Q3 Command Deck Update Notification (09/29/2025) : New Apps, Curation Process and Folder updates

[jerod]

Additional Apps
We’ve just added Jellyfin, Home Assistant, and qBittorrent!  And this is just the beginning, thanks to our new curation process, we expect many more apps to come online soon.

Intro to App Curation
We've added an interface to the HexOS frontend to make iterating on apps easier and to let the community contribute their own curations. By enabling Dev Mode in Preferences, you'll unlock the Custom Script option for app installs. From there, you can tweak existing install scripts or create new ones then share them with friends or submit them to the official HexOS curation templates.

Right now, the feature focuses on streamlining the app install process. Soon we plan to surface installer questions directly in the UI and automate post-install steps (such as in-app setup wizards). That work depends on the in-development Local UI project, we will share more news about this in the future.
 
We'd love your feedback as we refine this, let us know what's working well and where you're running into friction.
 
Official Docs
We've launched a documentation site!
This new resource brings together everything you need to know about HexOS, including getting started guides, feature documentation, troubleshooting help, release notes, and community resources.

Along with App Curation, we are opening the docsite up for community contributions.
Learn about how to contribute here. 
- Docsite contributions
- App Curation
 
Folder Wizard Arrives
We've extended our simple folder creation interface with a new wizard-driven process that unlocks specialized use cases like encrypted folders and Time Machine backups. With this foundation in place, we're now ready to move forward on bigger features including Snapshots, Replication, and Buddy Backup.

First Flight Updates
We've made improvements to First Flight, our onboarding experience, to help new users get up and running with HexOS more easily.

Key improvements include:
- Progress Tracking: When you complete tasks shown in the First Flight modal, it will pop up again to show you which tasks you've completed and what's still left to do
- Persistent Banner: A banner now lives at the top of every page, keeping First Flight guidance accessible throughout HexOS 

This feature is designed to make the HexOS onboarding process a little more intuitive, especially for users new to home server management.

 

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NOTE: This update was applied automatically. You may need to clear your cache. Help with clearing you cache is available here. 

[The_Green_Nerd2]

Fantastic! Can't wait to see it progress even further! Might have to pick up a second Key if they go on sale again!

[FangerZero]

Awesome to see the app curation a thing now. I know many people were able to get trueNAS apps working but me lol too much for me. It'll be nice if our community who's more interested in such things can help create these and push them to the HexOS team for vetting any bad actors so that plebs like me don't install something malicious. 

[Jakor]

Can’t wait to play around with app curation!

 

I also noticed I can update my truenas apps within HexOS now - not sure if that is new as of this update, but I get a server error when I try to update either curated apps (Immich) or truenas apps (dockge and sabnzbd).

 

when I try to update within truenas, it gives a more detailed error about needing to update my storage configuration. Is this related to the HexOS update or something that changed on the Truenas side of the equation?

[mill3000]

1 hour ago, Jakor said:

Can’t wait to play around with app curation!

 

I also noticed I can update my truenas apps within HexOS now - not sure if that is new as of this update, but I get a server error when I try to update either curated apps (Immich) or truenas apps (dockge and sabnzbd).

 

when I try to update within truenas, it gives a more detailed error about needing to update my storage configuration. Is this related to the HexOS update or something that changed on the Truenas side of the equation?

Can you put the error and some screen shots in the feedback option in HexOS so I can address it with the team please?

[Mascot]

1 hour ago, Jakor said:

I also noticed I can update my truenas apps within HexOS now - not sure if that is new as of this update, but I get a server error when I try to update either curated apps (Immich) or truenas apps (dockge and sabnzbd).

when I try to update within truenas, it gives a more detailed error about needing to update my storage configuration. Is this related to the HexOS update or something that changed on the Truenas side of the equation?

Regarding Immich, this has been a known issue for months, that they have chosen to ignore. I don't know if they fixed the fresh install or not, but if they did then wiping the old Immich installation and reinstalling it should sort things out, at the cost of any data present. The alternative is to follow the manual steps to change the storage configuration using command line and the TrueNAS interface. I don't think we'll be getting any help from the HexOS side of things.

[Jakor]

8 minutes ago, Mascot said:

Regarding Immich, this has been a known issue for months, that they have chosen to ignore. I don't know if they fixed the fresh install or not, but if they did then wiping the old Immich installation and reinstalling it should sort things out, at the cost of any data present. The alternative is to follow the manual steps to change the storage configuration using command line and the TrueNAS interface. I don't think we'll be getting any help from the HexOS side of things.

