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It is a must these days to have TailScale support, especially for secure remote access. It is far too easy to mess up a WireGaurd/OpenVPN Config, if the goal is security and simplicity, Tailscale VPN access should be a high priority.

Hello, not sure if it was requested already, but a curation for the "Actual Budget" app would be greatly appreciated. I found it by looking at the apps tab, and did some more research on it and i would love to switch to it instead of my current app of Quicken since I pay yearly to use it. I think it would help many nowadays due to inflation. Thanks!

This is a good background artikel. Thanks! It’s always good that you really understand the stuff you working with. In my opinion this is also the reason why TrueNas has a pretty steep learning curve. You have to understand the basics of ZFS and the authorization model, before you can configure the right options. To be honest, I am still not really comfortable in TrueNas. With a few guides from the internet I got my TrueNas setup up and running. But after that I change as less as possible 😀 This is exactly the reason I like the concept of HexOs. Rock solid TrueNas / ZFS in the background and easy config in the front end

I would like to see first party support for placing any app behind some of the most popular VPNs (PIA, Nord, Express, Proton, Tailscale, etc), as well as custom VPNs (WireGuard, OpenVPN, etc). For example, you may install “The Lounge” IRC client and have all internet communication pass through a PIA VPN so that your home IP is not exposed while chatting. Traditional methods of doing this involve painful configuration of iptables or other firewall rules. I believe this is an area where HexOS could really simplify things: Install a VPN plugin, authenticate with it, and then simply assign an app to a VPN plugin via the app’s settings if desired. It would be fully accessible from the home network without going through the VPN, but all internet traffic would go through the VPN with a kill switch in case the VPN goes down. Thoughts?

Ability to have 1 drive in a storage pool

@jonp, In case of HDD faillure it would great if HexOs guides the user with the HDD replacement. A small wizard with a few questions and then advice: do this, do that. Especialliy for non tech users it will make a big difference. Users will be nervous in case of HDD faillure. I think simple, low effort feature with big impact. Just my 2 cents.

Hi @migcooper I would follow THESE instructions when replacing your disk.

don't hesitate to ask lots of questions either i've made mistakes i would never have expected like getting an unsupported realtek nic lmao

https://www.gingerling.co.uk/playing-with-hexos-part-1-losing-my-mind-and-my-pool/ Enjoy x

The Lincstation N2 has 16GB LPDDR5 (Non-upgradeable), so 16GB it is. I already use CPU type host, and the i440fx is a click, click, next mistake, ha ha 🙂 . But for my test setup it's good enough and i didn't feel the need to change it, because it works. But I will use Q35 in my final setup. Truenas is also improving the VM engine and will become more and more a virtualisation platform. But for now the sweetspot of HexOs / Truenas is still good and reliable network storage. Proxmox gives me a lot of flexibility and is my virtualisation platform of choice. In the past I used ESXi, but since the Broadcom takeover I moved to Proxmox. vCenter was a nice tool and Proxmox is developing something like that: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_Datacenter_Manager_Roadmap Are you still using Proxmox? Or did you fully move to HexOs/Truenas? I am also curious about what you are using as server hardware.

If you can still afford to wipe your drives, you can setup RaidZ2 in Truenas.

only hexos gets installed to the boot drive. Apps get installed to a separate pool. I agree with @Sonic, the effort required to sell ddr3 is not worth the profit and Hexos loves ram. One thing to keep in mind is if you buy HDDs for a storage pool just make sure the are CMR drives and not SMR drives.

You never can have to much memory. If you have 64 gb in your machine, leave it like that. 😀. You also have buy new memory if you sell the 64GB. And that for a few $ or euro "profit"

I know exactly what you mean. The joy of discovery is immeasurable.

@DylanYou’d have to see it with a child’s eyes .There’s the joy of discovery in all this.

Laughs in Darkness.. All jokes aside Ill put it in to look at this issue.

I was reading THIS arsTECHNICA article on ZFS (as one usually does) and was so impressed that I started looking at other stuff the author has worked on. Turns out THIS guy created a ZFS snapshot application that looks really promising. I've not done anything other than look through the repo but I like what I see so far and wanted to share. Tagging @Sonic @Theo and @PsychoWards because of the thread comments in THIS post. While not totally on topic to that thread, it made me remember that I should share this content.

