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Mill got me figured out, thanks y'all!

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So I saw the message that an update had been posted so i ran it and less the 8 minutes later it working fine and it found all my drives and working perfect.

Is there any update / ETA for when users who have been using TrueNAS & want to switch to HexOS will be able to import their pools inside of HexOS? I purchased the license on Black Friday & would love to contribute but have been waiting on the ability to seamlessly import my pools. I saw a post about a user importing a dummy drive & then importing them in the TrueNAS UI but I want to do it through HexOS & not do a hack method

Server has been up for ~5 days now with no issues. Thanks!

Seems like the hexos team has been looking into this issue and there should be a post on it very soon. For now can you try to update the underlying truenas os to 24.10.22 and then try the following Login via TrueNAS UI and navigate to the Network page. Observe the value for the interface IP address as well as the Global Configuration Nameserver and Gateway. The interface should show the IP address that DHCP assigned. Nameserver should show an IP address with “(DHCP)” next to it; most likely matching the gateway. Click “Settings” on Global Configuration and observe the values specified for DNS 1. Even though the value was dynamically assigned, it appears as a fixed value within the Global Configuration Settings pane. Editing the pane and clicking “Save” will change the DNS 1 entry from “DHCP” to static. Editing the pane and deleting the DNS 1 entry and clicking save will return the DNS 1 entry to “DHCP”, but only if the interface IP is also set to DHCP. If the Interface IP’s DHCP checkbox is unchecked and you edit global configuration deleting the DNS 1 entry and clicking save, it will leave DNS 1 blank and no name server will be specified. Click “Edit” on the Interface and observe that no values are specified for the DHCP IP address in the form. Uncheck “DHCP” checkbox. Click “Add” under the “Aliases” section to add a manually specified IP address. Click “Save” Observe the Nameserver still showing “(DHCP)”. Click “Test Changes”. Renavigate your browser to the new manually specified IP to load the TrueNAS UI. Go to the Network page. Observe the Global Configuration section showing no value under Nameservers. Click “Settings” on Global Configuration and observe no value under DNS 1. If it doesnt work please let me know

Hey HexOS folks. I know a lot of us are feeling both frustrated about the pace of updates and hopeful about what's coming in the future for this platform. I have always been intimidated by platforms like UnRAID and TrueNAS - so this has been an opportunity for me to dip my toes into self-hosting. That said, the pace of communication from the team on the forum, Reddit, and elsewhere has been so very frustrating. The mods here are great and do what they can but we're not just here to get a product, I'm sure I speak for more than just myself in saying I'd love to see behind the curtain a little bit as an early adopter. Please, please, please consider this a priority, because idk about the rest of you but I can feel a fair bit of frustration starting to build here.

Thanks for your feedback and I wholeheartedly agree. I have gotten some very helpful messages from another community member here who actually acts as a Community Manager for some other pretty popular products. We are planning to expand the team in the future specifically in this area. I'm confident that by the end of Q3, you'll be much happier with the frequency of communication and updates!

You need to deactivate the C-States in the BIOS for Ryzen 1000-3000 CPUs, because this is causing the crashes.

This is due to a recent update on the Truenas side that means apps require 24.10.2.2 build to work, HexOS is still running the 24.10.0 build. It will be updated soon in the Q2 update, but if you can't wait for that, you can manually upgrade your system to 24.10.2.2 if comfortable to do so. Also it's be advised DONT go to 25.0 builds.

i'm personally on 25.04.0 without any issues, BUT - i don't want to be suggesting updates to the wider user base until confirmed by the Eshtek team. we're still waiting to get a response / suggested next steps.

The Eshtek team have been made aware, awaiting an answer on resolution.

Just a comment on the question itself, ”What new gear are you interested in?” I believe this topic by @Dylan will have eternal life. I compare this to a Swedish hifi forum I take part in, where a user in September 2005 posted the topic ”What are you listening to right now?” Two simple and innocent questions started it all. ”What’s rotating on your record player right now? What’s playing in Windows Media player at this moment? ” This topic is still active now in 2025 with new posts regularly. Hifi people always listen to music 😉 And in the area we’re in, there will always be new computer gear to catch your eye. Or new software, for that matter. I believe this was like hitting the nail on the head. A reflection on a Monday.

Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) or Traefik. Both of them can be secured with Crowdsec.

