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Hey all! We've published a new blog post sharing some of the development work happening behind the scenes at HexOS. This time, we're highlighting our new end-to-end testing suite which is going to drastically help our development moving forward. Checkout the new blog post for more details! The docsite has also been updated to include two awesome user created guides regarding Immich. To be fully transparent, we are still figuring out what exactly the HexOS official solution looks like, but want to provide you with as much support as possible in the meantime. docs link: guide by @Forsaken (hub link) docs link: guide by @G-M0N3Y-2503 (hub link) Here is also a guide directly from the Immich community. If you have more specific questions/issues with Immich please put them in the Immich support section. You may have also seen that we are hiring! This role (along with our end-to-end testing) will be crucial for keeping up with apps and staying ahead of issues like the one we saw with Immich. Thank you to everyone who applied! We’ll be conducting interviews soon and are looking forward to chatting with you all.

Looks like we have 25.10 in the wild (https://forums.truenas.com/t/truenas-25-10-0-is-now-available/57343), hope we can see a HexOS update based on this soon...

here are some low power server builds (not necessarily on hexos/truenas) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18LcSzsNnjp10VI-odvwZpQZKv_NCI/edit?gid=0#gid=0 These are just some general things to keep in mind you can can expect each hdd and ssd to add 2-7w at idle. not using a discrete gpu will save you 10-20w at idle keeping peripherals unplugged (monitor, keyboard, mouse) help a bit old amd cpus have trouble if c states are enabled. (c states are kinda sorta low power modes) fan power draw ads up skip the rgb

Might want to have https://hexos.com/blog/ redirect there also. Navigating directly still goes to the old blog.

HexOS is looking to add an App Support & Curation Specialist to the team! Position is Full-time, Remote You will: • Help users with app issues • Approve and maintain our one-click app installs • Write clear announcements and docs • Work with developers and communities on solutions • Report and help fix issues across HexOS Read the full description: https://docs.hexos.com/careers/app-curator/ Apply by sending your experience to join-apps@hexos.com

In addition to what M said, low idle power draw doesn't necessarily mean, low performance hardware, modern high performance HW also has amazing power savings potential & idle power draw, so you don't need to go low performance, or old HW. Some easy wins are disabling unused HW/parts in the BIOS (Audio, onboard NIC if a dedicated NIC is used, Wifi etc...)

Thank you to you and everyone that put together these tutorials. I was excited to give this a try, but even with the tutorials, this seems to be a less than straightforward process. On the first guide linked, I immediately encountered discrepancies between how my Truenas was configured/behaved and how the guide assumed your Truenas would function. First, the dataset I created did not seem to have the same "strip ACLs" button shown. My permissions section looked a little different as a result, but I feel comfortable tweaking the list manually to make it match the guide. The bigger issue for me was that I couldn't get my computer (MacOS via terminal) to SSH into the Truenas server. I kept getting a permissions denied error. I tried a small amount of googling, but I'm not sure I have the time or patience to try to attempt this. The second tutorial seems a little less beginner friendly. I thiiiink I could try to figure it out, but immediately after my first attempt of tweaking the permissions, I'm getting endless "operation not permitted" errors in the terminal. This is clearly user error on my end, but I wanted to post this for other HexOS users here - I definitely feel like I am the target audience of introductory homelabber that doesn't care to tinker with these things and I wanted to share my experience for other's visibility before they invest the time themselves. Unfortunately, I think it will be a better use of my time to wipe and start over on my immich backup. Hopefully they stay true to their word and this is the last time they make this sort of change, or I will probably look elsewhere for backing up my photos in the future. Thank you again to those that took the time to try to document guides on this process!

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 🙂

We moved the blog to the docs site. I'll chat with @csmanel about getting RSS support for it.

I fixed it that night. We migrated all the previous blog posts to the doc site as well as updated the link to it from the home page.

since you are just replacing 2 drives, have you considered just plugging your 2 2tb drives and 2 8tb drives at the same time, copying over your data then removing your 2tb drives?

Could we get a forum section for install scripts? That way as a community we can post a thread for a specific app and people can share their scripts and ask for feedback? I think that'd be handy, but I don't think it needs to go in the normal Applications support forum because that might confuse people as it's definitely a more advanced thing at the moment! Thanks

Welcome Capox! HexOS license are easily transferred, so you need not worry! Many of us do have multiple licenses however, as we have multiple machines we are running at once. A local backup server, and a physically remote one for off site backups, for example.

