I doubt though it will ever just be point and click.

Hey all! We've published a new blog post sharing some of the development work happening behind the scenes at HexOS. This time, we're highlighting our new end-to-end testing suite which is going to drastically help our development moving forward. Checkout the new blog post for more details! The docsite has also been updated to include two awesome user created guides regarding Immich. To be fully transparent, we are still figuring out what exactly the HexOS official solution looks like, but want to provide you with as much support as possible in the meantime. docs link: guide by @Forsaken (hub link) docs link: guide by @G-M0N3Y-2503 (hub link) Here is also a guide directly from the Immich community. If you have more specific questions/issues with Immich please put them in the Immich support section. You may have also seen that we are hiring! This role (along with our end-to-end testing) will be crucial for keeping up with apps and staying ahead of issues like the one we saw with Immich. Thank you to everyone who applied! We’ll be conducting interviews soon and are looking forward to chatting with you all.

WHERE I AM: I'm currently running HexOS on a standard PC build using older parts - Ryzen 3700x Nvidia 1660 Super 32gb DDR4 3200 RAM 5 4TB HDDs (storage) and small nvme for OS HOW I USE IT CURRENTLY: I use the HexOS machine in the garage to stream movies, music, store and view photos, and store old work documents. The machine runs 24/7 because I use them to access music from pretty much all over the house, and the family streams at random times in the day across the house, especially as we start cutting off streaming services. WHY I WANT TO CHANGE THE SETUP: I have two primary reasons for wanting to change things around: 1) Over the course of about a year, I've had two separate failures in the pool - certain drives degraded and became unrecoverable within about 6 months of use (one in the first 6 months, another within the past month), and breaking down the standard PC case to identify the drive and remove it is a pain in the neck - I recognize that I should be printing the drive ID on the hdd (now) but I'm thinking of changing over to a hot-swap format with rack mounted servers with some cheap server computers I've found locally. 2) I want to start experimenting more with home lab projects and understanding networking. WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO: 1) Incorporate 2x Dell R330 servers ($40 each) as NAS, which each have 4x hot swap 3.5 HDD bays. 2) Use the 3700x machine as a transcoder to serve the media around the house (lots of smart tvs so want to make sure different video formats won't cause issues) FEASABILITY: 1) Getting the hardware itself isn't the problem, but I want to know if this plan is possible in terms of functioning with HexOS 2) Even if feasible, does this plan make sense? Is there a "better" way to go about this, or am I tackling the problem entirely from the wrong the viewpoint? 3) Open to all other feedback.

I am not a beta tester, i know i bought a beta test software. My issue is that after almost a whole year i can scan the forums and most issues someone will state, you will need to access truenas to fix it. If i need to access the free software to fix the paid software then I been duped and mislead after a year.. I can see that the team has curated a few more apps and that's great, but I gave yet to see the VM workspace. Will that be a 1.0 release or 2.0, 3.0 etc.? Yes, I understand this is beta but I need more meat than little morsels here and there. Honestly I'm just blabbing I don't run hex because the only reason I got hex OS is to not have to figure things out in truenas and creating simple shares for backup failed and i had to access truenas to fix permission. At that point i gave up and would rather use my electricity for something else. Don't get me wrong im waiting for the day that i can just point and click and be done.

I have just setup a new server using a Minisforum MS-A2 all SSD. Have installed Homeassistant through the Curated App installer. I didnt modify any of the default settings. I went to do a Restore in Home Assistant via the upload backup option. The backup uploaded but failed to restore with: [Errno 16] Resource busy: PosixPath('/config/postgres_data') I tried a few more times but same I rebooted Hexos from the deck when i logged back in after the reboot i saw notifications: Any advice? have other people had any similar warnings? Thanks

yup never blindly trust ai, I don't mind using ai as a starting point, just gotta always make sure to verify for anything important.

