Todd Miller

Is anyone directly associated with the HexOS app looking at the current review videos in youtube? They are auto-generated on mass from your front page and possibly other sources I can't find. It looks like you are working on a product quite different from what this forum page is describing. I think you are losing both a great advertising tool but also an opportunity to do a five to ten minute video on what is going on, upcoming releases, what third quarter actually means to the company and the like. Your last post with a little more fluff would have been perfect. Public service announcements like don't update TrueNAS beyond a certain point could be useful. I understand your knee jerk reaction to say it's too much work but I bet you could work miracles with something small like this. Maybe you could get someone from LTT to make an appearance to remind everyone why they have high hopes for the product overall. Be the way, what the heck is this video? It's your web page I think but what is this guy talking about? Someone must have gotten the scripts mixed up.

I think the dev team and forum moderators understand what you are saying. The difficulty is when in a deep dev cycle, what can they report that will keep their audience happy? All they can say is "Yep we are working and making progress". We all want more but there may not be more details to be had without giving out priority secrets. And if they do say things are good and they are close we would start a clock and call the project late because we want it now. We're all in a tough spot.

The only thing that makes it harder now is I am now doing it myself. Well and though it's not harder, I used to use two 2GB and two 4GB drives. Finding reasonably priced but dependable storage in large quantities can be a challenge with all the heavily used drives being dumped on the secondary market..

Is that what the templates mentioned many times throughout the forums would be? That is what I had been thinking all along so I may have missed the boat.

I have a working Unraid setup a network analyst friend built for me. I couldn't really do anything with it myself but I could invite him and his wife over periodically and "upgrade" it. When I saw Linus's video and then the initial circle of tech reviewers I decided it was time to try myself. I have no complaints but my needs are pretty straight forward and I got the Black Friday package.

I think the wording of your questions is a bit hamstringing. For instance, I have been using Tailscale to access my Immich app outside the internal network. As well I can access all the NAS data. But, the only apps officially supported are HexOS core, Immich and Plex. If you were to browse the full forums you would see the current owners of HexOS are having success with all types of apps but to be completely transparent there are still some issues. If your a gambler, you buy in and try the things you need. If you are looking for an out of the box production NAS, I don't think we are quite there yet. My start was miserable but I came to this product with big hopes but small knowledge and I am already getting everything I wanted. Just keep in mind that if the HexOS team isn't showing t as a supported app doesn't it will or will not be supported in a year.

All I ask is we don't assume that if we use a product that starts to cost, we will all be able to do that.

I am betting that there are folks besides the devs and admins with both practical knowledge within TrueNAS and an understanding of security best practices. I think they are being quiet now because they don't want to get dragged into forum arguments and focus on their own setup. Those folks following that approach will be much more valuable to the beta than I am right now because when something they are trying doesn't work, it is more likely to be a real issue. When I get something to work besides the one-click apps I was using the 'on a wing and a prayer' approach. I got Tailscale and Nextcloud both working but I can't tell anybody how exactly.

I think Jellyfin has been already acknowledged as in the next group. However, I can't seem to find the forum post that actually says that. All I can find is the references to the original forum. post. Do we have something more concrete as to what is next and if reworking Imich will be include?

Would you want just Nextcloud or some of the additional apps within? And I think we are skating on thinner ice. I installed Nextcloud through TrueNas and it works but I turned it off because it seems to be unsecure. It looks like for the sets of apps we are asking for now we need some best practice security included. And I don't think that should be the HexOS teams responsibility. The youtube video that gave me my breakthrough talked a lot about the HTTP versus HTTPS weakness and how tailscale was not a solution by itself. The HexOS team can add some of the popular security apps to help us but if I get hacked it is very unlikely it's anyone's fault but mine. Don't stop the suggestions because most of us are probably seeing app options we never knew existed and want to incorporate ourselves. Just remember to make security a priority as well.

I am definitely not a TrueNAS expert. I'm not sure I can even say I am entry level. So for me, HexOS had to be pretty plug and play. Though there is a lot of talk about future state and upcoming opportunities, today your $199 will get you a pretty solid and simple frontend to the TrueNAS product and a promise of what is expected to come. If you are pretty functional or better in TrueNas I wonder if you won't get bored with how simple the 1 click apps make adding products to your UI. Yes as you can see above there is an expectation of more apps coming for the i click process because there has been forun pages dedicated to what apps the community wants next. I wonder if this will mean that much to you . The apps coming next seem to be geared towards giving folks a functional NAS with any number of apps that showcase what might be popular and good foundation showing off what's possible. I'm thinking it would be the third or fourth wave of apps added that you might find more interesting. I';m not trying to talk you into or out of spending the money today outside of the fact the team has said the price is expected to go up after the official full release. They have been very up front about that and the expectation of a monthly option. So you may need to see what works for you. Overall PERSONAL OPINION: If your an IT professional (and therefore the default helpdesk for almost everyone you know) this seems to be a product you can recommend to folks where computers and networking isn't their jam. But, if you have a very specific use case you may want to see this product mature for a little while yet. The forums are full of examples is issues that may or may not have anything to do with HexOS. And sooner or later the devs will have to wade through all the noise to address all questions/issues even if the answer is "That's not a HexOS issue". Only time will tell if it is the right fit for you and if the price is right. To each their own.

Were dates given for either of those things? If not it proves FangerZero's point and seem to justify their frustration. Is either Jellyfin or Templates in testing? If not then neither would seem to be ready by HexOS 1.0. And while I am on that subject, I haven't seen or heard any discussion on when that go live date would be. It would seem that if that were within a couple months we would have heard something and be finalizing our hardware purchases to be ready. For me HexOS is already prod. I wanted a simple NAS and when I heard LTT talking about his investment and requirements I thought I finally had what I was looking for. Yeah Plex is neat and Immich is cool and I'm near 60 so I really talk like that. The only way this ends badly is the company goes under before the local UI is created. If you don't see the frustration of your community regardless if it's a bug in HexOS, TrueNAS or the app being run, well then you have a much larger issue on your hands than whether the switches should be to the right or left of the descriptor text. Yes it's a beta test. Yes we knew that going in. But also "yes, this is coming or that is coming and we are also working on a new file system" is just more vagueness in an already vague picture as far as we know.

Did they ever say they would have more than two apps or just that there would be a template if someone wanted to add more apps?

Sorry I blew past this but I mean I couldn't setup the initial datasets as per this video. If the issue is the permissions he talks about later, I didn't try to sync to that because of the dataset error above. Maybe I need to do this out of order?