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The update is ok to do. It was a minor hotfix change related to Active Directory support (doesn’t directly affect us). With activity UI in place, only valid updates should show up now. We are still locking users to the 24.10 train, but updates within that train are fine.

Did I miss this somewhere, or is it still not implemented? Considering that we are relying on your website security to protect our systems, I would have considered MFA a priority.

Hey, With Ryzen 1000-3000 CPUs you have to disable all the C-states or else the server is constantly freezing, just something to keep in mind

Yup. It's 2 x 6 wide z2 vdevs or rather it will be once my transfer is complete and i can move over my drives for now is just 1 6 wide z2 vdev I'm using rsyncui, a rsync gui for Mac My old server is barely a server. It's a Macbook connected to das. I had it run a samba server and my old jellyfin server. It's also WiFi connected so that limits my speeds Not yet, i put it off since i haven't had a power outage once since i moved here 3 years ago. But i definitely need one sooner than later. Part of the reason i kept putting it off was that the nut compatibility list always seems so daunting

just finshed building my server 64 ddr5 on amd 5 board with 8700g cpu and 15 hardrives

yes bite the bullet and use the 1tb drive for something else. i wouldn't use it for cache but you can make a single drive pool to install your apps to.

Hopefully in a few years we have this same conversation about switching over to 40gbe 🤣

one of my many hobbies includes massively overthinking my homelab so i have thought about if i am going to go rj45 or sfp 😅 I think up until i can save up enough money to purchase my own home i will be going rj45 because of slightly higher ease with less permanent setups such as running it outside uncovered. part of my homelab upgrades includes switching over every part of my network to ubiquiti devices. its not cheap but i was looking at the unifi flex 10gbe or unifi flex 2.5g

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!

2020 Mk5 Supra for me as my daily. Just a few CF bits, Exhaust and downpipe, CAI and wheels, thats about it.

I think cars and tech go hand in hand! Here's my 1999 RX7

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.

its not just slow during rebuild but slow during all operations. ahh candian dollars. you should be able to find similarly priced exos drives as well at smaller sizes.

its not a hexos issue but rather cmr drives don't play nice with raid in general. if you use raid with your drives you are not gonna have a good time regardless of os. you can still use them but they will be slow as sin if you can return then you can get a significantly better value at the same price or less https://www.ebay.com/itm/236143802502 this is in the same price range, sold by seagate themselves, almost double the size, cmr drive and a more vibration resistant enterprise drive. you can probably find even better values since this was less when i bought it a month or 2 ago.

jellyfin was announced as the next app and an template was announced too

Hi all. My $.02 is that there should be a way to echo or display the TrueNAS errors from within the HexOS management GUI. Basically, I have been trying to apply the new update(s) to my system, and it took me forever to realize that they were failing because I didn't assign enough space to my boot drive to download and unpack the update contents.

Please don't use an external USB enclosure, this is just asking for trouble, because very often they are not forwarding the drives serial number but are just giving a generic one, which means that Hexos cannot differentiate between drives and will not be able to create a pool or use those drives. Only stick with internal SATA ports and SATA expansion cards to avoid any trouble. A lot of people in here are using Jonsbo cases, which exists in various sizes to accommodate varying amount of drives. A couple of remarks to keep in mind: You need a dedicated drive just for the OS and you cannot use it for anything else. Don't waste a 1TB SSD on this, 16GB is all you need, so go for a low capacity one. With 2 drives Hexos will create a mirrored Pool which cannot be extended, if you want to extended your Pool later on you need 3 drives now to create a RaidZ1 which is extendable. If you go for the 2 drives now, 4 drives in total later, you will have 2 mirrored drives and only the capacity of 2 drives in total Stay away from SMR HDDs. If you decide to go custom built, please post your specs in here as there are some pitfalls which we can help you avoid. 🙂

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

Just make sure to avoid motherboard with realtek nics (network interface cards) To get expandable storage pools they need to be made with at least 3 drives

for now your best bet is to refer to this answer

I'm glad i didn't end up painting the case. That would have taken a while and no time. The case came in Thursday night and i worked on it for hours since i got it. I still don't even have the motherboard installed 😅 I've also spent a lot of time doing cable management and it still looks like a rat's nest 😅😅 My original plan to drill in mounting holes for the phanteks drive caddies is a bust too but my new plan is less elegant and more expensive 😅😅😅 I realized i had more free sata power and data slots so i bought more drives 😅😅😅😅 Hopefully by Monday or Tuesday i make a new update saying I'm 95% done. This iteration of my server is not going to complete until i can get a part 3d printed and 3d printing services are expensive. I'm reaching out to some friends to see if they have a 3d printer but I'm not hopeful. 😅😅😅😅😅

Hi, I have a similar issue. I installed HexOS completely new. A single Folder(also share) and set all the location to a path in the folder. I tried to install Immich but it just says that there is server error. In truenas, the app pool is set. I dont see any running jubs during installation. Can some one provide guidance on where i should look? Another note is that my folder is Private with access to one user. Also let me know if you need any other info.

