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In case there is any confusion still on this topic, a local UI is coming...100%. We actually have already begun work (we have a docker container with the UI running at this point, but it's not fully functional yet).

Confirmation from Jon Report back if any issues.

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.

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

Creativity is like food for the "happiness center" of our brain. My natural creativity area is language, I like writing. But this computer related stuff is not far behind.

Right, we're not filtering out the messages from TrueNAS yet, so those update notifications are coming from that, not us. Safe to ignore for now. We will have OS updates in the near future with the new Activity card we are adding in the Q2 update.

I would like to see an option of an one click full disk encryption at system setup (or disk/pool or per application setup). Then it should work like in the TrueNAS interface with a warning ⚠️ about the possibility to lose all data if the corresponding password/key is not stored properly and so on... It would be preferable to encrypt all the folders below automatically too, since the title “Full disk encryption ...".

See: https://nascompares.com/2025/02/21/updated-fake-used-seagate-ironwolf-hdds-now-reported-how-to-check-your-drives/ for more background info

This is not really a HexOs issue, It's the lack of good Realtek drivers for Linux based systems.

I personally would go with intel if you plan on hosting a plex or jellyfin server. If you don't it doesn't really matter what you go with. One thing to keep in mind the network interface card (nic) on your motherboard is not compatible with hexos. the cheapest compatible one i could find is this one https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/product/WQTp99/asus-rog-strix-b650e-i-gaming-wifi-mini-itx-am5-motherboard-rog-strix-b650e-i-gaming-wifi However that one is short on sata ports. like your original pick so you will still need a hba card. you should go with the seagate exos drives that are higher end and cost less. (don't ask me to explain why its like this because i have no idea)

yes, usually people use immich here but photoprism should work too If your friend is on the same network as you it should plenty easy for them to back up stuff as well if they are on different networks, you would need to setup something like a reverse proxy for them. this can work, just the ease of it is pretty variable. I believe this can be done easily with plexamp but some features are locked behind a paywall. It does get a bit harder when you try to do this outside of plex absolutely no idea, not something i have done myself or even looked into. hexos is going to get built in vm support in the future. at this time outside of plex and immich setup most things are done manually via the truenas interface in the future more apps are planned to be able to install in 1 click

I personally think ecc isn't the biggest deal for homelabs. Easiest way to get ecc support is with modern ryzen. (I forget if older ryzen supports it)

Hey all, as the name implies I would like to see a simple checkbox to make folders available via nfs. As a bonus a list of IP ranges that are allowed to access the share would be perfect. The user mapping to the user owning the folder so that I do not need to care about permissions and just access the data via NFS could be handled automatically as a default. Please feel free to ask for clarification and to add your ideas below!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hey, yes this is possible, someone already mentioned it in this forum however I don't have any details and it might not be as easily setup as Synology Drive Client. First of all, if it should be reachable over the Internet you either need to setup a VPN or a reversed proxy with a domain. This however is true for every service which you want to reach from the Internet and not limited to the drive replacement. But once you have this setup it's easily configured for Immich and your media player if needed. Immich is great, it's a free self hosted replacement for Google Photos. Concerning Buddy Backup it's foreseen to come this year, but you need a second (Hexos) server (and hexos licenses if you want to run it yourself) to backup to. But even without Buddy Backup, local backups to another Hexos/Truenas server is easily done using the replication tasks. You run do everything on the same server, this saves you the costs of having to run 2 servers and you only need to maintain 1 server. It's best to use Jellyfin or Plex (although Plex is alienating a lot of users recently which are switching to Jellyfin) on your server with an iGPU or dedicated GPU. As long as you have a decent GPU and not a lot of people streaming at the same time, performance impact is not an issue. Stay away from Realtek NICs (they are not supported and a lot of problems reported in this forum regarding connectivity or speed were solved by replacing the realtek NIC). If you need to get a new NIC, go for an Intel 2.5 or 10 Gbit/s NIC depending on your future network upgrade plans. Intel iGPUs are great for media streaming/transcoding and you don't need a dedicated GPU just for this. Immich does leverage a dedicated GPU for Machine Learning stuff but doesn't warrant a dedicated GPU just for this purpose. You need at least 2 data drives and 1 small boot drive. The boot drive can't be used for anything else then the OS so don't use a 1TB drive for this, a 16GB SSD is enough. With 2 data drives, Hexos is creating a mirrored pool which is not expandable in size, therefore you need to create a pool with at least 3 data drives to be able to expand in the future. Stay away from SMR drives (Desktop drives or WD RED (non plus, non pro)) make sure to only go for CMR drives. If you want to get new HW or reuse your existing server, you can post the components in here and you will get help to match the parts as best as possible and avoid certain pitfalls.

