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I’m hoping that Tailscale support is also in the works - 🤞yes?

I think it only right that multi factor authentication on accounts be something that gets implemented relatively quickly. The simple Username/Password for the account is very 90's With HEXOS being relatively new and gaining a lot of attention. Last thing you want is negative publicity due to weak security posture. some sort of MFA should be standard option.

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.

Yes, this is confirmed. Its why we went through such pains to make a responsive design for the UI/UX 😉

GREAT QUESTIONS! Answers below: When future versions of TrueNAS are released, we will test them internally before we make them available via an update mechanism within our UI. Most updates should be able to be applied immediately, but in the event we find a reason to delay the update, notice will be provided to the community. As a more direct question, we think most OS updates will be doable within 1-2 weeks of their TrueNAS SCALE release. You can disconnect us from your server at any time and just use the TrueNAS UI if you want. However, the "install" is still a HexOS install at that point, pointing to our app repo. If you want, you can reinstall TrueNAS SCALE native on your boot device, reboot, import the storage pools we created under HexOS, and continue using TrueNAS natively from there. Yes. If you do things that are destructive, they will have destructive impact ;-). To be clear, there is no safety net when you're navigating in the TrueNAS UI. No bumper lanes there to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot, so the TrueNAS UI is "Swim at your own risk!". We are a replacement management interface for TrueNAS SCALE. The primary focus in the early beta is ease-of-use. Longer term, we will build a docker container that will side-load with the OS to add additional functionality not natively available or part of the out-of-the-box TrueNAS SCALE experience. Buddy backups is a great example of a feature that we are building that will leverage technology in TrueNAS (e.g. replication), but will wrap it in simplicity and marry it with a service that makes connecting to other users far more automated. The app repo that HexOS points to is a clone/fork of the app repo provided by TrueNAS themselves. This allows us to continue to build out our app library independent from them, but also allows us to incorporate anything they do with relative ease. There is no method to adding additional app repos within TrueNAS (nor HexOS), but we do intend to support loading something like Portainer (or another equivalent) for advanced users that want to add 3rd party containers. The command deck will be required for certain functionality. It will ALWAYS be required for initial system provisioning. The main reason is that the HexOS installer does not include our UI and it never will. Instead, the local UI will be loaded via a Docker container that we will install after initial system provisioning. Think of it similar to setting up an iPhone or Android device. You need the Internet + a Google/Apple account to get going, but then you can turn on airplane mode and do whatever you want. Same idea here. The latter (when you receive the early access invite). I updated the terms policy to reflect this as well as it wasn't clear.

Just a list of apps that jumped into my mind. Home Assistant Code Server Heimdall Tailscale Cloudflared Transmission qBittorrent SABnzbd NZBGet AdGuard Pi-hole Plex Jellyfin

i currently have a truenas scale server, which does what i need it to do, but is a huge pain to work with as an amateur. i bought the beta because i love the idea of having a simpler gui on top of the rock solid truenas base. i don't have the time or the hardware to spin up a second server running hexos to participate in the beta right now, but i'd love to be able to switch over to hexos eventually. therefore, having some method to "upgrade" from truenas scale to hexos eventually would be much appreciated. a nice way to do it in truenas's gui would be best of course, but i'd settle for a good written guide. as long as i'm able to bring over my existing datasets, i'll be happy. i don't think this is a priority feature to develop during the beta, but i'd like to see it eventually.

NginxProxyManager and Tailscale are great but I'd personally love to see a built in setting for Cloudflare Tunnels. I recently did a setup for UpTimeKuma, which has it built in and it was gloriously easy. I can see how it might overlap with your paid business model but just throwing my coins in the wishing well.

As a fellow Tailscale enjoyer, this was my first thought when I heard about HexOS, "But does it support Tailscale?" and I can confirm it does! Currently, setup requires use of the TrueNAS UI, should be fairly safe but your mileage may vary. Step 1: Login to TrueNAS Go to your HexOS deck -> Settings -> TrueNAS. Or navigate to your NAS's IP in a web browser https://{nas-ip}/ Sign in with username truenas_admin and whatever password you created during setup. Step 2: Install the Tailscale docker app On the left sidebar, go to Apps. Then click on Discover Apps in the top right. Search for Tailscale, click on the app, and hit install. If this is your first time, a warning will pop up. Tick the confirm box and click Agree. Step 3: Configuring Tailscale Do not touch any settings unless specified Hostname* - Set the hostname you would like, this is the name that shows in Tailscale and is used for MagicDNS. This does not affect your system hostname and can be the same. Auth Key* - Generate an auth key for Tailscale, don't use an Ephemeral key, it can one-time or reusable. Paste the whole key in this field. For more info: https://tailscale.com/kb/1085/auth-keys#generate-an-auth-key Accept DNS - Leave disabled, but if you have a specific use case this is safe to enable. Advertise Exit Node - Leave disabled, but if you have a specific use case this is safe to enable. Once you've inputted those settings, select install at the bottom. Step 4: Verify Install Check in Tailscale if your machine is listed with the hostname you set. Try pinging from another Tailscale client Try accessing the TrueNAS UI through MagicDNS If all those work you are good to go. Enjoy scaling! Please let me know if you got stuck or have issues so I can update my instructions.

