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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

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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.

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

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!

Integrated default reverse proxy for docker apps so all apps available on 443 inside home network. integrated DNS to support app name.internaldomain.com with reverse proxy (this puts all apps on 443) Lets encrypt SSL by default for all apps all user has to do is buy domain name and enter it above and all just works support for split horizon DNS consider running the DNS service for folks to allow tight integration (this shouldn't preclude use of other dns services) this is not me advocating for how to expose anything externally, that's not an argument i want to get into 😉

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

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

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

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?

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.

If this has already been answered can you reply with the link to that answer? An example would be license transfer from testing hardware to production, eventual upgrade down the line, upgrading components or replacing them due to failure with disclaimer that it would or would not require a license transfer. This leading to how to do it of course 🙂 This us my current question and if there is a forum based version to accompany it, even better!

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 😆

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:

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

Hi there! I'm uncertain about what you're asking, but right now we support Docker containers and will soon support VMs. Anything you could do in TrueNAS Scale before you can of course still do in the TrueNAS UI.

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. ❤️

Hi there! Local UI is coming and it will require a online connection for initial setup, but after that you can run and manage your server offline. Any features that requires internet (like installing apps) will not be available until the server is online again.

Hi there! We certainly would like to add a bunch of game servers, but it might take a little while.

Me waiting for the invite

D-brand Collab ?

Nice. Sounds like you really thought about your deployment. Only thing I'd consider is bumping that RAM up to 16GB. ZFS is a RAM hungry filesystem. Good luck!

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.

Regardless of Torrent Software you use or Media system you use to host movies The ability to choose what ever Torrent Software use use automatically mounts to what ever Media system you use IE qbittorent to plex (Movie, TV, Music) etc etc

What you have is great. Drive speeds and networking are going to be your biggest bottleneck. I would recommend getting a 120GB SSD ($10-$15) just for OS installation, and then another stick of 8GB RAM, and as many drives as you need for storage.

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.

If there's an iOS app, there needs to be an Android app too.

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

Can someone explain to me in detail how to change your system once your license is bound to specific hardware? I'd like to beta test on a different system and make the migration to my main server once i find everything runs decent. do i have to contact support or is there some button to click to unlink my hardware? thanks.

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.

Came from the LTT video and just had the simple idea of an option in the settings that allowed people to specify what level of technical proficiency they're at, be that more a technical person who just wants to simply get on with things versus someone who is new and isn't sure what certain technical jargon might mean (ie. What's a manual IP address do?). Depending on what technical proficiency they're at, you could add additional warnings/information before updating configurations that a less technically-inclined user would struggle to troubleshoot (eg. Changing between DHCP network settings vs manual settings which may seemingly "brick" the system to some users). I'd imagine given the potentially wide range of users HexOS could be useful for, such a feature might come in handy. Having this as a separate setting (potentially called "Additional warnings") or as a group of settings under "Guidance Settings" would mean that tech-savvy users don't feel like they're having to battle with the system to get it to do what they want whereas less tech-savvy users don't feel worried about bricking their system.

Yes. We’re using ZFS. And hopefully make it so simple you won’t need to read a book about it 🙂

This!