@Insanittyx you should be good to go now without any more troubleshooting just log back into deck and you can claim your new server

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

Below is something you can try and if it doesn't work for you continue to reach out to support@hexos.com. Isuse= TrueNas device gets a new ip things need to be setup manually in the TrueNas interface. Accessing the Network Settings: Go to the TrueNAS SCALE web interface and Navigate to the "Network" section. Once in there you need to update the ip information. We've found the the DNS Servers and or the Default Gateway are set to the old one. Update it to your new one. An example is if your new one is 192.168.3.X you need to update both to 192.168.3.1. Make sure to save the changes and reboot in TrueNas. HexOS then should have internet and be able to see your hardware. Thank you, HexOS Team

Yes make mkv can run on hexos but at this time it will have to be installed via the underlying truenas interface. However i suggest just running it on whichever machine is stronger for convenience purposes. Here is a guide to install it on truenas https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/s/FyNpLmWfYi

it isnt exactly what you want but the truenas app catalogue does list it when there are a lot of users for an app https://apps.truenas.com/catalog/

1.0 is still planned for this year but it could mean 12/31/2025 nothing more specific has been announced at this time

Hello, I successfully installed HexOS using UTM on macOS with an Apple M3 CPU (ARM). UTM, which is built on QEMU, allows you to emulate* a different architecture if you’re running something other than ARM. In this case, it was used to emulate x86_64, which is required for HexOS. Notes: • Disable UEFI: Ensure UEFI is disabled in the hypervisor template. • Use BIOS: During the HexOS installation process, do not enable UEFI; choose BIOS instead. • Add Pool Drives Later: Pool drives (IDE) were added after the initial setup. If this step is not followed, the deck may not be able to locate the local server. • App Installation: Apps were added via the TrueNAS interface because the HexOS installation was failing at 60%. • Hardware Settings: • Architecture: x86_64 • System: Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-9.1) (q35) • Emulated Display Card: virtio-vga-gl (GPU Supported)

Getting there, these are what I have running at the moment. iX App is owncloud running, that took about 30 hours and 4 different AI chat bots mainly. There wasnt much out there to help with getting it to run. Why owncloud and not next cloud. I had next cloud installed, didnt like it. So I tried owncloud which feels tidier and more refined and it does what I want it to do. I would love to try and make an install app for it (if your listening hexos people and turenas people) . Whats next, reverse proxy so I can access it all securely from the outside. I did have something like jellyfin.home working with https for my local, however the tv doesnt like it. Computers are fine.

So I've been having issues with this for a few weeks. I will install Immich and it will do one of two things. It will install and start deploying but just spin on deployment indefinitely. I let it go for nearly an hour one day. It will install and then say it running but then I can't access it when I click launch, it will just say unable to connect. Then every so often it randomly says "deploying" again for a second or two and then it goes back to saying running. Obviously I've restarted a few different times to see if that would help but that didn't help. I use Firefox as a web browser but I downloaded and tried to access it in chrome and that still didn't work. I am unable to find a version to check and make sure that I'm running the most up to date version of hexOS and I do have a notification in the notification dashboard saying a system update is available. go to system settings -> update to download and apply the update. When I go to settings there is no update button so I assume that it's up to date? I use Plex on a daily basis and it works pretty flawlessly. I'm not sure what other information you may need, I'd appreciate some help.

First of all, it's a pleasure to be part of the community. I apologize if someone else has already written this, but I was looking through the posts. English isn't my native language, and I didn't see it anywhere. I understand that hexos is a custom TrueNAS ISO. It would be nice if, during installation, it showed things like disk startup, updates, and user loading. On the other hand, like many others, I had issues moving the server from one network to another, claiming a server that had already been claimed, or other things I had to do, such as commands or even a fresh installation. I think it would be very useful in the TrueNAS panel have an app from day 0, called "hexos app" or "hexos conection," etc., that handles several things, such as: You can log in and out of the account, information about that account and the connection to the online panel, It can update the device's internal IP to the online panel, shoh public ip, etc You can also add features such as DDNS, factory reset, I also saw that Cloudflare tunnels were recommended. This same app could provide a service similar to "zero trust," capable of solving the problem of not having to touch the router to provide a tunnel to the online panel and having tabs with the services that are internal to our local network. future familiar conections, etc Well, other than that, I like where development is going, I hope. I'm looking forward to the new changes and I send you all a big hello.

Hi Duncan! I believe that community involved/led app curation is planned, but it is not available yet, as we are still kind of early in the development cycle.

