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Home entertainment with NAS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by zweieuro@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi! My goal: I want to set up a ~~beamer~~ projector in my flat and connect that to some kind of 'always on' machine with which I can stream (currently Netflix a bit but that really is not a priority as I am thinking of cancelling it) but would also like it to be a torrent client (I have a VPN) to download some media. Though something like popcorn time would also be nice, though that's also something that I would only use behind a vpn for obvious reasons.

I have a pi5 or and some older NUCs hanging around that run well with Ubuntu. I know that something like kodi does not play nice with Netflix (iirc because of drm).

Should I use the pi? Or better an Ubuntu and do the power management best I can myself?

What would you guys say is a good way to try this out?

Edit: TIL I thought beamer is a word that German borrows from English, so I assumed it's the same. Nope, in German 'beamer' has very weird roots (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoprojektor) so Germany stole an English word 'beam' but it meant project... Weird

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NFS	Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex	Brand of media server package
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SMB	Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 17 acronyms.

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[–] palitu@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

If you have a NUC, i would use that.

Anytime i try something like this with RPi type gizmo's, i always run into problems. Overkill with a NUC could make your life much easier :D

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

FYI: What you call a "Beamer" in German you would call a "projector" in english. I would edit the post, or else people will think you want to set up star trek technology. ;)

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My future plans include setting up a NAS storage and connecting that to a Pi which would be always on. The Pi would be a torrent seeder, and a Plex/Jellyfin server as well.

This way my trusty desktop computer can rest after being on 24/7 for like 4 years now. Poor thing.

I haven't tried this yet, so I can't report on how well it works. But maybe it can serve as inspiration for you.

[–] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

I have this currently. Been running steady for 5 years now. I have 2 5tb portable hdds as my storage (usb3) and all the arrs, plex media server and qbittorrent with the vpn and a kill switch so if the vpn goes down the torrents aren’t running. Everything just works as long as nothing needs transcoded. My main tv is Roku and seems to handle all the file formats so it been working fine for me. YMMV.

Currently I am trying to learn docker and containerize all the different apps to make redeployment simpler.

[–] zweieuro@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is what I had in mind as well; If you had to how would you add a beamer to this that could use your jellyfin/plex server?

Ideally I'd want a pi or mini pc behind the beamer that I can switch on/off remotely so that part is not always on

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

If the projector supports apps, maybe it can run Plex/Jellyfin? Otherwise maybe I would have another small Pi or a small laptop or something that would use the projector as its output. I'm assuming the projector doesn't support HDR so a regular browser connecting to Plex could work.

I just use my HDR-enabled smart TV to connect to Plex and Jellyfin. 🤷‍♂️