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…I was finally able to do complex tasks, like having an IKEA motion sensor trigger a Philips Hue light that sends a notification to my iPhone, and dimming my Plex media player…
…Unfortunately, we weren't able to take one of these efficient and impressive servers home to upgrade our local Plex server and make it a Netflix rival. Maybe next time. Best Deals…
…It's one of the few devices that can double as a Plex Media Server, handling transcoding without the need for a separate PC. This tells you how much power it actually…
…There have been more instances than I can count where the Synology Photos app hadn’t backed up months of media, while I assumed it did in the background. Google’s ecosystem…
…Multimedia Server: A server app for streaming content hosted on a TerraMaster server, similar to the Media Station of Synology. TerraMaster doesn’t have playback apps on the front end, but Multimedia…
…Plex is a media server, Proxmox is a hypervisor, and Grafana is for metrics dashboards. BookStack's hierarchical structure makes it perfect for organizing device documentation that QR codes can link to…
…OSMC is built around the popular Kodi media center software (formerly XBMC), while RasPlex transforms your Pi into the ultimate Plex streaming box. The $21 Raspberry Pi TV Hat…
What is Hound? Hound is a self-hosted, open-source media server, like Plex/Jellyfin, but with the extra ability to stream content through P2P (torrent) or HTTP/Debrid without downloading first. With Hound, you have the f…
Lurked here for a while, learned a ton from posts like the one I'm hoping this becomes. Time to give back. Quick context: I'm IT support by trade. Not a developer, not a sysadmin. Everything in this post I figured out by…
…TrueNAS SCALE is brilliant as a NAS, but the OS is also tailored toward hosting apps and services. I quickly got Jellyfin, Plex, Nextcloud, Frigate, and other apps up and running in…
…Plenty of people use them with local media servers, network-attached storage, Plex, Jellyfin, or high-bitrate video files ripped from their own discs. In those cases, 100Mbps stops feeling generous and…
…Media server Sometimes Yes Jellyfin or Plex often benefit from virtualization for backup and management, though passthrough and transcoding can make dedicated hardware more appealing. Home automation Sometimes Yes, with caveats Home…
