we live in hell

I don't even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they're saying....hey do you want a worse experience?

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[–] 373 points 2 years ago (66 children)

Protip: Do not connect your TV to the Internet.

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  • [–] 132 points 2 years ago (40 children)

    I ended up giving up and just putting a Linux PC attached to my TV as a media center. I host plex on it.

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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    This is the way (Jellyfin here)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I'm new to all this. Got any recommendations how to learn about Jellyfin?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    So here's how I'm running things: At the top level it's a Raspberry pi 5 running raspbian, then everything else (jellyfin, prowlarr, radarr, sonarr, Usenet download software, etc) is a docker container. If that sounds like how you want to do it feel free to message me and I can try to get you on your feet

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m not who you replied to but I’ve been looking to set up something like this (I have a year old dedicated tower for hosting)

    But I don’t know anything about docker, and it seems like a pretty big learn - is it required for the sonarr radarr and overseerr stuff, or just a nice to have thing?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Honestly you can just run the app on your computer and tv connected devices. You don’t have to get fancy. I had trouble getting it setup to recognize and remember my library server address at first, but somehow I got it to work. I don’t like the UI though, and just use PLEX instead.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't see how this is giving up though. Been doing this to close to two decades in one form of another and I wouldn't consider any other way. Except kodi instead of plexus here.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I mean, steam made it work with games, you telling me that 6-7 of these giant media companies can't get it to work for video? The giving up part is that you have to embrace piracy (again?) to get to acceptable levels of service per dollar

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Until Plex gets unbearable as well. They have been getting a lot shittier lately.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Other server software are available of course. The concept stays the same though. Very much recommend doing this. I'm halfway there, running Plex on my desktop PC and watching on my TV and other devices at home. Very comfortable setup. But I wish I had a small computer like a Pi or something, and a NAS to hold my drives. That way my desktop PC could rest.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Personally I was a fan of buying something like a Dell optiplex as my my NAS and Pihole but I do wish I had a better enclosure for the drives as any truly good one seems to be hundreds of dollars and mildly defeats the idea of self hosting being cheaper.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I just use an old crappy hand-me-down mid-tower gaming case I stuffed some drives into. As long as you can keep them cool, dusted, and away from vibrations (with HDDs), plenty of (used?)cases will have enough HDD slots to get you started.

    Also old rackmount servers on ebay have plenty of slots I hear, but rackmount fans are waaaaay louder.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Room is my main issue. Living in an apartment I can't have large boxes/computers just standing anywhere. So it has to be very small and quiet. 😅 Pi should be perfect. Maybe mount it underneath my desk where my desktop PC is or something. 👍

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Right on, that makes sense!

    If you're not planning on storing absolutely tons of data at first, you can also squeeze a lot into so-called "1 liter PCs". Traditional platform, a little more power and room than a Pi, and you can neatly tuck them away!

    I hear they float around eBay quite readily these days.

    Sadly haven't been hearing the very best things about the Pi 5, but earlier ones can do well as little servers.

    I've been learning a lot from the self hosted podcast lately haha. Also one of the hosts runs this site (which I happened to find first) that can be pretty helpful!

    https://perfectmediaserver.com/

    I remember some folks on reddit saying USB isn't the most reliable connection for long-term drives, but I'm not 100% sure what that was about. Maybe the connectors wear out?

    Perhaps someone who knows more can enlighten me.

    Best of luck! I hope you have a lot of fun. 😁

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I still get Roku recommendations on plex content from my Apple TV. They are doing content recognition off of the hdmi input

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Protip: destroy your 'smart' TV.

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    You go ahead and destroy something that cost you hundreds of dollars. Be it a TV or cans of Bud Light, I'm not going to destroy something I already got out of some need for a moral victory.

    I hate 'smart' TVs. I wish they didn't exist. But telling someone to destroy the one they already had- meaning that if they want to watch TV, they'll just have to buy another- doesn't really make much sense to me.

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