Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
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[–] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

....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? :-(

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  • [+] 18 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why WG to the home if you have your Plex Server with you?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is it possible to condense it all down to one Pi unit?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Do you use a sim card for the router? How much data do you have?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    @samdoran @plex @caseyliss why does the raspberry pi need a wifi antenna?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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