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I believe integrating Home Assistant with HexOS could be a game-changer for the operating system, offering functionality that is sorely lacking in almost all other OS platforms today. A Home Assistant integration would allow users to monitor and manage their NAS more effectively. Imagine being able to track critical metrics such as system uptime, array health, disk health checks, and the overall status of your storage systems — all from within Home Assistant. Furthermore, adding control features would significantly enhance the user experience. It would be fantastic if users could automate tasks like rebooting or stopping/starting applications, VMs, or containers directly through Home Assistant. Additionally, automating disk spin-downs during off-peak hours for power savings would be a powerful and eco-friendly feature. The potential of Home Assistant integration is vast, and it's difficult to fully capture all the possibilities in a single topic. However, the core idea is simple: having such an integration, with continuous updates and new features, would be a major advantage for HexOS. While most other operating systems either lack similar functionality or offer only basic, limited capabilities, HexOS could stand out by providing a more comprehensive, user-friendly, and flexible solution.

Hi there! This will happen server side.

Down the Road, it would be really awesome if we would get a curated installation for Paperless-NGX! https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ Paperless is a really awesome Document Management System for all sorts of things. Paperless have lots of Small Features like full OCR and full in document text search. With a Duplex scanner, you can easly backup ALL of your paper documents and have them automatically sorted - a perfect companion for HexOS that aims to make digital backups a breeze! With a Curated and easy install, it could also help to backup analog paper 🙂

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!

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.

I checked Plex and found THIS ARTICLE but I didn't really like the way they worded certain things. But also found THIS GUIDE that looked really promising. Note, I have not used any of these so use your own judgement and good luck!

Please enable 2FA support for accounts.

Scheduled power on would be difficult, as that's typically a bios function, but scheduled power off should be trivial. That said, might be possible to utilize a sleep like mode

In the top menu under the “Activity” section

nextcloud would be nice for those wanting a google drive like experience

As a person who cannot see the screen, I want to use my screen reader assistive technology to interact with, navigate, and understand the full capabilities of the out of the box user interface of HexOS. Please ensure that the UI whether it's web based, Linux based, or a mobile app is completely navigable by keyboard, and all items and their states/values are programmatically readable by screen readers like Orca (Linux), VoiceOver (macOS built-in), NVDA (Windows FOSS). I have a career working on web and iOS applications. If there is any specific guidance or advice I can give, I'd be happy to.

I may just be dumb here, but is there a way to see an update history/changelog for HexOS here on the forum or elsewhere? If not, I'd love to see something like that worked on at some point. I haven't yet had the time to set up my own server though, so if that's a feature in the dashboard itself somewhere then I just haven't seen it yet, so that would be on me.

Hi guys, It would be really useful if if we could get 1-click installers for the most popular torrent apps like: Deluge - https://deluge-torrent.org Transmission - https://transmissionbt.com qBittorrent - https://www.qbittorrent.org rTorrent - https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent ruTorrent - https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent Thanks!

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

So I know that this is extreme overkill, and that for a beta this is probably the dumbest thing I can do, but I keep like 4 copies of everything and enjoy the pain of learning new things. Even if it can be frustrating at times. The build: Ryzen 9 7950X3D RTX 4090 64 GB RAM 5 X 18 TB HHD 1 TB m.2 SSD 1 TB SATA SSD Didn’t realize that most NAS softwares (I think) don’t work with disk drives 😅 I use it primarily for playing with AI. I’ve setup Ollama and used comfyUI while on windows. I have a code server setup so I can work on Minecraft plugins and then use Jellyfin as a streaming replacement. I’m planning on using the file system to replace ICloud as I have Immich also setup. Slowly working on replacing services I pay for with local solutions. In the meantime I’ve learned a TON on networking, data management, and docker.

hey eveyone, i am new to NAS and servers but rly wanna start with hexOs and a homeserver, but don`t know which hardware to buy. can someone give a solid advice, Case, CPU, motherboard? usage is for home storage photos and videos, no streaming or playback. thanks for your help.

Hi, Lets take a scenario where I manage three servers : mine, my brother's and my dad's. All servers are stored in different households. Lets give them these names: Charizard : my server Bulbasaur : my brother's server Squirtle : my dad's server As the family administrator, I need to manage all three servers. However, my brother should only have admin rights to Bulbasaur, and my dad should be able to admin Squirtle. I'm comfortable with admin remote (deck) access to all three servers, but the local admin should have different credentials. Although my scenario might look a little complicated, I think this will be common in many scenario when friends are helping other friends manage their system. Cheers,

Could you spend few dollars and leverage a monthly cloud plan to backup your data until you get the NAS reconfigured? Maybe something like BackBlaze?

wow ive been resorting to site:hub.hexos.com searches on google

Got it, I wanted to use an older 128GB SSD to not waste my larger ones but looks like is better if I use the more reliable larger ones

I can't seem to find a search option on here so not sure if it has been suggested or not but scheduled power on / off would be an amazing feature for me. Power where I live is expensive and I don't need my NAS on all day every day. Would love the option to schedule power on and power off at different times for different days if that's possible. I know some systems have this ability in their BIOS but my BIOS doesn't seem to have the option.