JellyFin will be one of the first apps which will be added to HexOsin Q3. See Quote latest HexOs status update: Jellyfin & App Updates Coming in Q3 While we have plans for improvements to both Plex and Immich in our future, I wanted to take a moment to make a public commitment now that our next curated app will be Jellyfin. This completely free and open source solution has a sleek user interface has been a breath of fresh air for many, and I hope to even get Linus from LTT to use it in the not-too-distant future.

HexOS is officially still in Beta, and they're planning to release more by the end of the year. I know that doesn't help you now, but 🤷‍♀️ Beta. I'm in the same boat about JellyFin I gave up because it was just too much for me, and now just hanging out waiting.

I had the same issue. I had it plugged into an access point. When I instead plugged it directly into my router it showed up.

The tin snips broke my heart, Bring it to me so I can hit it with the plasma or 4in grinder lol

i figured it out. for some reason it wanted to auto use previous login info. so i guess i shouldnt use the same sever name lol. i just had to click on the "use different credentials" tab.

I believe windows 11 introduced some complications with smb shares. As a mac user i just never looked deeper into it and forgot the fix for it. hopefully someone else can point you towards the right direction

Came across something really cool in a short circuit video TLDW its a ups/psu all in one unit. The second there is a beefier higher wattage version of this, i am most definitely getting it.

I would like to show some pictures of the older case also, since they are both very stylish. This case has a bottom part where you put the Pi, then you put the top part above 😉 That’s why it looks a bit so-so in the pictures - the top part is not properly set. If I hadn’t found a wood case for the Pi I would(!) have chosen this Akasa aluminium case: https://akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&type=CHASSIS%20POWER&type_sub=FANLESS%20CASES&model=A-RA13-M2B Thiis isn’t about HexOS, I know, but either of my use cases could work like partners to my HexOS PocketNAS.

Currently I believe you can ignore all notifications like that. I seem to recall that the system is sending erroneous notifications

I don't see anything wrong 😉

After doing some reading, it seems TrueNAS does not support LUKS at all. So with encrypted datasets the data is protected when a single drive gets stolen out of a server, or returned/sold/decomissioned, but when the whole server gets stolen, it boots right up and unlocks any encrypted drives with the on board encryption keys. You can argue how big that issue practically is when the server is locked up in a datacenter, but in the world at large, that's definitely not acceptable. I hope HexOS can improve on this situation, as many home servers will be small boxes that are portable enough. It walking off is one of the more likely threats, after hardware failure and misconfiguration perhaps.

The previous owner (who had the house custom built) just had a deep freeze in there; not sure why he wanted the vent, but I appreciate his attention to quality, detail, and versatility in his design choices. Was hoping to find someone I could buddy backup my PC image with; I'm sure we can help each other out.