10Gbps is gimmicky for most users around here. If you're not editing directly off the NAS or have a lot of users accessing it, there is very likely no need to get 10Gbps, 2.5 Gbps is more than enough. But it's still fun to watch those high numbers, so if it's worth doing (2.5), it's worth overdoing (10) 😂

Once, you do the initial backup to your new low cost, not yet existing, but already way more thought out that you like to admit , server via buddy backup or ZFS replication task, you will see and notice the full speed. After that, it's not gonna make a huge difference 😂 Also if you want a good GPU for AI or ML, used RTX3090 (non ti) can be bought for 600$/€ and likely delivery the best bang for buck. You're welcome 🙃

I forgot to post in this thread but the idle power was somehwere around 60-80w i forget but that aside im super excited, i finally found some deals on the parts i was looking for and will finally be (almost) completing my nas I ordered my jonsbo n5 yesterday and the a few more hdds i will also be trying to push the jonsbo n5 to the limit by modifying it to hold more hdds. Im not confident but im hoping itll work. new parts list below Cpu - Core Ultra 265k Cpu Cooler- Thermalright Frost Spirit 140 Mobo - Asus Z890M-Plus Prime WiFi Realtek RTL8125 2.5gb Ram - 4 x Gskill Ripjaws m5 48gb 5200mhz cl 40 Storage 3 x 16 tb Seagate skyhawk ai hdd 7 x 14 tb Seagate exos hdd 5 x 14tb Western Digital ultra star hdd 2 x 2 tb Samsung 980 pro ssd (looking for one more so i can do a 3 way mirror special drive for my main storage pool for fun) 2 x Intel Pro 5400s 240 GB (boot drive) 2 x Intel Pro 5400s 240 GB (apps pool) PSU - Super Flower LEADEX VII Platinum PRO 850 W case fans - 5x Arctic P12 Pro The plan is to drill some holes into the case so that these phanteks drive caddies will fit. I've been using my Hexos server as a test server but i think its finally time i set it up as my main machine. im going to be doing 1 pool of 2 z2 vdevs that are 6 wide and made of 14tb drives for main storage pool (later i will add triple mirror ssd for special drive) 1 z1 pool of 3x16tb drives for 2nd storage pool 1 mirror pool of 2x 240gb for my apps pool

Creating a Palworld server in TrueNAS VMs I wanted to write this out in case anyone else came across the need for a Windows Server install and couldn't find a resource for it. I pieced this together from several guides and just pushing buttons. Create the virtual disk Navigate to the TrueNAS admin page Navigate to Datasets Click Add Zvol Insert the Name, Comments (optional), and Size Navigate to Network Click Add Create a bridge for the VM to use (images to come later) In Bridge Members select your interface (eno1). Navigate to virtualization Pre-req: have your ISO loaded into a store that libvirt-qemu has full access to NOTE: If you don't allow this to have full access the VM creation will fail as it needs the ISO access to install the guest operating system. Have the virtio drivers needed to show up the disk to install in Windows. The drivers can be found here: https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts/blob/master/README.md - the stable build. Configure the VM with the following options: Leave Enable Display checked so you can login to it via Spice - it will not have networking when it starts. I gave it 2 cores, 4 threads because everything I could find on the internet said it needed that, and 32 GiB of RAM with 16 GiB as the minimum. Select the disk you created Select the bridge you created Select your installation media -we will add the VirtIO ISO later. I left Ensure Display Device checked - was unsure if needed it or not but left it there. Before booting click on the VM and select Devices Select Add in the top right corner and add a CD-ROM device and set the device order to lower than everything else (1003 for me). Boot the machine and connect with Spice. NOTE: If you miss the prompt to boot from CD you will have this screen here: Simply type Exit and it will drop you into a BIOs page. Select reset and then press your keyboard to boot from CD Navigate through startup until you get to disk selection, select Install Windows Only. You will notice on the next screen it cannot detect a disk - this is where the virtIO ISO comes into play. Steps below. Let it do it's initial setup of what it thinks you need. You will need to be selective otherwise it will hang. Below are the drivers I chose to install: Click Browse on the next screen Find your virtIO ISO and expand it. Expand amd64 and select 2k22 from the options. The listed driver should appear there now: Install the driver and the disk will appear. Next, we will install the network driver as well. Same steps as before, Load driver, navigate to the ISO, then select this option: All other drivers we can install with the guest tools from the ISO inside of the guest OS. Continue with the Windows installer. Select the empty disk for it to install it's files to. Once booted into the OS follow these steps: Navigate to the CD that has your virtIO ISO on it and double click on this file: Let it run. It will take a LONG TIME to install everything and will require you to interact with it somewhat. Reboot the server (Other:Unplanned) Install the Palworld dedicated server via SteamCMD located here: https://docs.palworldgame.com/getting-started/deploy-dedicated-server/ I hope this helps anyone else that might have been struggling with it. Massive shoutout to @Mobius for pointing out all my images were broken on my first post - finally figured it out!