Hi there! As the lead designer on HexOS this is something I'm very interested in accomplishing! The current beta probably has several issues and we will be working to making this a great experience for all! If you or anybody else who needs assistive technology discovers any issues, feel free to send me a DM here on the forum!

Hi there! Yes, it is in the plans! You can technically switch to Spanish now, but only parts are translated.

This genius work of humor was shared to me courtesy of my little brother 😂

Off topic, I got a surprise yesterday which I was noy expecting, bought some walking shoes a year ago and had walked the soles off them , literally right down !! was in the shoe shop the other day and mentioned their were leaking water in , the assistant told me they was two warranty on them , bring them in and they would exchange them ,, So I did!! and got a brand new pair free of charge, I was gob smacked 🤯 Like I say shy boys get nothing if you don't ask haha 😆

... I would.

Two+ decades of professional IT experience here and this statement is incorrect. HexOS is just as much an operating system as Windows 95 which was built on an MS-DOS foundation just like HexOS is built on TrueNAS. TrueNAS is the engine that runs the processes but it is HexOS that makes the requests and provides a more intuitive user interface for flipping all the various controls, dials and switches that tell TrueNAS how to go about doing things. There are TONS of options available for tailoring the TrueNAS processing for various platform uses and HexOS is precisely targeting home office and small business users who have aging hardware that should be repurposed with more modern software running them to not only reduce E-waste on our planet but to also lessen the burden of having to pay out the nose for hardware that is way more than what is required for those users and make these systems more secure. That leaves TrueNAS able to focus on it's core user base of Enterprise organizations who have Teams of IT professionals who can integrate TrueNAS into their organizations just as is. That being said, nothing in this thread has precluded us from try to make these aging ReadyNAS boxes a viable option for running a barebones basic configuration of HexOS on and with Dev assistance it is absolutely possible to make an installation that could be easily deployed by some of the less tech savvy individuals who are very interested in the HexOS platform.

AMP would do this and much more. If HexOS supported AMP, that would handle pretty much any compatible game server. AMP discussion:

So, I currently run a 10yo Netgear ReadyNAS with a quad core 1.4Ghz ARM chip, 2GB DDR3 RAM and can stream 4K over 1Gb NIC. I suspect you'll be fine...at least for a bit. I like that you have the 20GB RAM. But really? Just run with it. See if it works or at least how long it'll last you giving you a chance to better identify what you want from a new build - as opposed to just buying new hardware for the sake of having new hardware. Dig? Good luck!

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

Yeah, it was a desperation move. There's just legitimately no way that I should be spending $99, and def can't $199. I know that I'm going to need this. And this was a now or never moment. I either get HexOS now, or forever be looking at it from the outside. I may have also been driven by the month long struggle that I'm in the middle of with my own NAS setup right now. I've known the pain in the pass, but is it again fresh and raw, lol. I had to cast aside shame and ask. I honestly wasn't expecting it to happen. There was no obligation on Jon's or HexOS' part. So, I was very surprised to see them thrown me a hail mary pass. Much love. ❤️

Me waiting for the invite

D-brand Collab ?

Agreed. When creating a VPN connection, have options to route specific apps with this connection, or the whole system, or whole system but exclude specific apps.

Sounds good. I always find it best to kick the tires before sinking a ton of money on new gear. Good luck!

At some point, it would be nice with a native mobile app for setting up things like smb shares, start/stop, looking at stats and etc.

8GB RAM is the minimum requirement and the maximum you can put in that is 4GB

But here there is another thread: @WhyCheese got it running with 2 GB of RAM.

From what I've seen, TrueNAS supports Vaultwarden (the self-hosted variant of Bitwarden). So I'd think eventually it will work on HexOS as well.

Absolutely guys. For this first phase of launch we went with minimalistic approach. This way we can narrow our support focus. We will be turning on 2FA in the near term.

Another vote for lancache

Its not ideal but you can set up GPU for Plex in the TrueNAS UI. Apps->Plex->Under Application Info->Edit. For Intel/ATI/AMD you can just add device and put /dev/dri for both options. For Nvidia, you will have to install the runtime and then add environment variable NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all I haven't tested this with HexOS specifically but docker is docker so it should work

Well, I guess I fall in your target group. The second I saw this on LTT, I bought a license. Not because of Linus, be what he said this would be. A simple to use for non IT people, which is me. Here is my list of wishes to see in the near future: * some torrent client or something to download torrents * automation tools for torrent (prowler or whatever they are called) * vpn tools (like set it up in hex and It automatically gets applied to all the apps and stuff, I never got this to work on my truenas with qtorrent) * plex (already there! Nice!) * photo backup for iPhones (seems to be there already, nice!) * accessing nas from external location * maybe home automation stuff.. could be fun for the future. That’s all I guess. exited to try this out!! /Haldemar

Upvoting this. I definitely think that more and more people will want to host their AI locally and while it is already simple with ollama (shout out to the ollama contributors) how you then have that always on, and integrated into other applications blocks people. The home lab seems like a natural place for this when you have a gpu

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