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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PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months agoI ended up giving up and just putting a Linux PC attached to my TV as a media center. I host plex on it.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 6 months 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
nevetsg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I still watch TV through a Laptop running Windows Media Centre. MS have given up on trying to kill it. The Microsoft remote has seen better days but is still functioning.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Until Plex gets unbearable as well. They have been getting a lot shittier lately.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
There’s always Kodi! You don’t have to update your media server software.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Nah, I’ll just switch to Jellyfin.
victorz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 months ago
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.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 months ago
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.
Z4rK@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They hit my threshold of shittiness some years back and I’ve been enjoying Jellyfin ever since. It’s a much better alternative for most!
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
The shark’s in the tank and they’re putting their waterskis on
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Plex is a great example of how proprietary software will inevitably become exploitative, and only purely Free Software systems can ever be trustworthy in the long term.
frokie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I still get Roku recommendations on plex content from my Apple TV. They are doing content recognition off of the hdmi input
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I use a dumb tv. Old 1080I tube tv.
frokie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Uff between ads and interlaced content?? I’d still try to find a dumb 1080p…
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Interlacing only sucks on progressive TVs because they have to interpolate and scale the Missing information causing artifacting, watching interlaced content on an interlaced television is actually unnoticeable from a progressive display in my opinion, perhaps less sharp, but still.
vox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
or just get a cheap-ass android box (like xiaomi or google)
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Honestly, I’m just using a cheap Android TV box with stremio and smart tube. Those two apps pretty much cover everything I’d wanna watch. Those $20 Walmart ones are super easy to root/bootloader unlock too, so you can put lineageOS on it if you want
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
This is the way (Jellyfin here)
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I’m new to all this. Got any recommendations how to learn about Jellyfin?
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
while often outdated, there are youtube tutorials. you could buy a cheap thinkcentre or set up a virtual machine to try it out.
personally, i run truenas scale with jellyfin as an “app” on my old PC.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
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
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
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?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I’m using OMV headless and have zero luck with Docker or Portainer.
Is it going to be easier to set up Docker using Raspbian with a GUI?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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 up recognize and remember me library server address at first, but somehow I got it to work. I don’t like the UI though, and just use PLEX instead.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Of use jellyfin, but I have too many friends with only consoles that rely on my server. Sigh