Ack - thank you for confirming. I loaded up HexOS again and the other apps are updating now (must have been an oddball glitch that the other apps also had an error).

 

id really hate to back-up my iOS photos again since it takes days to complete on an iPhone… but at least I know what needs to be done now!

 

@mill3000 - thank you for the response but please disregard my post!

[mill3000]

Appreciate everyone taking the time to participate in the forums. It helps us and other users. Thanks 😀

[Todd Miller]

Ouch.  The irony in that statement is not lost.

[sadicarnot]

Anyone else not able to log into the HexOS deck?

[Mondrayy]

Not mentioned in the update list but my drive warnings are gone with the Q3 update. Had them in HexOS since setting up the NAS while TrueNAS said everything is good and now they agree with each other. Yay!

[jonp]

43 minutes ago, sadicarnot said:

Anyone else not able to log into the HexOS deck?

Investigating!

[sadicarnot]

20 minutes ago, jonp said:

Investigating!

On chrome the URL is coming up as https://deck.hexos.com/login?callbackUrl=https://deck.hexos.com/ and it looks like it is just in a loop. I was able to sign in on Safari. I tried clearing cookies but this callback URL seems to be persistent. In any case, i am able to long in on Safari, but it just loops back to the login page on Chrome. 

[jonp]

You may need to clear your browser history on Chrome.  I thought the deck was down for a sec because of your post and I couldn't find my server, but it turned out my Internet had gone down at the same time.  Apologies to our dev team for starting a false alarm ;-).

[AJV]

Any update on the Immich issues?

[jonp]

44 minutes ago, AJV said:

Any update on the Immich issues?

Team and I are reviewing it tomorrow a bit deeper. Thought we had this resolved for all but apparently not 😡

[TwoStroke]

Loving the update, am looking now at install scripts and seeing about uninstalling my current applications and reinstalling with install scripts (This might take a while!).

 

I like we can update apps now through the dashboard, that's awesome. I would love in future for a toggle-able option of Auto Update on certain apps, and then we can set a time period on when to do these, like how Watchtower works.

[Abraham7]

I had to remove immich completely and delete all it's old data. Then a fresh install via hexOS worked. Not too bad for me but not ideal if you have a larger library. 

Loving the update though! 

[Pilotn55]

Fantastic!

I’m so glad to see all curation being streamlined this is HUGE for this service. I cannot wait to see what people do/help out while I can. 
 

Thank you for an update! We all do appreciate them when they come. 

[hammerdown]

has the plex issue been fixed with the new iso or do you still got fine that folder and edit or unstall it from hexos and install it truenas ui 

[TwoStroke]

11 minutes ago, hammerdown said:

has the plex issue been fixed with the new iso or do you still got fine that folder and edit or unstall it from hexos and install it truenas ui 

If you're referring to the Quicksync issues where it won't transcode due to permissions problems, this has not been resolved. Just tested this for myself. 

[Mawson]

6 hours ago, jonp said:

Team and I are reviewing it tomorrow a bit deeper. Thought we had this resolved for all but apparently not 😡

Is it possible that it may be the same issue, just some users didn't realize a fix had rolled out and may still need to apply it? Would hate for the dev team to go on a goose chase if there isn't actually an issue!

[Tomcatdk]

Curated apps are still buggy.
Havent been able to install neither Immich or Jellyfin. Only twist i have on this newly installed system is that Movies, Music and Shows folder is located on another volume.
Jellyfin has been "installing" for 2 hours and Immich installs but says connection refused when Launching the app. 
When installing it should test whether the service is viable at the end. When Uninstalling, it should truly dislodge everything the app has deployed, so that you may install it again without issues.

[Rexseven]

4 hours ago, TwoStroke said:

If you're referring to the Quicksync issues where it won't transcode due to permissions problems, this has not been resolved. Just tested this for myself. 

Its disappointing that out of the very limited amount of apps initially provided, Immich and Plex both still have issues. I appreciate this is early adoption but at minimum I think the HexOS team should write clear documentation on how to overcome these issues (even if this takes you away from the deck into truenas) 

[ravstar52]

Is this supposed to be the 2025 Q3 HexOS update, or is it just an update for Command Deck?

If it's the latter, could we please get a little more clarity when we're teasing these drops? I thought today would be the day HexOS's support for TrueNAS-Scale 25.04-10 would drop.

And I was so looking forward to messing with LXCs too...