Mill got me figured out, thanks y'all!

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.

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.

I would like to discussed app roadmap/priority. Items in red are high-priority. Reverse Proxy: traefik (alt options: caddy, nginx, HAproxy) Per-app integration options with reverse proxy (traefik). Dynamic DNS: ddns, cloudflared Auth/Security: authelia (alt option: authentik) App Dashboard: homepage, (alt options:, organizer, dashy, homarr, flame) Per-app integration with app dashboard. File Sync: nextcloud (alt options: synchthings) Docker Management (GUI): dockge (alt options: portainer) VPN: wireguard, tailscale Streaming: jellyfin (alt options: plex, emby, "arr" apps) This is by no means exhaustive, but a starting-point for discussion. This is based off of my own experience homelabbing first on OMV with docker using smarthome beginner tutorials, then transitioning to TrueNAS scale, using True Charts helm charts. My preference is self-hosting first and the ability to keep EVERYTHING local, then allowing cloud options for ease-of-use.

It does not break anything, myself and others have been using it this way for months

I was able to get it to work by uninstalling Plex and re-installing it directly from TrueNAS. The key thing is make sure you set up the Data, and Cofiguration Storage locations all as ixVolume (Dataset created automatically by the system) This should only take you 5-10 mins

Thats now finally the point where I will ditch this pice of shit they call software, as soon I achived to recover my data I will never ever touch this garbage again. Its not a beta, not even a alpha, its a big pile of bad code with no chance, or even intention, to work. Every single part of it simply doesnt work or even destroys things that worked in TrueNas (which is allready a buggy mess). To buy it was a waste of money and everyone is better of saving the stuff on cd or floppy disk than HexOs. Its simply a scam that got me via ltt and the, in theory good idea, in combination of the earlybird pricing....but at the end it was nothing more than a scam.

I stopped using reverse proxies in favor of Cloudflare tunneling. Edit: Not telling anyone how they should configure their homelab; I just found this to be better for my use case. If I could have a one-click reverse Proxy maybe I'd change my mind and go back 🙂

New roadmap dropped not to long ago and a template to let the community make apps Hexos one click compatible was part of it. I imagine one it is out we don't have to worry about what we get first

I didn't notice the fan control app in the TrueNAS store. It is essential to keep the system cool. I mean, I saw the setting through the shell, but in Hex we want everything simple.

I'd be happy to work with any/all commenters to help create a guide we can add to our DIRECTORY OF GUIDES - @Tamaluko Is your first post sufficient or would any additions or edits be helpful?

Honestly wish I was more help, new to this whole hexos/truenas thing... it is 100% working, plex shows HW in the dashboard when transcoding and CPU usage doesn't jump with 6 transcoded 4k streams going. As to what I did... I tried installing plex through Hexos, which made the folders and stuff for me, but transcoding didn't work despite showing the GPU, ended up uninstalling plex, and reinstalling via truenas using the default save paths that Hexos did, that also didn't work. I then uninstalled again and installed using truenas default install paths, and just adding the paths for my movie storage. Then the transcoding started working fine. I'm sure it's some permission issue in the background somewhere, but I couldn't figure it out but this worked for me. Your mileage may very lol

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.