Ignore me, it looks like everything is now back up and running 😅

it might work but jgreco, the guy that wrote the truenas 10gb primer, called it garbage. yup nvenc should be more than adequate for plex but we usually recommend intel cpus for the lower power draw vs amd cpu + gpu. I get not wanting to deal with 13th and 14th gen. its why i usually recommend 12th and older or the new core ultras. How much it matters really depends on your power costs, for me with my shit rates itll cost me close to $40 usd a year just from gpu idle costs. if this is your OS drive, i would recommend spending less and getting a smaller drive as OS drive doesn't really benefit from being larger than 16gb as the rest of the storage is locked out. you can save your self a bit of money getting arctic p8 max or p8 silent fans, both highly rated. 80 plus efficiency means almost nothing for us homelab nas users as our systems will be at idle most of the time. Check out this article of best psu's from the ppl that do the cybernetics ratings You want to scroll to the graph for idle 20-80w power at 230v (assuming your are in australia) and just find whatever has the most efficiency. in general psus that are rated for smaller loads tend to be more efficient at 20-80w

I've been on 24.,10.2.2 for some time, no issues and no conflicts with HexOS. It's Fangtooth (25.04***) that you need to stay away from for now.

So, I installed version 24.10.2.2 and was able to install Plex, but Immich stopped installing at 60%. Before doing this, I backed up all my files on the server to my external hard drive, so everything is fine. I think I’ll wait for a response from the Eshtek team, and in the meantime, I’ll reinstall HexOS.

Hi, I had the same problem but solved it by updating TrueNAS through its own panel. My situation: Fresh install of HexOS, tried to install NextCloud but had the same issue as described above by Chrizzle. I logged in to TrueNAS panel and updated on TrueNAS SCALE ElectricEel 24.10 [release] Train to version ElectricEel-24.10.2.2. Afterwards I successfully installed Nextcloud without any issues and HexOS deck is working perfectly too.

I had the password issue back in the day when I uninstalled and reinstalled immich. At that time, my solution was to uninstall, remove the folders created for it, and then reinstall. That way it started with a clean slate and was able to set the password for itself. Given that installations, or at least updates, are a bit broken in general at the moment, now might not be the best time to sink a lot of effort into this. But the errors listed in this thread so far do not seem related to those issues, so I guess there might be hope.

Can the Eshtek team confirm that we can just update from in truenas?

For completeness, at least in Australia, the remote UI is very slow, which is another reason for this. I understand a remote-hosted server will always be necessary for some of the niceties of "just works" (HTTPS certificates/Servers through firewalls). But it would be good if it could hand off in some cases to a peer connection, like with WebRTC ICE.

@freid, please keep us updated. You are one of the first who can play with the WTR MAX! I am really curious about your experiences with this device.

yes Kinda sorta. adding a m.2 ssd as L2ARC will automatically cache. the most used files and speed up the performance when reading them. A special VDEV will also speed up the entire ssd to a certain degree especially when you have thousands of folders with thousands of files in them like what i'd expect from database workloads. However its not actually tiered behavior

@Dylan, another SFF NAS device: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150

You can do it now through the TrueNAS console itself (not HexOS Deck). I just configured one this morning for Dropbox. Once you login to the TrueNAS console itself, to to Data Protection and create a task for Cloud Sync Task. They have premade layouts for Backblaze

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 think this is especially important during a beta where we're encouraged to not have production level expectations. If I'm supposed to test out HexOS, the lower the bar to try, the better. I don't want to tear down and split a real NAS or build a second to test. Let me take a little 1 drive used mini PC and let me mess about.

Short answer: no You'll need to resort to using SMB, NFS, or Rsync over the network to copy from the USB drive to your TrueNAS ZFS pool. See also: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/is-it-possible-to-copy-data-from-external-usb-drive.115693/

Here is a good jumping off point: LINK

I'm in favor of making it possible to add a one-drive pool. However, it should be a solution suitable for multiple user groups. Users like @theking8713 know what they're doing and should have the option to create a pool with a single disk and disable warnings. Less experienced users, on the other hand, should be made aware of the risks of a one-disk pool. Creating such a pool shouldn't be too easy either, as the risk of data loss is significantly higher compared to multi-disk pools.

Thank you!!!! I had seen references to this .tmp file issue but did not know how to get to the file.

There's a thread already with this issue HERE, but i also posted about my fix as had the same issue when i moved my server to it's remote location. Try those steps and see what happens?

Have you seen any of the addons? https://apps.nextcloud.com/ Photos, Office, Contacts, Calender, the standard stuff. But then there's Talk for Video Calls and Recipe Book to name a few

I hope Home Assistant integration is pretty high on the 'To-Do' list given its prevalence in the community and seemingly frequent pairing with TrueNAS. It'd be my first request as far as home automation handling goes after some searching

I also totally agree. Nextcloud would be very high on the list of apps I would want in HexOS.

Resilio is so useful, I really hope it is included in a easy workable form.

I've mentioned it before on Reddit, but Unifi Console would be very handy.

Resilio Sync I am aware there is an "app" for it for TrueNAS. However trying to get it setup is ridiculous. I have tried every permutation of settings to get it working. Failed every time. The only reference that I could find to get Resilio Sync to work on TrueNAS is in Japanese and there's NO sub titles for it.