Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
cc @caseyliss

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    …why, though?

    I mean, technology is cool and I like a neat portable setup as much as the next person, but why take this to a beach? Can you not be away from social networks and your home LAN for even a few hours at a beach? :-(

  • blewit@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Awesome setup… but for god’s sake, enjoy the beach!

  • keyez@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Really wish I had something like this for my vacation right now, would be nice to be able to play some episodes from plex or watch a bit women’s world cup games but this airbnb only has 1 appletv

  • willya@lemmyf.uk
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    1 year ago

    The best thing about Plex is being able to play it on anything. HDMI out of your phone/laptop makes more sense.

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      1 year ago

      @willya I’ve done that in the past. It works ok. I bring an Apple TV to use as the client. I like the tvOS Plex app quite a bit and I don’t have to use VNC or get up to control it.

  • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I’m planing to get a pi in the future to build mount the Plex server and other stuff like vpn for home etc … can I get some guidance on what to look and what type of storage (physically small) to attach to it? Also it can be used as a seed box ? All together

    • Sam Doran@hachyderm.ioOP
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      1 year ago

      @nyakojiru The RK3588 and RK3566 are fantastic SOCs. At least 4GB RAM. An eMMC is much more reliable for the boot volume than a microSD card.

      This won’t be able to do any live transcoding, so make sure your clients are configured for direct streaming.

      You can get fairly large USB 3 flash drives and microSD cards for compact local storage. A NAS is better than local storage for a media server, though.