Shott answer yes. Long answer is when you swap hardware you'll need to make sure that when you do swap you'll need to make sure that you reconfigure the new bios to point to your boot drive and turn off secure boot. I have done alot with swapping hardware in testing since the first drop of hexOs and it is still running with out any issues

Hi, i don't really know if it's possible or if it has been discussed earlier but is it possible for HexOS to display differents pcie cards information (like what card is in what slot) or direcly display the GPU informations like the usage the drivers etc a little like it is done with the cpu informations? I think it could be a great options for those who use gpu for transcoding or in VM... thank you all 😁

I think high on the list of features for HexOS would be to make recovering from something going wrong easier. Easy configuration backups and recovery, helping with snapshot stuff, importing existing pools after reinstall, etc.

I hope that one day we'll see GPU virtualisation not relegated to datacenters, maybe if Intel makes a card worth splitting up. I've looked into the software side and there are too many competing ideas that all require a lot of maintainers by the looks of it so I'm doubtful of long-term support.

yes you can install hexos on mirrored drives on the installer they give you the option

??? What future do you crazy dreamers live in? 🤪

One interesting thing is I was actually his software support contact behind the scenes (previous job) and helped him a lot with the multi seat gaming videos starting with 2 gamers 1 cpu but especially the 7 gamers one with the custom water block for the AMD cards. I had him setup remote access including a webcam that was pointed at all the monitors on the ground so I could see them light up for gpu pass through. Was a helluva project!!

Title says it all. Thanks.

https://www.gingerling.co.uk/how-i-moved-my-google-photos-to-my-hexos-nas-and-why-it-was-awesome/ This was mostly a lot of fun and has got me super excited about NAS stuff in general, I didn't realise how much of "uploading" and "downloading" difficulties just go away when it's on the same network etc. I was expecting something a bit like an external hard drive or a maybe like OwnCloud/NexCloud. The speed just blew my mind!

Having AMP (https://cubecoders.com/AMP) supported would allow users to get game servers up and running super fast and easy! I know my primary use cases for hexos is media streaming, image backups, and gaming servers. The first two are already covered with plex and immich. Just need a game server app for hexos and therefore recommend AMP!

Saw your post and I’ll add this to the list for us to curate. Seems like a good one!!

Can the hexos team confirm if they are working on an automatic update solution for Immich, or are the guides provided the final solution?

apple silicon seems amazing and sometimes i can't shut up about how it would be amazing if i could run a home lab on apple silicon or apple comes out with a gaming handheld. looking forward to hearing what hardware you end up on. most important piece of advice is before you commit to your parts list, you should post it here and see if anyone has any recommendations. so many little things to keep in mind that are non factors when building say a gaming pc.

i can ask around but no promises

hmm at this time these options can only be done in truenas ui. i would imagine at least some of the options should come into hexos ui but i will check in with the team for you

I’ve changed the default port numbers on my TrueNAS web server to free up ports 80 and 443 for other services. However, from the HexOS portal, it still tries to connect using the standard ports when interacting with TrueNAS. For example, if I try to edit an app’s configuration or launch the TrueNAS configuration from the portal, I don’t get the correct interface. It would be great if the portal could detect the configured port numbers via the API, or allow these to be set manually in the HexOS settings.

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.

I haven't used Nextcloud or Opencloud but I imagine their file management solutions are similar to Google Drive. Paperless-NGX is like the "more advanced organization" option compared to Google Drive from my point of view. Paperless allows you to ingest documents through a variety of means (upload button, watched folder, reading emails and automatically saving attachments or the email based on rules). Then it tries to apply machine learning to extract the document date and other info like who the document is regarding, what kind of document it is, where it should be stored, all based on what you have manually added metadata for. If I have a receipts document type, it will learn what I consider a receipt and assign that automatically. It also OCRs all the documents and stores the text so it's searchable later. You can add custom metadata fields like a global document ID (I'm told). You can then search, view, organize, share these documents in the paperless web UI. You can customize how it stores all these documents on disk so you can still access them outside of Paperless if you want. There are a few apps that allow direct "scan to paperless" functionality with decent cropping. You don't scan documents so each page is a file. You ingest a PDF with multiple pages normally so you would scan with your phone or a scanner, then import to paperless. Though you can ingest images and other stuff.

hmm its not something i've looked into for a while let me check with someone else.

godspeed

This is not foreseen to be done in Truenas and therefor Hexos. Hexos is an appliance and you are not installing anything on the OS. The drivers are in the kernel and you cannot easily update them. Newer Versions might support your NIC in the future though.

truly wild times i look forward to the inevitable 100 gamers 1 cpu video

This is actually something we intend to do using vfio stubbing if that's what you're referring to here. VMs are a 2026 objective for us.