Look's nice, be curious to see what chipsets it comes with though + how it'll compare to the Ugreen DXP6800 or DXP8800.

So it took two weeks for what every reason. But i got such a great deal that I do not care 8 sticks of dual rank 16gb DDR4 ECC. I got it for 70 buck in the last 3 weeks there has been some good deals on eBay for both memory and used SAS drives. So happy!

Still no update at this time but an updated roadmap should be coming out soon

Second that!

Feature Suggestion: UPS Integration for Automatic Shutdown Enable Hexos to natively support UPS devices for automatic safe shutdown during power outages. • Benefits: Prevent data loss, monitor power status, and improve reliability. • Implementation: Integrate protocols like apcupsd or NUT for broad UPS compatibility and allow configurable shutdown actions. Would you like help submitting this suggestion? support UPS devices for automatic safe shutdown during power outages. • Benefits: Prevent data loss, monitor power status, and improve reliability. • Implementation: Integrate protocols like apcupsd or NUT for broad UPS compatibility and allow configurable shutdown actions. Would you like help submitting this suggestion?

I know this is a request for a more 'One click' Hex TM integration, but incase people wanted to test this now, you can do this in Hex + TN today. (already had mine running a week without issue. TIME MACHINE INSTALL GUIDE Create a Folder & name it time machine (or a custom name) Set the Folder permissions (I left mine open, add user permissions here to restricted access) Navigate to the TrueNas UI (Server IP > Username: truenas_admin Pasword: server password from install) Navigate to the Shares tab, you should see your newly created share. Click on edit (pencil) On the Purpose drop down change to > Basic or multi user time machine. Press save/apply, and it'll prompt a restart of the SMB process. Go to your mac settings > general > Time machine. Click the + icon and locate your time machine share, then click setup disk. FYI if you aren't already connected to your Hex server, you'd need to do so now. Either search for the server in the network tab of finder OR connect to the server with finder > go > connect to server > SMB://[THE IP OF YOUR HEX SERVER] You can now choose to encrypt your backup with a password + if you choose, restrict the total disk usage the backup will have. You should now see your time machine backup setup. This will start automatically, but you can create a back up straight away if you choose. AUTO CONNECT SHARED DRIVE SETUP Now that could be it, but to ensure your Time machine backup will always occur, you need to ensure your Mac is always connected to your Hex server. to do this, we need to add the share to the login items Open Settings > general > Login items > click the + icon Locate your connected time machine share, then click open. You should now see the drive in the login items. That's it, you should be all setup and running.

I am not aware of any special pricing but feel free to reach out to support@hexos.com and welcome!

It seems like the 10gb nics in general are more reliable from what i hear. 10gb gear has been dropping in price pretty fast, you can get noname brand switches with 10gb for well under $100. That said i dunno if im willing to trust that kinda of gear but there are youtubers that are happy with those switches

Now that Plex has decided to increase their costs and charge people for accessing their own data. I would like to see a jellyfin installer.

I don't really know how easy difficult this would be.. but: It would be nice if you could make a hexos intergration for HA. Could be just monitoring, or could be basic actions too. But would be quite cool and nice

It's possible with other mainstream NAS brands like QNAP, Terramaster, Asustor. But Synology has always blocked this option. You can find more background information here: https://nascompares.com/tag/truenas-2022/

You might see limitations if you try to install apps. Synology has a mature operating system built in already so i would suggest trying it before you try hexos if you have a Synology nas Edit: Thanks @Sonic & @PsychoWards for clarifying that synology doesn't support other os installations

Hi @freid, almost $900,- for motherboard / CPU combo is a lot of money. I am wondering what the main purpose will be for your NAS setup? It seems a little top heavy to me. But don't get me wrong. You probably have good reasons for the choice of this combo. I only like to learn from your choices.

