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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.

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

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.

+1, and maybe passkey support?

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.

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.

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?

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!

Plex is quite nice and all but I would like to use Jellyfin. In the past, setting up a good Jellyfin-Install with hardware acceleration can be very frustrating, so if that could be made easy, that would be a godsend.

Your "old" server does not have to be online to disconnect/ un-claim it. That server will show as offline on the command deck, and there is a button right there to disconnect. Like this:

Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr

Hi Enrique, Licenses are easily transferable between servers by "disconnecting" the server via the command deck, and then claiming the new server.

From the roadmap: I understand that this is a firm architectural decision as of now, and due to the Hexos licensing structure, likely a necessary one. However, I would consider the phrase "lifetime license" to be philosophically incompatible with online validation. Possibly I'm merely arguing semantics - and this is certainly not a sticking point for me - just something worth thinking about. Excited for beta access!

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

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

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

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!

Hi everyone! I wanted to create this thread as a friendly space where we can all introduce ourselves and get to know each other better. Whether you’re new to the community or you’ve been here for a while, feel free to stop by and tell us a little about yourself—your hobbies, interests, or anything you’d like to share. I’ll go first to kick things off: Hi, I’m Stefano 🙂 I’m a tech enthusiast and a bit of a nerd. I absolutely love exploring new technologies and working with Linux, especially when it comes to configuring servers. Experimenting with different setups and solving technical challenges are some of the things I enjoy the most. Outside of tech, music plays a huge role in my life. I’m a big fan of jazz and R&B for their smooth and soulful vibes, and I also love metal for its raw energy and power. My taste is pretty eclectic, and I enjoy discovering new artists and sounds. I’m always curious and eager to learn, whether it’s about technology, music, or something completely new. I’m looking forward to meeting all of you and hearing your stories—so don’t be shy! Jump in and introduce yourself. Now it’s your turn! Feel free to share as much or as little as you’d like. We’re all here to connect and learn from each other. Welcome aboard!

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?

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

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.

If I currently have a pool setup in TrueNAS will HexOS recognize it so I do not have to migrate my data to another server?

I would like to run Home Assistant (HA) as a virtual machine (VM) on my Hexos server. Since I am not planning to purchase new hardware, I cannot switch until this setup is in place. Although I could temporarily use a Raspberry Pi, I prefer not to downgrade. Please note, I am only interested in the VM version because the Docker version does not support HACS. I use HA primarily for HACS, while Hubitat handles automation and device onboarding

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.

Hoping they will support the rr's, radar, sonarr, lidarr... Not gonna list them all...but sure hoping they will.

WOOOOO! Howdy y'all!

Did everyone get receipts in a color scheme that's extremely difficult to read (white background, light gray text) or just me?

Hi Folks, We have had a number of reports and threads regarding the forum's downloads feature allowing all users to upload files. That feature has been disabled for now. Thank you everyone for your care and diligence in reporting these issues!

Download functionality has been disabled.

+1 for native Tailscale support Tailscale could also be implemented for the upcoming "buddy backup" feature as I've heard it referred to. Considering the important parts of Tailscale are open source it could even be implemented without either user needing to have a Tailnet and HexOS operates as the coordination server. Forking off of Headscale could be an option too, just thinking out loud.

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

Tailscale delivered in an Ansible deliverable that unpacks through HexOS is my vision. HexOS is the killer app for Tailscale, and vice versa.

I think they are working on a host of Docker images and/or apps to be supported out of the box and this is a good idea. In the mean time you could use docker in the TrueNAS dashboard and try out lancache.net I have not used this personally, but it looks like it supports steam, battlenet and epic.

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

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+1 on AMP

I own an AMP license and would love to see it in the HexOS apps too

This!

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

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

I like the idea, but an important thing to consider is that cloudflare tunnels are not made for transfering big files or streaming high bitrate videos. All traffic goes through cloudflare and costs them money. A solution like tailscale on the other hand facilitates peer to peer connections and all traffic after the initial connection building flows peer to peer. Here big files or streams are not a problem. Hence cloudflare tunnels are great for applications that are light on transfers but especially for more NAS media stuff it is just not suited. Hopes this gives some perspective 🙂

I'm Jens, i live in Belgium and I'm currently studying network and system administration. Obviously my interests are pretty PC-oriented, but apart from that i do enjoy listening to various music. I'm glad i found out about HEXos early on so i can start from scratch. i usually feel overwhelmed by all the available options in existing relatable software/OS's. 😄 Anyways, back to waiting for my license mail to arrive "hint-hint" 😄 catch y'all later!

Same here lol screw future me that guy is a dick 🤣

This is a big reason I wanted something like this. I do not currently have a server of any kind set up, but i do have a 4tb SSD that's about full with mainly Steam games on my main PC. While it's nice that I can use it as a caching server, it's less than ideal since now i can't store anything else locally, plus it makes going through my installed game library a chore, all because my buddies and I may want to play some random game we use to and I don't like having to re-download anything, So having the ability to set up a dedicated server means I can now clean that drive up for other projects I'm working on, and if my buddies say "hey, let's play X tonight", I can more easily download, play, then remove it when we're done.

Would love to see ZeroTier as an app for some super easy private access! Has been an invaluable tool. love the work the team has been doing and am extremely excited to get access!! 🥰

Second on Tailscale and HA!