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Additional Apps We’ve just added Jellyfin, Home Assistant, and qBittorrent! And this is just the beginning, thanks to our new curation process, we expect many more apps to come online soon. Intro to App Curation We've added an interface to the HexOS frontend to make iterating on apps easier and to let the community contribute their own curations. By enabling Dev Mode in Preferences, you'll unlock the Custom Script option for app installs. From there, you can tweak existing install scripts or create new ones then share them with friends or submit them to the official HexOS curation templates. Right now, the feature focuses on streamlining the app install process. Soon we plan to surface installer questions directly in the UI and automate post-install steps (such as in-app setup wizards). That work depends on the in-development Local UI project, we will share more news about this in the future. We'd love your feedback as we refine this, let us know what's working well and where you're running into friction. Official Docs We've launched a documentation site! This new resource brings together everything you need to know about HexOS, including getting started guides, feature documentation, troubleshooting help, release notes, and community resources. Along with App Curation, we are opening the docsite up for community contributions. Learn about how to contribute here. - Docsite contributions - App Curation Folder Wizard Arrives We've extended our simple folder creation interface with a new wizard-driven process that unlocks specialized use cases like encrypted folders and Time Machine backups. With this foundation in place, we're now ready to move forward on bigger features including Snapshots, Replication, and Buddy Backup. First Flight Updates We've made improvements to First Flight, our onboarding experience, to help new users get up and running with HexOS more easily. Key improvements include: - Progress Tracking: When you complete tasks shown in the First Flight modal, it will pop up again to show you which tasks you've completed and what's still left to do - Persistent Banner: A banner now lives at the top of every page, keeping First Flight guidance accessible throughout HexOS This feature is designed to make the HexOS onboarding process a little more intuitive, especially for users new to home server management. --- NOTE: This update was applied automatically. You may need to clear your cache. Help with clearing you cache is available here.

Appreciate everyone taking the time to participate in the forums. It helps us and other users. Thanks 😀

Not mentioned in the update list but my drive warnings are gone with the Q3 update. Had them in HexOS since setting up the NAS while TrueNAS said everything is good and now they agree with each other. Yay!

Awesome to see the app curation a thing now. I know many people were able to get trueNAS apps working but me lol too much for me. It'll be nice if our community who's more interested in such things can help create these and push them to the HexOS team for vetting any bad actors so that plebs like me don't install something malicious.

https://www.gingerling.co.uk/swapping-my-to-more-power-efficient-hardware-my-hexos-nas-how-did-it-go/ Hi Gang!! I've been a bit quiet over the summer as I went backpacking with my little kids in Europe. We had an amazing time but I was totally exhausted after. The above is my latest blog. the tldr is I nearly halved my running costs with a change to hardware that wasn't expensive. Honestly the kit is about the same price as what I had already paid for to begin with. Next I will finally get to running this update and be back soon with that story 🙂 Hope you're all having fun!! Anna x

You may need to clear your browser history on Chrome. I thought the deck was down for a sec because of your post and I couldn't find my server, but it turned out my Internet had gone down at the same time. Apologies to our dev team for starting a false alarm ;-).

Seems like I already explained this kindly enough. Here's my last shot. To most, no terrible product is made good by having quality and clear documentation, change logs, tutorials, release cycles, roadmaps, etc. Most casual users never even look at any of that stuff. They expect things will be obvious and just work. If they don't, they give up. What is obvious to all users, not just the most basic ones: it is painfully annoying to use any terrible product, where the developers are not given time and space to do their best work. Especially in beta, when there are big and frequent changes that periodically make whole swaths of docs, tutorials, release cycles, roadmaps, etc. obsolete and useless, working on stuff like that is an annoying waste of effort. The quality of an OS is not purely in its code, but it is mostly in its code. While one can have both quality communication and a quality product, if I had to allocate development resources of a project in beta, I would allocate them to product, not communication. Especially because bad communication can be much worse than no communication. The impetus for my comments was the fact the other people brought up marketing, and I also get why they stopped replying.

Can you put the error and some screen shots in the feedback option in HexOS so I can address it with the team please?

Fyi, Q3 update went live today along with a new docs site: docs.hexos.com We are listening to you guys!

They are currently releasing updates on a quarterly schedule. But Linus from Linus tech tips let slip on the Friday's wan show (right around the 2 hours and 10 minute mark) that the next update will be out today.

Its 1:44am where I'm at, can't sleep and also pretty excited for the Q3 update!

The screenshot below is what we see when updating the system from the command dashboard. It simply shows a basic window with very little info, if any. It would be nice to see a progress bar indicating how much of the update has been downloaded and when it will actually reboot. It would also be great if we could get an autorefresh on the page after 2 minutes or whatever.

great idea — native UPS support would be a big win, especially for anyone running Hexos in environments where power isn’t always reliable.

Hey all. Q3 update coming Monday. Bunch of other goodies and content with it.

TrueNAS has drivers for UPS (particularly from APC) built-in, if I'm not mistaken?

Ouch. The irony in that statement is not lost.