Todd Miller

Maybe, maybe not. You thought is additional work for the dev team. So if they are already in the code making automation changes, what else can they do that seems straightforward and improves quality of life for HexOS. My thought is a very small improvement but I have noticed that is the app is stopped and I try to do an update, it seems the update process hangs. In my head like your snapshotting potential improvement request to "simply" tell the process to 1) check if an app is running, 2) stop it if it is, 3) do snapshot, 4) do update, 5) restart app. For mine it's similar as it's when the update button is clicked 1) check to see if the app is running and start it if it isn't, 2) do snapshot, 3) do update and 4) return the app to original state. Both would take work to do but could make things simpler. I know we are making some assumptions that HexOS knows the state of the app but since is displays that info it seems that is available. The problem is similar with both our thoughts in that the update process needs to know what to do if the app won't stop or restart as needed. Seems like nothing is really ever simple and it's tough to know how much is to much.

I wonder if that can lead to the reverse as well where you can click to upgrade upgrade and an app that is stopped can snapshopt, start, update and perhaps stop again. Are there to many options to hit all possibilities. And if you start down the rabbit hole, where do you stop? Actually I am being serious. I have several apps that are stopped and within a week every one has an update message.

Perhaps that's true but it does not change potential involvement. If anything, an attempt to hide the activity is even more suspicious if anyone is watching and actually cares.

Hmm. I ask this obviously not knowing what all these 'arr stack' jobs really do but if Eshtek get involved in making a torrent process bigger and better, do they take on some potential responsibility how this is used?

Well, I don't recommend either one I tried but they were a fun distraction for a day. It also shows the overall ability of HexOS/TrueNAS that, in my case, it ran on a PI 5, loaded PLEX and played a video off an external HHD Not well mind you but it worked. And please don't tell the admins I said that because I will just have to deny it. I have my reputation to consider. 😉

Geez. I thought I was cutting edge with a GMKtek mini PC and a Rasberry Pie 5 as my non standard desktop PC entries.

Hmm. I believe the simple answer is yes. Now let's dig deeper. The ninth gen chip, GPU and memory amount are will within specs. I hesitate to get into your storage with so many drives and sizes. Are you intending to create multiple pools to allow the single large drives to run at full capacity? You may have some additional planning to do there as it looks like @mill3000has already given you a starting point to work from. As far as "more or less recreate my environment" there doesn't look like there are any major hurdles beyond the VM and as you see, that is in the works. Now for the question I am morally obligated to ask. why HexOS? Or more specifically, what do you looking for from HexoS and beyond the marketing materials, what do you know about HexOS? For me, I have a production Unraid setup on equipment a generation newer. It performs exactly as I need but I don't touch it. If it breaks I phone a friend. Offering beer and pizza get me nearly 24/7 support from the person who set it all up and does yearly upgrades or from their equally network smart spouse. Really, I don't touch it. I don't like this situation but as I watched them set it up I knew it was out of my league. When I want to add media or docs I have a landing directory mapped to windows and I run specific BAT jobs to handle all the processing. So it all works. I just don't know how. That is why I got HexOS. I got way newer hardware thinking if something fails I want it to be something I did. I picked Unraid over TrueNAS and Docker or (I think) Portainer under Linux and wasn't really interested in learning and of that. HexOS sounded simple to run and it has been simple for me to run and manage. I personally don't care about VM's today but that is an example of the handful of things you need to understand about HexOS. As of today and in my opinion, it has a simple and straightforward setup. That setup makes some assumptions that make sense if you want to install some of their 23 "curated" apps. I had trouble with the first apps I installed 15 months ago but with a little research and talking to a few others in the same boat it was easy to work around. With the exception of the last batch of apps added to the curated list I have installed them all to see if I would find any issues. I have also added about 5 apps not curated following guides on youtube. The only real downside to me of HexOS is it's dependent on TrueNAS. I saw this up front when I purchased the app so I went in eyes wide open considering the fact that I really didn't want to learn TrueNAS. To be specific, I underestimated how much time I would need to spend in TrueNAS verses HexOS. I welcome rebuttal to my next statement but in my case I believe it to be true. If I stand by my original reasoning for buying HexOS, then I expect to be almost completely satisfied. And where I might not be, it's not HexOS that caused the issue. I can't believe Realtek and TrueNAS haven't found a solution to my transfer speed being reduced by 90% on a straight copy. I expect I will install Jellyfin, Immich and Tailscale but even in those cases, this issues I have had are in the hands of Jellyfin and Immich. It sounds like you are looking for a little more that the core HexOS application so your mileage may vary. And when you are told what is being worked on for the future (and that does not happen nearly often enough), it's a pretty aggressive list of potential life improvements. On a side note, I have no idea what the "ARR stack" is or does but it was requested and seems to make folks happier? Don't buy anything until you are ready but I don't regret my purchase.

Yeah, things are pretty low key about doing anything before you are ready. It is a good idea to have your hardware ichoices settled. If you list your system thoughts you can get some tips also. A lot of folks bought in a special announcement and couldn't install for a couple months. No need to rush.

Is this documented anywhere with pictures? I wonder if this may help solve my issue. Or at least prevent me from having other issues because I have two ethernet ports.

I am using a card very close to that one to try to solve the 100 GB/s transfer limit issue and while it works as a card it does not fix the issue. Now, I didn't do any of the stuff listed here so you may have better luck.. I believe my card has the same chip.

Your not the first to ask and this post is not the first to bring it up. So far there has been no response.

When I had local UI installed I had to log in just like the very first time I setup HexOS. It took a little while. Just long enough to make me think I was doing something wrong but the dashboard came up When I logged in I saw picture. I clicked on the word local and saw this. I am guessing it's not exactly the word that is the trigger. That just happens to be where the mouse pointer was when I clicked. I clicked on Switch to Hosted and went to the online dashboard so I started on local. Now to switch back I click the Return to Local button on the top banner. If you don't start that way I am guessing the down arrow next to your server name will allow you to go back and forth.

Hey, you can't leave a cliffhanger like! Don't friends normally share bigger impacts with one another? 😁

I believe there was a long discussion in a few posts but it came down to two licenses, two accounts. If I am wrong someone will surely correct me. Hold on, I take that back because that way you could sell the second license and defeat the pricing overall.

Hey, I have a couple questions. After watching the latest LTT video about needing a NAS, did you ask for a little publicity now that you are in the 1.0 neighborhood? I have NO problem if you did but i'm not sure they really did the product a favor. Yes the setup overall show the simplicity but the SMB issue is pretty common and pretty troubling. Plouffe did say it was a Microsoft issue but most people don't have many people willing to bail you out. And Microsoft security setting are not something you screw with if you don't have real experience. You probably could have done without that "I get the key. So I didn't pay for it.' comment as well. Oh well, any publicity is good publicity right? The video was a little weird to watch sine it must have been filmed a few months ago. So now that you have reached this point is the price going up? That would put you right up there with the lifetime Unraid price. You have been warning folks all along it would happen so we can't ack surprised.