I assume you are using the password you setup in the install? if that is still not working you will need to plug in a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the NAS and you will have the ability to change the truenas_admin password

Sorry for my confusing quote; No 2 is the appropriate one in this case. Today I found the time to do this. But I would need some help from @Dylan or @DomSmith with the interpretation of the shown result when using the lspci command. If only you can read it, A little blurry…

You absolutely need to create your own topic. From your posts in the forum it sounds like you have a some things which I will shamelessly copy from your setup =D

Regarding point 1; I was thinking of comparing the permission types between HexOS's TrueNAS UI, and then implementing those types on that second TrueNAS systems. I'm talking about the UID, GID, Mask types. Probarbly "Advanced" stuff for HexOS's target userbase but stuff TrueNAS users need to know.

This should be ready in not to distant future: https://hexos.com/blog/the-road-to-10 Read the passage: Coming Soon Our upcoming Virtual Machine (VM) Manager aims to simplify traditional and hybrid VM setups. Imagine creating a Windows desktop VM or a dedicated media player with ease—combining physical and virtual hardware for unique use cases. We’re also planning on making the storage wizard more customizable and adding SMART testing options during setup. So far i create the VM's in Truenas, and they pop up in Hexos frontpage after creation, are a few bugs, but it works. Only thing i really want, is the ability to use VM's when not on the same network. That is the only thing i really want. If my VM's break, when they finally release this feature, it's fine and i'm ok with it. We are running an beta. So far i just run a MECM (Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) lab on Hexos. And everything works fine. But would love to be able to also connect to it when i'm at work.

Hi everyone, i have a question about the health of the disks. On the main page I see this: and clicking on the red square this shows up: But if i go to the storage section it says that everythink is good: but then if i go to "view details" it shows that one disk is gone I think it's clear that i have a faulty disk and i am not reaching out to get some suggestion, i just want to report this issue. Thanks

Thank you so much @Tamaluko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also was able to get my igpu (i5-13400) working in plex for transcoding after following your instructions. The only thing I didn't follow was the new user step, so thank you as well @Master-spud for reporting 568 still worked. Was really starting to feel like I was running in circles before I found this thread.

I'm sorry, i meant i don't know if the updates that normaly automiticaly get applied are applied and that's why i wanted to know if there was a way to check the version (not 1.0 or 2.0 , ... But more like version v0.1.020425002 that you can see in the deck settings screen)

Man, I just had the worst time setting up the OS. TLDR: A corrupted drive can cause strange problems. And so can messing with the TrueNas interface. So I have a variety of old 2TB drives I wanted to put to good use. The oldest of which is from 2013 (out of my first PC) and has basically been in use constantly since then. Well, I have also known it to still work since I had it installed in my main rig up to a few days ago. Well, I also had a few strange and unexplained oddities with my pc. For example an unexplained second Windows installation on that drive despite it not having been a boot drive since about 2017. The only problem that caused, was a "select windows" screen after the boot screen. This screen survived MULTIPLE formattings and two different new boot drives, so I gave up on fixing that and lived with it. Now after that backstory to the relevant part. After I spent a day combining some old parts into something working I started installing Hex OS today. At first, everything went fine (except for having secure boot on) and after following the guide everything worked. Almost. I have even installed and tested Plex at this point. Now I wanted to see what would happen if one of the HDDs broke. so first I have a look at the storage tab and I see something weird. An unused drive. But I had selected 5 of 5 drives in the setup. it also told me I have 8TB of storage. so why does it show an extra drive? Well, in the details, I see that four of the five have a name and show me a serial number, like the extra one, but one was different. It only showed a long number and no details. weird. So I did the sensible thing and restarted. And oh no, now it shows my array as degraded, and there is still the extra drive. I tried replacing the number drive with the extra one. no luck. (but it still showed a success popup?) At that point, I resigned myself to messing with TrueNAS directly. but nothing worked. that was until I connected each drive individually and totally erased them. Whatever strange thing happened to the drive only went away after that. But this is not where this story ends of course. No, because I seemed to have messed with TrueNAS enough to cause Hex OS to have problems. setting up the now empty array worked fine. on to instaling Plex. It created the folders as bevor and then nothing. no working web interface. it did not even show as installed in TrueNAS. Welp, time to use the nice Reset and restore button. That will fix everything I think. So I wipe everything and wait.... and wait some more. but nothing happens. even after 15 minutes. the console on the server's display shows no changes. It does not show up in the dashboard. No rebooting. nothing. I try to log into TrueNAS. It needs a new password. Well, so this install is done. Back to square one. Fresh install from Boot USB. The array is fine now. Plex installes. IT FINALLY WORKS. Man, I bought Hex OS exactly to have it easy, but well, that's beta software ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ still better than pure TrueNAS. Sorry for the long rant but I got a little annoyed about all this and wanted to share the strange behavior of the array, the Whipe Everything function, and maybe even the problem with reinstalling the same app after having deleted the array. Also here's a work-in-progress picture of my 3D Printed 10-bay Micro atx Nas.