It makes sense, will think about it. Also I want to have a raid of max 4 disks, and if I need to expand, just do a second (HDD) RAID with new disks which I can then expand the system by swapping the disks in the future. So if I would have 4x 8TB, will swap the 8 TB disks with 20 TB in the future (example), that way I don't need to swap *all* disks at once, but can just do a few at the same time, while keeping my hardware (and software) the same.

https://www.gingerling.co.uk/hexos-its-immich-time/

Heh, no apologies, definitely needed some micro-stress reductions in this blog!! Just nice to warn people.. I'll not forget that episode of the wan show that began with a load of swear words... I was watching with my daughter who was just learning to talk 🤣

It's not so much new gear for me, but I'm looking for anything which maximises M.2 slots. I have never bothered to have or build a NAS before now, but the power available at this point is pretty amazing, so going all-flash seems key for me. I used to track how filesystems were going with tiered storage, as I planned slow spinning rust tier and a modest amount of SSD for fast tier. But these days I just don't see the need for HDDs in there, so tiered storage no longer seems necessary. I do like the idea of the Jonsbo N5 with water cooling though 🙂

"Annoncements" LOL

Howdy ya'll, I'm pinormous. My interest in computers started back with RollerCoaster Tycoon, a game that could run on anything. I was soon puzzled why other games couldn't be played on my family computer, quickly learning that not all computers have the same capabilities. As my knowledge grew, I stumbled into the LimeWire era of data hoarding and never looked back. Over the next 7 years bigger hard drives were purchased then filled, external drives were acquired then subsequently filled, heard about Plex as a way to remotely access all my content, then I finally got serious about my addiction and bought an 8-bay NAS - giving me 34 TB of useable space. This will surely be enough, I told myself, there's no way I'll fill it up. 5 years later, I found out how much of a lie that was. So I'm now diving down a new rabbit hole of disk shelves and servers. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing; so I have a 28U rack that I'll be filling with networking, power management, and whatever else I can slap in there and explore. I have 2x24 bay shelves that, once populated, should net me around 900 TB of useable space. Surely, this will be enough space. There's no way I'll fill it up. I'm looking forward to the journey of learning new software and hardware that will enable this upgrade in the coming year, with HexOS hopefully making my first real move outside of Windows a simpler foray, leaving plenty of time to tinker more with networking. When I'm not learning-by-doing, I am frequently found playing factory or driving games. When I'm not off the clock, I travel the US as a longhaul truck driver (which piqued my interest after putting hundreds of hours in ATS and ETS2), so having my own personal Netflix is a real saving grace.

I recently used the F6-424 (which barring the number of bays should be the same I think), it was pretty easy overall. I updated the ram and added an NVMe M.2 drive to install HexOS onto. Here are some things to note or consider: -There is an issue with with some of the BIOS settings for the Terramaster and how it interacts with TrueNAS/HexOS, and after changing some settings I was able to solve those issues and it seems stable. (though its only been a couple days, but the rolling restarts no longer happen) Here is a link concerning the settings in the BIOS that should be changed from someone smarter than I: -As many guides/ videos point out, you will need a low profile USB imaged with HexOS to replace an existing USB that can be accessed by taking the right side of the case off, and removing the board under it, where the memory and M.2 slots are, it is located on the underside of that board. -It was recommended that after HexOS is installed to shut down the system and remove that USB because there is a tendency for the system to occasionally attempt to boot from it after install which can increase start up times for your server. I saw a video claiming that you could use the exterior USB and alternatively get to the BIOS to change the boot order, but most people said that it didn't work that way for whatever reason and you would want to remove the USB anyways. -During this process it was recommended to update the RAM as TrueNAS, and I imagine HexOS by proxy, will take advantage of it. This is my first NAS, and though I haven't done anything beyond using it as storage/ backup thus far, I found the hardware easy to work with and if you know to change the BIOS stuff indicated in the linked post then it seems to run fine. I will say this is not the most cost efficient way to have a NAS and it comes with the drawback of giving up some ability to upgrade in the future, but if your looking for a compact solution this works well and though I can't say that Terramasters software is great, I have seen people recommend their hardware. I hope this helps.

