New Blog Post!

[csmanel]

Hey all! 

We've published a new blog post sharing some of the development work happening behind the scenes at HexOS.

This time, we're highlighting our new end-to-end testing suite which is going to drastically help our development moving forward.  Checkout the new blog post for more details!

The docsite has also been updated to include two awesome user created guides regarding Immich.

To be fully transparent, we are still figuring out what exactly the HexOS official solution looks like, but want to provide you with as much support as possible in the meantime. 

docs link: guide by @Forsaken (hub link)
docs link: guide by @G-M0N3Y-2503 (hub link)

Here is also a guide directly from the Immich community.  If you have more specific questions/issues with Immich please put them in the Immich support section.

You may have also seen that we are hiring!
This role (along with our end-to-end testing) will be crucial for keeping up with apps and staying ahead of issues like the one we saw with Immich.
Thank you to everyone who applied! We’ll be conducting interviews soon and are looking forward to chatting with you all.
 

[jonp]

Kudos to the entire team for their hard work on this. Proper testing is a key component of our focus on delivering an excellent user experience and will continue to be integral to our mission. Great work to all involved!

[Mawson]

Meta question: is the blog on the main site still live or does it link to the docs.hexos blog now? I think Linus called that out as weird on WAN a couple weeks ago.

[jonp]

2 hours ago, Mawson said:

Meta question: is the blog on the main site still live or does it link to the docs.hexos blog now? I think Linus called that out as weird on WAN a couple weeks ago.

I fixed it that night.  We migrated all the previous blog posts to the doc site as well as updated the link to it from the home page. 

[Cantos]

I wanted to ask, what tool you are using, because the blog doesn't specifically mention it, but then I noticed it's Playwright. Probably the best choice.

I hope these tests continue to grow and keep making your lives easier.

[jonp]

5 hours ago, Cantos said:

I wanted to ask, what tool you are using, because the blog doesn't specifically mention it, but then I noticed it's Playwright. Probably the best choice.

I hope these tests continue to grow and keep making your lives easier.

You nailed it! We are loving playwright. 

[Todd Miller]

Is the RSS feed supposed to have this blog post?  I only see five entries and the last on is May.  Also, only the Q! status update is listed.  I'm wondering if I have the right one.

[jonp]

1 hour ago, Todd Miller said:

Is the RSS feed supposed to have this blog post?  I only see five entries and the last on is May.  Also, only the Q! status update is listed.  I'm wondering if I have the right one.

We moved the blog to the docs site. I'll chat with @csmanel about getting RSS support for it. 

[Jakor]

On 10/21/2025 at 2:43 PM, csmanel said:

Hey all! 

We've published a new blog post sharing some of the development work happening behind the scenes at HexOS.

This time, we're highlighting our new end-to-end testing suite which is going to drastically help our development moving forward.  Checkout the new blog post for more details!

The docsite has also been updated to include two awesome user created guides regarding Immich.

To be fully transparent, we are still figuring out what exactly the HexOS official solution looks like, but want to provide you with as much support as possible in the meantime. 

docs link: guide by @Forsaken (hub link)
docs link: guide by @G-M0N3Y-2503 (hub link)

Here is also a guide directly from the Immich community.  If you have more specific questions/issues with Immich please put them in the Immich support section.

You may have also seen that we are hiring!
This role (along with our end-to-end testing) will be crucial for keeping up with apps and staying ahead of issues like the one we saw with Immich.
Thank you to everyone who applied! We’ll be conducting interviews soon and are looking forward to chatting with you all.
 

Thank you to you and everyone that put together these tutorials. I was excited to give this a try, but even with the tutorials, this seems to be a less than straightforward process.

 

On the first guide linked, I immediately encountered discrepancies between how my Truenas was configured/behaved and how the guide assumed your Truenas would function. First, the dataset I created did not seem to have the same "strip ACLs" button shown. My permissions section looked a little different as a result, but I feel comfortable tweaking the list manually to make it match the guide. The bigger issue for me was that I couldn't get my computer (MacOS via terminal) to SSH into the Truenas server. I kept getting a permissions denied error. I tried a small amount of googling, but I'm not sure I have the time or patience to try to attempt this.

 

The second tutorial seems a little less beginner friendly. I thiiiink I could try to figure it out, but immediately after my first attempt of tweaking the permissions, I'm getting endless "operation not permitted" errors in the terminal.

 

This is clearly user error on my end, but I wanted to post this for other HexOS users here - I definitely feel like I am the target audience of introductory homelabber that doesn't care to tinker with these things and I wanted to share my experience for other's visibility before they invest the time themselves. Unfortunately, I think it will be a better use of my time to wipe and start over on my immich backup. Hopefully they stay true to their word and this is the last time they make this sort of change, or I will probably look elsewhere for backing up my photos in the future.

 

Thank you again to those that took the time to try to document guides on this process!

[Mawson]

On 10/22/2025 at 8:23 AM, jonp said:

We moved the blog to the docs site. I'll chat with @csmanel about getting RSS support for it. 

Might want to have https://hexos.com/blog/  redirect there also. Navigating directly still goes to the old blog.