Hey it would be cool to have a straight forward way to install Nextcloud (e.g. the all in one edition https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-to-install-the-nextcloud-all-in-one-on-linux/) on HexOS. I set it up myself on my homelab, but the setup was not as easy and while the software itself works great, I'm not as satisfied with my implementation. It offers a lot of features with a client that is available on a lot of devices already, essentially substituting Cloud storage, Google Calender, Contacts, Office products, Slack (e.g. for small businesses) and as I just saw even LLM like ChatGPT. This would add huge additional value to HexOS, since you easily could substitute a lot of subscriptions that way, while having enormous privacy benefits, a thing the target audience of HexOS would surely profit of. Especially if there is also a way to safely expose it to the internet.

Sept 29th or 30th the person who really administers my Unraid setup stopped over and we looked at HexOS. He said in his professional opinion, he could see what HexOS was trying to do but was surprised how much I needed to do in TrueNAS. To be clear, he says he has a functional knowledge in TrueNAS but is not an expert. I mentioned my security issues because I didn't think any apps but the ones I forced to use a certificate of any kind. We he asked for an example I chose Nextcloud. He timed how log in to to start the stopped app, how long it took to launch the app, and a couple of the addons. He mentioned the launch was slow especially since I logged in as me, not administrator. He questioned my Microsoft Office and the Talk app as they could slow things down. After removing those addons we did it again from server bootup and it wasn't any faster. He looked at cpu and memory numbers and said it was way more this server should need or use. I showed him that I had increased the CPU count and available memory Thinking that would help but not really. His general assessment was it was very slow for only two users and no internet intensive addons because copying/moving files was lightning fast. After a few more app demos he said I was right in worrying about security and when HexOS was live I need to secure every app to HTTPS at a minimum if I intended to continue running this NAS. But he also said the apps that were slowest were the ones I installed myself from TrueNAS so if HexOS gets a curated version it may noticeably improve performance. As an example he gave me what the company he was currently working with (that I retired from) launch and addon startup numbers were. They wouldn't accept an app that didn't start in half the time and while that is a full production tuned app, it has +200,000 users in the USA and another +50,000 worldwide.

Evening, or morning for some. Here is my rantings about Permissions. If asked you what an app in the app user or group would be able to do with the following permissions, what would you say? USER : READ WRITE EXECUTE GROUP : READ WRITE EXECUTE OTHER : READ WRITE EXECUTE You'd think that yeah the apps should be able to read, write, execute etc. (Before you ask, yes the user/group were both set to App), but for some god unknown reason no. it didn't want to. Then eventually after a random stripe it did work and then I realized, "hey I can't access my shows file I set up to review the work of Sonarr?" No I the user, aka the Other in this scenario, CANNOT access my files. Alright I'll just go to ACL and add, "User : ME" Me being Me the user I set up for my Truenas, "Great i can now access my shows... hey why did my TV stop playing Plex videos?" Now my Plex and Sonarr don't see and can't read my shows, Why does adding ME as a 4th user in an ACL cause it to bug out? Alright let's double check maybe my User is set to like some weird settings... Nothing noticeable let's set everyone to be Read write execute again, and for good luck, i'll add an EVERYONE full control of EVERYTHING. For some added context though, this is what I dealt with today for the last hour or so when yesterday I was tearing my hair out with the same issues with just setting up Sonarr. So here's my proposition, a simple feature for simple people. a basic toggle button for what apps see and have permission to each dataset folder.

Would be happy to read more updates. The last blog post is from May. An update every 4-8 weeks would help maintain belief in this project. Actually, it looks dead.

I know that Immich is already a Curated app, but for me, it has the big downside that Users have no e2ee and as an Admin of the Server ill be able to all Files/Photos/Videos a user has uploaded to the NAS. ENTE has e2ee and allows any file uploaded to be encrypted and not be readable by the Admin of the NAS - which is a huge selling point if I want to convince my Family and Friends to finally quit buying iCloud Storage and switch to a home hosted NAS solution. I would like to hear if the Community would be interested if ENTE gets a curated installation, and if the HEXos team maybe already has a plan to add it to the list.

