Master-spud

I'm in the same boat @Matt11 running a dell r730xd, and currently doing the same thing with IPMI, just have a word document with the hex codes I need to input. I don't really see there being a day where HexOS really implements a fan control within the software. Thankfully since my server just runs 24/7 and my load remains mostly static as far as CPU usage, I don't have a huge problem with the set and forget fan speed via IPMI.

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

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.

I'm sure as just a dummy switch it would work on it's own, all the added functionality of being a smart switch would be out the window without either hosting the Ubiquiti software on your computer (I did this with a few of their access points before finally getting a unifi gateway) or buying one of their other methods of having the unifi software running. So yes and no...

Yeah that's a big one for me since kind of locked into which you choose, planning on a Dell R730xd with 12 3.5" drives, so a single parity drive is kinda rough.