This should work. I suggest that you first move your drives as to the new system. And I it works, then clone the boot drive. I know @ubergeek migrated his drives in a new system more then once. I you search in this forum on his name, you will find more guidance.

If you are comfortable doing it from the TrueNAS side, it’s really not all that hard, even for a beginner. I have an NVIDIA card, and what I did was: 1. Open the TrueNAS webpage. 2. On the left side of the page, click "Apps". 3. Find your Plex application and select (click) it. 4. Find and click the "Edit" button next to "Application Info" on the right. 5. Scroll down to the very bottom of the screen. There you should find "GPU Configuration". 6. If you see your specific card, check the box next to it, then click "Update”. If you do not see your specific NVIDIA card, you may have to enable the NVIDIA drivers. This can be done by: 1. Going to the Apps section. 2. Click "Configuration" then "Settings”. 3. Make sure the "Install NVIDIA Drivers" box is checked if it’s not. Then after enabling the NVIDIA drivers, you should be able to continue to step 4.

I second this, I don't hate that hexos trips out and alerts me to an unsecure drive state when I add single drive vdevs but since I had to do so in the truenas UI I clearly know enough to be able to do so, so perhaps these warnings are unnecessary as Im likely fully aware of the risks... For my specific application, I really am not interested in redundancy at all, at least not with this operating system, I have several servers deployed in my homelab with close to a petabyte of teared storage solutions were I have plenty of redundant targets and also an offsite hyper compressed archive of the vitals and also cloud targets for configs and documents were it makes a ton of sense to use expensive cloud storage... My needs for hexos is to have an easily deployed on commodity hardware hybrid open target for samba filesharing and app hosting for everyone else that I don't necessarily want to provision privileges to very very expensive resources already in place and I will also use it myself for personal use were I may want to share that space with these other people, like media and games and other files and I can escelate the backup of that shared target to a secure archive in my more enterprise setup... No I want to be able to deploy a low cost mini itx system that only has 4 3.5in HDDs and a single 2.5in sata SSD and 2 m.2 nvme targets were ill have approximately 64TB of space with the 3.5s and a 4tb sata SSD and 2 2tb nvme targets all on a low cost AliExpress special itx motherboard that has 10gb copper via AQC113 Ethernet nic and dual 2.5gb nics via Intel i226 and a basic but sufficient for the application Intel n100 chip were I have enough bandwidth to 2 nvme SSDs to act as a high speed target for que and a semi fast sata SSD for split partitioning for slog and meta and extra cache to supplement the 32gb(the board only has a single DDR5 slot and is limited to 32gb at 4800mhz) of RAM that is primarily leverage as a write cache and also some scratch space for small file muiti user access like document sharing and also space for application folders and any requisite files needed for any VM we may want to tinker with collectively and also the hexos install with be on a small 256gb sata SSD because it is only used for the base install... I'm ok with a little capacity loss by using a raidz2( I think it's called raidz2 for a 3+1 vdev) for some peace of mind that if I lose one of the 16tb drives due to failure I can replace it and rebuild the target in case catastrophe happens between the failure before the scheduled rsync opp but that only for the 3.5in HDDs I don't need any redundancy for any of the solid state targets and I'd like to not be screamed at by the command deck when it detects that there are single device vdevs in the configs and just makes them unaccessible all together so here's hoping this is remediated fairly quickly as again I understand the risks, I don't need any handholding and if I lose data due to my own carelessness that is on my and a risk I was willing to take otherwise I wouldn't have configured it that way deliberately in the harder to use truenas UI... Just sayin

I believe you need to select Follow topic underneath your post and you will get notifications. Also just found that you can Follow a whole Topic and choose the type of notifications you get.

It seems making a pool in TrueNAS completely breaks HexOS. I have a 2TB m.2 that I want to install all apps on and it just doesn't work. Quite frustrating

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It would be great to have an integration into home assistant to monitor our NAS + have automation abilities based on the data. is this something already in the works in-house? Or will we need to wait for a community integration?