I would like to use HexOS as a sort of app-server (to manage my docker) and not as my primary storage. I already have multiple dedicated separate NAS boxes (Synology and Ubiquiti) that contain my family pictures, linux isos and other data I want my applications to use. Thus, I would like to mount various remote shares on hexOS so I can pass them along to Plex, Immich and other apps. I know (and I did in the past) that I can use the linux shell, create .smbcredentials and edit fstab to mount it, but it would be amazing to have a UI for it in HexOS. Is that something that is will happen in the future? As an explanation for why I don't simply run docker compose on ubuntu - truenas (and hexOS by extension) makes configuring redundant storage much easier - I can simply install truenas/hexOS and have mirrored boot drives and RaidZ1 pool for my appdata/cache/thumbs etc, while on a regular server I would have to do a bunch of shell stuff that I don't care to learn to be frank. To be clear: I am not asking about accessing hexOS-managed drives. I am asking about accessing remote drives from other machines on hexOS and passing them to various apps.

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?

I ran into the issue that my boot drive was corrupted and I had to restore my HexOS install from scratch. I found posts that said basically just reinstall it but nothing that explained the process. I had several issues, when I reinstalled HexOS it wanted to wipe my raid, once i disconnected the raid and went through the initial setup, I had no shares. So I wanted to document this so that others with this issue find a solution instead trying to rename and recreate shares and move data between datasets. This was done after I figured out a process for doing this so sorry if I missed any steps. Step 1. Remove the bad boot drive. Step 2: Disconnect the Raid drives. Step 3: Install your new boot drive and usb HexOS install media. Step 4: Follow the standard install process, including setting your admin account and claiming your server. When you finish the setup you will not have any disks so you will name your server and just continue. Step 5: Shutdown the system. Step 6: Reconnect your raid drives and boot up. Step 7: Log in to the TrueNAS gui by going to the IP address of your server in the browser and using the credentials you set up during install Username: truenas_admin Password: <whatever you entered at install>. Step 8: Go to Storage Tab and select Import Pool. 9: Select your pool from the drop down it should be named 'HDDs' and select Import. It will take a few minutes to import and complete. At this point the storage should be detected in HexOS and you should be able to start creating shares, but your existing folders and shares will not have returned. To get your shares back you must recreate them by renaming your datasets and naming them back as follows: Step 1: Under Datasets you can find all of your existing data on the RAID. Find the Dataset you want to restore in HEXOS and note the name. Step 2: Back in HexOS go to the Folder tab and select 'New Folder' Note: you may want to recreate your old users manually or create your folders with public access and recreate the users and add permissions later. Step 3: Create a new folder with the same name as the Dataset but add a 1 (In this case 'Plex1'). Make sure to keep the array the same 'HDDs; and give it the permissions you want (this can be adjusted later). Step 4: Back in TrueNAS go to Shares and select the edit button on the 'Plex1' share, depending on screen resolution you may need to scroll the horizontal scroll bar to the right. Step 5: In the side bar remove the '1' from the Path or use the drop down to select the original shared folder, then click into the Name field which should auto update and remove the 1. Step 6 Scroll down and click 'Save' and you will be prompted to restart the SMB service, do this and your share should be updated. Step 7: Navigate to the dataset tab select the 'Plex1' dataset and click delete on the right side. It will make you confirm by typing the whole dataset path. Step 8: When this is done you should be able to refresh the folders tab on the HexOS page and see the updated folder name (it took a minute to refresh for me). Redo this for each share that you wish to recreate. Once I did this and set up the users and permissions correctly, other servers I used to connect to my shares started working seamlessly. I didn't experience this but I can imagine you may run into some permissions issues since the new users in HexOS could have different IDs than before. Unfortunately you would need to manually adjust permissions on the files and folders. P.S. I imagine minutes after posting this someone will tell me I am dumb and should have done it this way, or someone else posted better over here. If that's the case let me know and Ill point to a better example, but when I needed help I couldn't find it.

Hey folks. Just want to share the the HexOS team is aware of the IntelARC GPU passthrough issue and has a test system being used to try and ID and diag/resolve the issue. Thank you for your patience.

Since its a NAS Software, I would like to see some Data management apps like Jellyfin- for tv, movies and music media Audiobookshelf - for audio media Kavita - for book media Tandoor - for recipies Paperless NGX - for Document sorting Trillium - for Notes BookStack - for wikilike knowledge base HomeBox - for real life storage management 😉 Some reverse proxy with with SSO Other Apps I would like to see but would also be fine with hosting it via dockge ScratchMap - because its fun and I can link to immich folders Vikunja - for kanban style planning exercisediary - for tracking my weights metube to download youtube wallos to plan subscription fees

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.

I know, you've already got Plex - but I rather like Emby. Please and Thanks.

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.

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.