Hello, I hope to see tailscale and setup guide for it on day 1, I believe this is one of the main apps Or Tailscale not here due to their partnership with Unraid?

Please enable 2FA support for accounts.

Love to have pi-hole as an app. I have a skill (bit like Linus) that just updating Ubuntu OS (which I run pi-hole on because it’s supported) randomly breaks the OS and often requires a full reinstall to recover. tad annoying so having this as a simple app install would save me time and fear of this random faults. /FAZ

Hi there! Hardware Passthrough is coming with our VM management.

Does the Plex application enable GPU pass through? If yes is it complete or partial? Most importantly is it easy to setup?

Hi, today i bought the LT license and asked myself if there may be extended features for hosting gameservers like Minecraft, Left4Dead, Ragnarok Online and many more older games. I`d like to bask in nostalgia and try my best to "relive" better times 😆 So my question is: Is or will there be any kind of support/features explicit to hosting game servers. Best regards Clixxi

Not something I've seen mentioned other than the support for a VPN (WireGuard?) Being able to integrate into TailScale with their docker compatibility would be nice and something I currently use in my existing setup for security and remotely accessing resources, utilizing their ACL rules to limit access. Would be a nice consideration, I'm sure this won't be simple but a nice to have 🙂

Hello, I would appreciate seeing: 1. Radarr 2. Sonarr 3. Prowlarr 4. Overseerr 5. Tautulli 6. Bazarr

I not a big user I'll probably only use qbittorrent and jellyfin

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?

Updated our terms page to be more clear: Hardware Transfers HexOS licenses enable users to claim servers for management. A claimed server deducts an available license from your account. If you wish to move your license to a new server, you must first disconnect the server from HexOS, which will return the availability of the license for claiming purposes.

Would be wonderful, if there's a way to easily setup NAS as a cloud NAS, so i can hopefully access it from anywhere and replacing gdrive/onedrive that i'm currently use. Even though i'm tech enthusiast, often i can be lost when setting up NAS as personal cloud storage. Especially when my home (and many others) ISP doesn't offer public IP (multiple NAT). Hope you can adding this to the future development as soon as possible. Can't wait and very exciting.

Nextcloud would be great to have. I’m looking for an alternative to Google Workspace and it seems like Nextcloud might be a good option.

Don't worry, I know this is like talking about the castle at the end of the journey before we even take our first step! I wanted to start this more as a discussion/casual poll of our most wanted apps, however, so that when it comes time to expanding, there's a list of ideas/feedback ready to go! I'll start - I really want Tailscale support, be it natively, or official-unnoficial testing of the FreeBSD compile (if HexOS is built on the FreeBSD CORE image and not on SCALE - but either way!) that works on OPNSense/pfSense, or even in collaboration with Tailscale themselves. I think FreeBSD really needs some love to bring it more seamlessly to FreeBSD platforms and this is a perfect place to start, and if it's SCALE based, then I guess just testing and validation to make that oh-so-ideal one-click app deployment seamless! Bonus entry; HomeAssistant support, but both ways. if HA can be set up ON HexOS, AWESOME! I think, though, that it would also kick butt if HA could connect to HexOS and get info from it; drive health, usage, CPU util/temp, stuff like that! Big thanks to the Hex team and really looking forward to using this system!

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For those who don't have a buddy interested in HexOS but DO have access to a secondary location it would be really nice to have a stripped down/feature-limited install that only functions as a backup box without having to pay for the potentially-prohibitive cost of a secondary full license. It would be even nicer if we could configure a backup on another machine as an application to allow for backups on other operating systems, low power setups on ARM or RISC, etc. This is a game-changer for those who have rolling blackouts/power outages/solar-battery/cellular. Failover to backup would be amazing as well. Main system down? Data goes to the buddy backup and then duplicates to the main system when it comes back up.

+1, and maybe passkey support?

Would love to see: Jellyfin Jellyseerr Sonarr Radarr Prowlarr PiHole Home Assistant

Hey all, as the name implies I would like to see a simple checkbox to make folders available via nfs. As a bonus a list of IP ranges that are allowed to access the share would be perfect. The user mapping to the user owning the folder so that I do not need to care about permissions and just access the data via NFS could be handled automatically as a default. Please feel free to ask for clarification and to add your ideas below!

