LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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I picked up a 7 year old Netgear modem/router on eBay that has replaced my ISP modem/router. The WiFi is better, and I can port forward without taking all the cables out of the back (yeah that's a thing with the ISP one) and forward traffic through my Adguard DNS. Well worth the £25 I bought it for.

Also if it starts annoying me I can throw OPENWRT on it and play with that instead.

I have used DuckDNS and Nginx to get Home Assistant outside but it was horrible, just constantly breaking. Around Christmas time I bought myself a domain name for a few years and Cloudflare to access it, and it's been night and day since.

Sure it cost me money but it was far cheaper than a Nabu Casa account.

Hah if you've been on Reddit and seen some of the posts about LMS and Home Assistant you've probably seen a bunch of my posts about it.

When I installed PCP on the Pi Zero W it was hooked up to a Bluetooth soundbar. There was no need for soldering a PCB in there. The pi3b I have upstairs was running though and old pair of PC speakers I found in a drawer, and the one in my kitchen was run though and old Bose surround sound system, via an electric drum kit I got my kid for his birthday. Meant we could put songs on Spotify through it and play along on the drums

I can't answer your original question but I have had a lot of success using Logitech Media Server (LMS) or PiCorePlayer (same thing but all in one, server and end player). They are also known as Squeezebox.

I ran a server on a pi, then ran the player part on more Pis including a pi zero w which had PCP installed (but I just used the player part of it).

Squeezebox used to be a Logitech brand, you can still find them on eBay. They closed it down, but open sourced it and it was taken over by the OS community.

It looks shit. But there is a Material theme you can add that makes it look far nicer. It will run your own media from the server, but also other services like TuneIn Radio, Spotify, YouTube, BBC radio...

I ended up with it because there is a plugin that allows Google Home Minis to be used as end devices and I have 3 of them. So I had 6 end devices (3 Google, 3 Pis) and I could run them all together playing the same music throughout the house.

It's a bit buggy sometimes, and it requires a fair bit of fiddling. I found that the Google devices would always be out of sync by a half second or so. But on the whole I loved it, and when my Dell Optiplex comes I intend to revive it on that.

Yup I had a quick look after posting that reply and there is one for my Roku which is the main device I use for media. The kids watch on the PlayStation 4 though and it seems Sony are not great with OS software unfortunately.

That said I'll still probably spin up a container and have a play if my new server ever arrives

Thanks, I may very well do that. I just don't understand how to get the Jellyfin onto my telly, but don't worry I'm not asking for help with that, I like a bit of research.

I'm not quite a noob. I run an Arr stack on my PC and I'm going to be transferring it to a dedicated server along with Home Assistant and whatnot next week.

My question is, what's so good about Jellyfin? Why does it always get recommended over Plex? Plex seems to be working just fine so I just don't get why Jellyfin may be better.

Is it just that it's free and open source? Coz while I'm totally down with that, I don't pay for Plex and it seems to be working just fine.

Currently I have a pi4b running Home Assistant, Adguard, influx db, Maria db, Grafana, node red...

I have a pi3b running my main Adguard and Raspotify.

My main Pi can't handle Adguard and HA together, keeps crashing. So I just bought a Dell Optiplex 7050 mini to be an actual home server instead of having everything running as Home Assistant add-ons.

Planning on using it for Arr, Plex, HA, anything else I can think of, with my Pis being my Adguard and Raspotify instances and maybe get some Bluetooth tracking going in the house while I'm at it.

Might run a little Minecraft server for the kids too

I paid £50 last year to watch Limp Bizkit at the same venue.

Long and short of it is that I used to get beaten up because of my music choices and style of dress in this town, in Yorkshire, in the UK.

Not far away Sophie Lancaster got beaten to death from the same thing.

Now I'm seeing sold out shows for the bands I was beaten for listening to, in my hometown.

So yeah I'm going, and I'm gonna be going mental in that moshpit.

I've paid £50 to see Korn this year. Tickets are now going for £200.

Yes

Thanks for the correction. I've lurked in here and the Reddit one back before the time we don't talk about, but I have no clue when it comes to hardware. I got given a PC to game on and was talking to my mate about buying server bits, and mentioned getting i7 processors. He told me it would be more powerful than my gaming rig because that's only i5s.

This makes more sense. So I can get an i3-7xxx quad core mini PC and try upgrade the RAM and storage.

I have a bunch of ram sticks in a bottom drawer and some HDDs I've never managed to boot yet, so I have things to play with... I just don't know what they are or if they work.

I love to tinker though. This all sounds like lots of fun

Hey no you answered a bunch of questions I had there. So I'm looking for an i7 with lots of RAM. Thanks that's excellent

It's been getting this way for a while. It's getting to the point where we're having SNOWSTORM predictions every week, and when you have a read it'll be a little flurry overnight.

So I guess we just ignore weather warnings now because they'll most likely just be clickbait

Fuck off with these TERRIBLE SNOW forecasts then putting

"As much as 5mm and 10mm is anticipated in the North East, which will be the worst-hit and see the brunt of the downturn in conditions. "

Fuck

Off

Talking in mm like it's gonna be loads of fucking snow.

Clickbait cunts

I'm in the market for a nas or thinclient for these kinds of things, an upgrade for my RPi Home Assistant.

I'm stuck at hardware at the moment and think a cheap 2bay NAS is probably the way to go. My concern is that I won't be able to run all the things on a NAS mainly because I'm clueless. This community talks in maths (as Radiohead say) so half the time I'm trying to decipher all the LXCs and other acronyms.

Anyway, I think I need to learn PROXMOX or Unraid so your comment has me interested.

My question to you is this: since your server is plugged in via ethernet, can you access the Windows VM via web interface? Or does it require a screen, keyboard, mouse, etc?

I think I'm gonna be running HA in a VM, along with Adguard and maybe LMS in docker containers, then probably a Windows VM for Arr and Plex. I assume all these things will have their own port but I'm just not 100% about the actual Windows VM

Click and Collect is THE SHIT. I roll up, sit in my car for 5 minutes with my Rubik's cube, and some poor souls destroyed employee comes over to my car, takes my name and wheels my shopping out to the car.

I thank him/her and throw it in my boot, then I fuck off home for a brew.

I've just bought a 7800 because it can replace my Sky Router apparently with a little tinkering. I have an Openwrt router running as an AP in my loft but was gonna leave this on stock firmware just because I tried to use the Openwrt as DHCP and it didn't seem to want to work, maybe I just don't understand it well enough.

All I really want to do is point at my Adaway servers, so I'll be able to do that with the stock firmware.

Anything is better than what Sky have me locked down to.

I want it on my gravestone

Install Plex on your media server. Install Plex on your Phone.

Point Plex at your media on your server.

See if it works on your phone.

If it does, install Plex on your Xbox.