I do have an intel A380 working with Plex, I ended up having to do the plex install in Truenas instead of Hexos and fight for a bit... but was able to get HW decoding going.

In truenas go into 'system > shell' Run this midclt call app.gpu_choices | jq Take note of the output - you need the pci_slot value, this should look something like 0000:01:00.0 and you need the uuid value which should look something like GPU-ab0fdc2d-e1f7-d2fc-54e0-5b34ff44c3d9. You can copy from shell by highlighting the text and using CTRL + Insert Then run the following replacing PCI_SLOT with your pci_slot value and GRU_UUID with your uuid value sudo midclt call -job app.update plex '{"values": {"resources": {"gpus": {"use_all_gpus": false, "nvidia_gpu_selection": {"PCI_SLOT": {"use_gpu": true, "uuid": "GPU_UUID"}}}}}}'

https://github.com/codifryed/coolercontrol

Great job on the FAQ HexOS as I think it covers the bulk of the initial potholes people could step in. I making this post to remind people this is a "Beta" software. By definition that means it is far from complete or even ready for prime time / public release. The whole point of a beta test pool is to provides developers with valuable insights into the user experience, which they can use to make improvements before the product is released to all users. (in other words, it's absolutely not going to work perfectly, nor should you expect it to). The reason we all got it for $99 is (by default) we agreed to find all the faults in the current state of the software. Although HexOS is built on TruNAS Scale, it is NOT TrueNAS Scale. Please keep that in mind when proving your feedback. Also, it should go without saying, but I'll state it outloud, It is highly recommended and should be common sense/practice to not take risks with your most important data. If you only have one NAS, and every important document, photo and video that you own in the world is on that, I would suggest you wait before you install the beta software, and or be sure to back up those files somewhere easily accessible "off the nas". Lastly, regardless, if your current nas manufacture, allows installation of third-party software or not, you should always make a back up or clone of your original/current boot drive in such a way that if the unit completely crashed, you could re-insert a USB/SSD or log in some other way (ssh, terminal, etc.) to restore it back to its original operating software. These are good practices to have with any software changes, but even more critical in testing beta software. If you don't have more than one nas to test this on, or a way to backup your data off the nas, then I would recommend (like so many have chosen to do) that you sit tight on your current license, and hold off installing in till the software is further down the road or all the way to "Production Release" (see attached image.

also, a quick tutorial how i set up Jellyfin: Create a public folder in HexOS Go to apps in HexOS, go to Jellyfin, and click Install. It will open TrueNAS UI. user is truenas_admin and password is the HexOS password. (If it sends you to TrueNAS dashboard, go back to HexOS, Jellyfin, and click on Install again) Under Network Configuration check Host Network Under Additional Storage, click Add, choose Host Path, in Mount Path is how the folder will look in jellyfin, in Host Path find the folder you created in HexOS. Thats it for the settings, click Install at the bottom Now in TrueNAS UI go to Datasets, click on the folder created in HexOS, scroll down to Permissions, and click Edit Click Add Item, Who: Group, Group: apps. (you need to scroll at the end once or twice to be able to see full list, then find apps, should be near the end, its not in alphabetical order). Set permissions like in the picture, then click Save Access Control List. Thats it for folder permissions. Go to Apps, jellyfin, and click on Web UI. Then from there set up Jellyfin as normal, when u click on +Folders you should be able to see the folder you added in Host Path, /shows in my case. Thats it, jellyfin should work as normal now, just as if you set it up on your windows machine.

I think Hyundai has some really interesting looking cars, but the horror stories of techs replacing engines non stop in them regardless of model, really turns me off from them. The IONIQ 5 looks really cool with the square running lights and it's such a unique design, but it can't sell me over the fact the engines want to grenade with just regular driving. *And this is coming from an ex-Subaru owner* (I still miss my turbo Subarus)

Currently I have an E46 M3, and AP1 S2000, and an F31 330i Touring (daily duty) The M3 is getting new wheels this spring, as well as getting odds and ends fixed up from age. The S2000 will be undergoing some maintenance, but I have to pull the suspension and reset preload on all the coil overs due to me being dumb when I first installed them when I was younger. The 330i is getting creature comfort retrofits. I just retrofitted the heated steering wheel coding/switch, and next will be an antenna and coding to run an OEM Apple CarPlay connection.

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

Nextcloud is a big one yeah.

Add: VPN egress per app (like gluetun), to only allow outgoing connections via VPN interface (for ensure that Linux ISO downloads are only via secure connections)

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