My question is more of a curiosity type question. I have been unable to find hardware requirements for HexOS and so would like to ask a very obvious question.
1. Is ARM Architecture supported? If so, what would be most recommended chipset?
2. Should ARM be supported, would a Raspberry Pie be a viable solution? Something such as the RPI 5...?
- I understand that External Hard-drive speed might be the greatest reason to avoid this, but with things like POE Hats and other ETH hats existing and eventually coming into existence. I do have a few use cases that I wish to experiment with.
- Mostly with creating a POE Security System powered by RPI.
- I would Enjoy having the security feed backed up into a NAS, if not fully running on the NAS.
- By using a cluster set-up, I could increase computing power (up to a certain degree before more powerful hardware itself would be needed)
- By that point stems my third main question....
3. Would it be possible to use HexOS in a Kubernetes/Docker/Cluster format? With multiple instances working together as one? Something like RPI 3 Model B+'s...?
- Some of us don't have large servers, and considering that for a simple set-up it might be more than viable to run an E-Bay machine. I understand it might not be needed or even possible to create.
- However, what about future Apps that might need more processing power to run 24/7?
- Wouldn't it be nice to just add an extra machine for computing power than storage? (I notice this drifts off from the whole purpose of the product. So creating a secondary server that simply connects to the NAS might be a better solution.)
- That being said, some people (like me) might prefer using our existing old PC's and having them all be one machine. So I am interested to know how the server license thing will work.
- I mean having two or three PC's around the house, connected via Ethernet working as one NAS would be convenient.
- Which leaves me with one final question...
4. Would users be able to publish or recommend apps? Or would there be a way for 3rd party Developers to do so?
- I mean, since I'm asking about this as a way to create a security system... I was wondering if running something similar to Blue-Iris within HexOS would be possible, Or eventually creating one or letting someone create one.
- Technically its very close to a video player with extra options to connect to external devices with ethernet/wifi and have them do stuff.
- But if extra processing power can be added to the instance then wouldn't it be possible to run more complex stuff such as Home Assistant?
- Like I said (or thought I said)... I'm just a little curious about how far we could take HexOS.
- I did hear Linus mention something around the lines of using a secure way to do a buddy back-up... but can we do it locally? (How many licenses) and would we be able to create 3rd Party Applications to expand HexOS. I mean, if I had to sum it up, that's probably what I'm asking. If we have Data, most people would like to do stuff with it more often than not.
Anyway, I'm just gonna see where things go and take it one step at a time.
Thanks for having me.
(Also... would it be possible to get Hardware Security Key support? Anyone else apart from me being paranoid?)
