Lifebandit666

I'm not quite a noob. I run an Arr stack on my PC and I'm going to be transferring it to a dedicated server along with Home Assistant and whatnot next week.

My question is, what's so good about Jellyfin? Why does it always get recommended over Plex? Plex seems to be working just fine so I just don't get why Jellyfin may be better.

Is it just that it's free and open source? Coz while I'm totally down with that, I don't pay for Plex and it seems to be working just fine.

Currently I have a pi4b running Home Assistant, Adguard, influx db, Maria db, Grafana, node red...

I have a pi3b running my main Adguard and Raspotify.

My main Pi can't handle Adguard and HA together, keeps crashing. So I just bought a Dell Optiplex 7050 mini to be an actual home server instead of having everything running as Home Assistant add-ons.

Planning on using it for Arr, Plex, HA, anything else I can think of, with my Pis being my Adguard and Raspotify instances and maybe get some Bluetooth tracking going in the house while I'm at it.

Might run a little Minecraft server for the kids too

I paid £50 last year to watch Limp Bizkit at the same venue.

Long and short of it is that I used to get beaten up because of my music choices and style of dress in this town, in Yorkshire, in the UK.

Not far away Sophie Lancaster got beaten to death from the same thing.

Now I'm seeing sold out shows for the bands I was beaten for listening to, in my hometown.

So yeah I'm going, and I'm gonna be going mental in that moshpit.

I've paid £50 to see Korn this year. Tickets are now going for £200.

Yes

Thanks for the correction. I've lurked in here and the Reddit one back before the time we don't talk about, but I have no clue when it comes to hardware. I got given a PC to game on and was talking to my mate about buying server bits, and mentioned getting i7 processors. He told me it would be more powerful than my gaming rig because that's only i5s.

This makes more sense. So I can get an i3-7xxx quad core mini PC and try upgrade the RAM and storage.

I have a bunch of ram sticks in a bottom drawer and some HDDs I've never managed to boot yet, so I have things to play with... I just don't know what they are or if they work.

I love to tinker though. This all sounds like lots of fun

Hey no you answered a bunch of questions I had there. So I'm looking for an i7 with lots of RAM. Thanks that's excellent

I'm in the market for a nas or thinclient for these kinds of things, an upgrade for my RPi Home Assistant.

I'm stuck at hardware at the moment and think a cheap 2bay NAS is probably the way to go. My concern is that I won't be able to run all the things on a NAS mainly because I'm clueless. This community talks in maths (as Radiohead say) so half the time I'm trying to decipher all the LXCs and other acronyms.

Anyway, I think I need to learn PROXMOX or Unraid so your comment has me interested.

My question to you is this: since your server is plugged in via ethernet, can you access the Windows VM via web interface? Or does it require a screen, keyboard, mouse, etc?

I think I'm gonna be running HA in a VM, along with Adguard and maybe LMS in docker containers, then probably a Windows VM for Arr and Plex. I assume all these things will have their own port but I'm just not 100% about the actual Windows VM

Click and Collect is THE SHIT. I roll up, sit in my car for 5 minutes with my Rubik's cube, and some poor souls destroyed employee comes over to my car, takes my name and wheels my shopping out to the car.

I thank him/her and throw it in my boot, then I fuck off home for a brew.

I've just bought a 7800 because it can replace my Sky Router apparently with a little tinkering. I have an Openwrt router running as an AP in my loft but was gonna leave this on stock firmware just because I tried to use the Openwrt as DHCP and it didn't seem to want to work, maybe I just don't understand it well enough.

All I really want to do is point at my Adaway servers, so I'll be able to do that with the stock firmware.

Anything is better than what Sky have me locked down to.

I want it on my gravestone

Install Plex on your media server. Install Plex on your Phone.

Point Plex at your media on your server.

See if it works on your phone.

If it does, install Plex on your Xbox.