Hey all, similar to what TrueNas offers out of the box as the multi-user Time Machine option, I would like to see Time Machine Backup support for macOS devices. This could be a special type of folder for that special purpose only where settings are locked in and only user access permissions can be set as with any other folder. Hope to see this implemented at some point together with a quick tutorial on how to set up the backup in macOS with automatic drive connection on system start and so on. Would make the whole process of setting it up very easy for everyone. That feature would make HexOS a real alternative to the mac mini as a home server for "all-in on apple" people. Please feel free to ask for clarification and add your ideas!

Home Assistant Server Traefik PiHole TVHeadend Antennas (to use TVHeadend with Plex) Cloudflare Authelia (all apps tied together with a neat SSO) Heimdall or Organizr Wireguard Calibre and Calibre-web NZBGet Readarr Bazarr qBittorrent Sonarr (more than one instance) Radarr (more than one instance) Ombi the open source versions from Synologys Photos, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Download Station, File Station, Surveillance Station, Hyper Backup a way to monitor all the things and get messages on the phone i would like to get away from synologys restricted hardware and xpenologys fear for updates

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+1 on this! and maybe passkey support as well?

Second on Tailscale and HA!

Someone copy and pasted from an AI ;-). UPS support is definitely something we want to do, but will likely come after the 1.0 release.

Sorry, if this has been asked before & posted elsewhere. Would be handy to have app support for steam caching, especially for big/medium family's/house hold share. I can understand this will not be on the radar as yet, while sorting other issues out/beta etc

It would be very interesting to have the option to have Bitwarden as a running app and with the expected access from outside of the local network access it.

It's a must if I am to use this as my new NAS software. AI training and streaming need them.

Hello, I'm contemplating buying a lifetime licence, but before that I have some questions Sorry if answers are already available elsewhere HexOS is currently based on TrueNAS Scale 24.10. When 25.04 and future versions are available, will we be able to update TrueNAS directly, or do we need to wait for HexOS to be updated first ? If so, how long do you expect before HexOS gets updated ? Can we just remove HexOS to revert to vanilla TrueNAS, or would that require a fresh install ? Can some settings be exported to that fresh install to not start from scratch ? You mention we can always use the TrueNAS UI instead of HexOS UI. Is there a risk that changing settings directly on TrueNAS breaks things in HexOS configuration, or vice versa ? At first, I thought HexOS would only be a new user friendly GUI on top of TrueNAS Scale, but it seems you also plan to add new features. I have no experience with TrueNAS Scale, so I find it hard to understand what exactly is new from HexOS. From your 1.0 roadmap for example, how much is new added features that were not possible on TrueNAS, and how much is improved UI/UX or ease of use ? You currently list two apps, Immich and Plex. Do we still have access to Official/Community Apps from TrueNAS ? Can there be a conflict between different sources for apps ? When available, will Local UI have feature parity with Command Deck to configure my local server, or will some settings still require to use the online version ? Any and all purchases are subject to a 30-day refund policy. Do the 30-day timer start at time of purchase, or when we receive our early access invite ? Thanks

I would like to install Nginx Proxy Manager, DuckDNS, the Arr's (Sonarr, Radarr etc.), Jellyfin etc. If these could be direct app installs, this would be great.

The whole purpose of a NAS to keep data secure and resilient to data loss. Currently there is no way to backup and restore applications. Application Backups/Restore should be plug-and-play. Thoughts: First party implementation Simple Application independent Backup and restore applications Granular restore/backup individual applications Restore applications even on a new Hexos system from backup End-user should be able to browse application data through a file explore Breakaway from ZFS mindset like snapshots (abstracted away behind an advanced menu) and give users a simple traditional backup and restore option.

Im looking to install a Jellyfin server on my HEX os server, will this be an app?

Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr

Did not see anything about LXC support. I have been using that in Proxmox for multiple services. Even if it is in a VM that has GUI supported LXC options that would be a good workaround. Having the options to do DOCKER, LXC and VMs would be amazing to have out of the box.

I have tried several NAS Systems before, none of them had a official good functioning mobile app, where i could quickly check basic stuff on the fly. Stuff like Updating Apps, restarting containers / VMs, restarting the entire Server, only basic things like this would be awesome. With the Management being Cloud based right now, it should not even be that big of an issue i think.

This

This and/or integration for AMP by Cube Coders. I have been using this on Windows but having that integrated would be totally sweet.

Would love to see Jellyfin and NoIP Ddns!

Home Assistant, Tailscale. It would be super cool if there was a one-click install for game servers as well.

I recently set up a Truenas server and it functions but I was wishing it had a more scripted set up for each aspect of it. There are many parts of Truenas I do not use as I am unsure of configuring those pieces. Looks like Hex OS will do that. My question is, will there be a migration process to convert a Truenas server to the Hex OS environment without losing my existing Truenas raid array? I really would not want to reformat the drives and have to copy the 14TB of data back over again.

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