An excellent resource I have used for years is Pc Part Picker. Makes it really easy to filter for things like number of drives a case supports https://pcpartpicker.com/products/case/ I'll also shout out Sliger. They make SFF cases, and rack mount cases, and have a few rack cases with capacity for 10 HDDs in the front. https://sliger.com/products/rackmount/storage/ Also keep in mind that products like this exist! It converts 3x 5.25 front panel bays to 5x 3.5" HDD hot swap bays! https://a.co/d/a8WEwz5 (there are cheaper options too that aren't hot swap)

"Mom, get the camera!"

Need 2 storage drives minimum

I'm not sure if this has been requested yet or is already on the dev team's radar, but I'd love the ability to easily create and run VMs on my HexOS server. I primarily use Macs, and I'm currently experimenting with different Linux distros on my gaming PC (because Win11 sucks), but some of the programs I use occasionally are only developed for use on Windows. I'd love to have a Win10 VM set up on my HexOS server that I can run whenever I want so I don't have to deal with recreating it if I switch or reinstall the OS on my PC.

No, you cannot change from a RaidZ1 to a RaidZ2, this is defined once during the creation of the pool, but changing it requires to destroy and recreate the pool with RaidZ2, which will wipe all the data from the disks. If you want to have a RaidZ2 you either need to wait until Hexos supports it or create it manually in truenas and live with possible side effects in Hexos or ditch Hexos for the time being and switch to a truenas installation and migrate back to Hexos once pool migration because available some time after version 1.0.

I did a search that lead here because I was wondering if there was a need, and if so a convenient way, to export/backup extra configurations like file shares and such in case of boot drive failure. I figured that it might be automatically backed up to the pool, so that when you reinstalled on a fresh boot drive and imported the pool, it would just ask if you wanted to import the configuration from it and it would be as if nothing ever happened. It didn't even cross my mind that recovering from a boot drive failure at all would not be considered basic functionality. Leaving that aside, does this mean that someone in this situation could start installing HexOS, but bypass and log into TrueNAS directly and recover the pool that way? I don't mean in the sense that you could then continue in HexOS, necessarily, but that you could at least get a file share or something started in TrueNAS so that you could extract the data. Or is there a way to create and download a boot drive backup via the HexOS interface, perhaps? Because if the only way to make the system recoverable from both types of drive failure, is to regularly boot from another boot device in order to image the boot drive, that's... exactly the kind of jank I really want to avoid having to deal with.

Nextcloud is a big one yeah.

In TrueNas there is an option to set a sleep/standby mode for HDDs. In my experience, however, this does not work in such a way that the hard drives actually shut down reliably after a certain time. TrueNas accesses the disks too often for various reasons, even if no user data is being written. I would like to see a reliable standby option for HDDs (perhaps for an entire pool) that actually spins down the hard drives completely. My use case (perhaps a bit special) is that I have all my active data in an SSD pool and only use my hard drives as bulk storage for old data and as a first backup of my SSD pool. Therefore, my hard drive pool would only need to be active for direct user access or once a day for an automatic backup of the SSD pool and otherwise not run. But maybe there is another solution that I haven't found yet?

Not sure if others have mentioned this already, but zerotier is super important, especially for installations like mine. Most large ISPs in India either charge for port forwarding or straight-up don't allow it, living in double-NAT situation turns home servers useless without zerotier. Note: If anyone can suggest a faster solution that would be much appreciated (zerotier is fine but highly throttled)

YES PLEASE TAILSCALE!