Pokemon is driving me to want a Plex Server. (lemmygrad.ml)

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My 2.5 year old loves watching classic Pokemon. I'll be honest, so do I. But have you tried doing that? It's fucking insane.

The first half of S1 is on Netflix
The second half is on Amazon but you need an extra subscription to watch it.
The theird season (johto) is also Amazon.
The 4th is no where but Archive.org of all places... Which is called Johto Champions, so it really feels like the end of the season but it's another 52 episodes!

You would think pokemon.com would have all this (they have a lot, and it's all free) but they don't!

Seeing S4 (is that even right?) On Archive.org is really pushing me to want to build a Plex server. Having all this content in one place would be very nice.

I do IT work by day, and I have some older 2TB platter drives from a retired camera server laying around. What's the easiest way to get my foot in the door? Do I save up some $$ for a Synology box?

Love to get your input!

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Jellyfin, not Plex ;)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A close friend of mine has a Plex server, and set it up for the exact same reason lol - he's got a ~5 year old whose TV interests of just a handful of different franchise span like 100 streaming services.

Dude said 'fuck that noise' and set sail.

Kinda awesome that a key driving force for piracy is just parents placating their toddlers, lol.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Most TVs can read from a usb drive directly; I used to load up all the the seasons of Pokémon onto a external hdd, usb plug it into the tv and just watch it directly

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How many drives do you have laying around? Synologys are nice (I have 2) but they’re a little pricey. You could go with one of the plus units and run Plex directly from there.

One of my coworkers got a TerraMaster NAS and installed Xpenology (basically the synology OS) on it. There hardware is a little cheaper.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I think I salvaged like 6 of them. I'd have to dig them out of a box for a good count.

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