oh that's what the google ai said could work, but being ai I didn't trust is XD. Thank you for that post. I just read through it and bookmarked the post that the guy posted there with kernel parameter info as well. I'll give that a shot later.

hmm its not something i've looked into for a while let me check with someone else.

seems like there is a way in truenas to do so https://forums.truenas.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-turn-off-the-screen-on-truenas-scale/4212/7

Are there any news on this? Just wondering because I had trouble installing HexOS a while ago, couldn't get through the Setup and installed regular TrueNAS Scale. Now I have two licenses sitting idle instead of one (Buddy Backup ^^). TrueNAS Scale works and it is no pressing matter at all. Just curious if there any updates to the migration? To access the HexOS extra features.

I'll look into that. I have a cheap kvm i was going to use for my main set up but it's only a 1080 60hz, so i never used it, so might give it a try. Would it make the nas think the "monitor" is always on, so it doesn't turn off the signal and switch to headless mode? Or would that be a setting in the bios setting i haven't found yet?

godspeed

Alright then, I will try this as I don't see any other method, thanks so much for the advice, it gave the me the last bit of courage that I needed. Wish me luck, and I'l update with my results 🙂

it might be more worth it for you to get something like a jet kvm (or cheaper alternative) if you plan to toss your server into a hard to access location.

With LTT Official Folding Month VIII (Nov 1st - Dec 6th) coming up, It would be really nice to see a how to guide to get FoldingAtHome easily working from anyone who knows how. I just put a request out for help for anyone to provide a guide if possible. Here's hoping. https://hub.hexos.com/topic/3927-foldingathome-ltt-official-folding-month-viii-nov-1st-dec-6th-help-setup-hexos/

I only really thought about xeons was because server motherboard have that maintenance port thing that I figured would be easier to check in on the server. and finding a server motherboard for my cpu seems to be limited from what i looked up. Yea the only thing on the server right now is my dvd rips, books, and random docs. most of my stuff is backed up elseware. 3.2.1 back up protocol is something im looking into. right now its a 2.2.0 XD

Womp, no E5 xeons from those gens have igpus lol. Will have to keep digging.

Thats a fair point. I'll see if theres any similar ones to what I found but with igpu. Hmmm

i would do this. it will not resize to larger capacity until you replace all the drives in the pool. but as always backup any mission critical data. i personally am not aware of such method.

Thing is that I built this system in an old gifted computer with a motherboard that only supports 4 drives as far as I know (one of which is the boot drive is on a SSD), so I created a pool with just 2 drives, I did consider maybe plugging one 8tb drive in as a third and then copy the files or something, but should I do this manually? I don't really know how I should go about this, do I create a new pool then? wouldn't that erase my data on my previous pool? some people said to just plug out one of the 2tb drives and replace it and let it rebuild but will that resize to the larger capacity? also I wouldn't want take this risk without knowing for sure it will work 😅 In the Docs I read something about 'Expanding Drives' but my pool says this is not supported since I only have 2 drives and not 3... 😞 What do you suggest I should do? thanks for the replies so far, I really appreciate the help 🙂 (P.S. also read somewhere on the forum that it would be possible to solve with the TrueNAS UI backend but I wouldn't even know where to begin really)

yeah it might be time for new hardware. I would also suggest not keeping your only copy of important data on this machine if you intend to keep using it as is. xeons are excessive if the only reason you are picking them is for less of a headache. for most users a used cpu and mobo is good enough. heck in your case i might even look for a replacement motherboard on the cheap.

Yes, I need to find something else to host it on, just don't have the funds right now. Trying to find some server grade mobo for my 6600 i5 to try to save some money. But might just have to go with a xeon something to have less of a head ache when I get the proper funds. This is mainly to get my feet wet and learn truenas and self hosting.

Sorry ment z170. Old intel i5 6600. And I'll look into that and see what goes into it

since you are just replacing 2 drives, have you considered just plugging your 2 2tb drives and 2 8tb drives at the same time, copying over your data then removing your 2tb drives?